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  1. Differential NRAMP1gene’s D543N genotype frequency: Increased risk of contracting tuberculosis among Venezuelan populations
  2. The Development of a Multiplex PCR Assay for Fast and Cost-Effective Identification of the Five Most Significant Pathogenic Prototheca Species
  3. Co-Harboring of Beta-Lactamases and mcr-1 Genes in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae from Healthy Carriers and Backyard Animals in Rural Communities in Ecuador
  4. First Case Reports of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Lung Disease in Ecuador: Important Lessons to Learn
  5. Antimicrobial resistance and genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae in Venezuela
  6. Molecular Tracking of the Origin of Vesicular Stomatitis Outbreaks in 2004 and 2018, Ecuador
  7. Immune Biomarker Combinations for Diagnosis Monitoring of Latent Tuberculosis Infection
  8. Molecular Tracking of The Origin of Vesicular Stomatitis Outbreaks in 2004 and 2018, Ecuador
  9. High-performance LAMP-based method for human sex identification using Y chromosome-specific genetic markers
  10. High Prevalence of Prototheca bovis Infection in Dairy Cattle with Chronic Mastitis in Ecuador
  11. The Re-Identification of Previously Unidentifiable Clinical Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Isolates Shows Great Species Diversity and the Presence of Other Acid-Fast Genera
  12. Lasting SARS-CoV-2 specific IgG Antibody response in health care workers from Venezuela, 6 months after vaccination with Sputnik V
  13. The metabolic hormone adiponectin affects the correlation between nutritional status and pneumococcal vaccine response in vulnerable indigenous children
  14. Worldwide Prevalence of mcr-mediated Colistin-Resistance Escherichia coli in Isolates of Clinical Samples, Healthy Humans, and Livestock—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  15. Diagnostic Potential of the Serological Response to Synthetic Peptides from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Antigens for Discrimination Between Active and Latent Tuberculosis Infections
  16. Editorial: Recent Advances in Bovine Tuberculosis
  17. Immunoglobulin G antibody response to the Sputnik V vaccine: previous SARS-CoV-2 seropositive individuals may need just one vaccine dose
  18. Author Correction: Lipoarabinomannan antigenic epitope differences in tuberculosis disease subtypes
  19. Pneumococcal Carriage Among Indigenous Kichwa Children From the Ecuadorian Andes After the 10-Valent Pneumococcal Vaccine Introduction
  20. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Colonization Among Health Care Workers of a Tertiary Hospital in Ecuador and Associated Risk Factors
  21. ESAT-6 and Ag85A Synthetic Peptides as Candidates for an Immunodiagnostic Test in Children with a Clinical Suspicion of Tuberculosis
  22. Human Q Fever on the Guiana Shield and Brazil: Recent Findings and Remaining Questions
  23. Pre-existing T-cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in unexposed healthy controls in Ecuador, as detected with a COVID-19 Interferon-Gamma Release Assay
  24. Phenotypic and Genotypic Drug Susceptibility Assessment of Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Clinical Strains
  25. Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis var. africanum isolated from a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis in Brazil
  26. Most LAM Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Venezuela, but not SIT605, belong to the RDRio subfamily
  27. How TB and COVID-19 compare: an opportunity to integrate both control programmes
  28. Lipoarabinomannan antigenic epitope differences in tuberculosis disease subtypes
  29. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage among guinea pigs raised as livestock in Ecuador
  30. Odontogenic cutaneous sinus tracts due to infection with nontuberculous mycobacteria: a report of three cases
  31. Population structure and genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ecuador
  32. Dental Unit Waterlines in Quito and Caracas Contaminated with Nontuberculous Mycobacteria: A Potential Health Risk in Dental Practice
  33. Fast, Simple, and Cheap: the Kudoh-Ogawa Swab Method as an Alternative to the Petroff–Lowenstein-Jensen Method for Culturing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  34. Infección por virus HTLV-1/2 confirmada por serología y detección de provirus en pacientes ecuatorianos de paraparesis espástica tropical
  35. Nasopharyngeal Microbiota Profiles in Rural Venezuelan Children Are Associated With Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Infections
  36. A rare case of spinal tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis. Is zoonotic tuberculosis underdiagnosed?
  37. Newly sequenced genomes of four Bacillus Calmette Guerin vaccines
  38. Drug susceptibility patterns of rapidly growing mycobacteria isolated from skin and soft tissue infections in Venezuela
  39. A high prevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV 1/2) infection among Afro-descendants, Esmeraldas province, Ecuador – need for the implementation of surveys and control programs
  40. Prevalence, Drug Resistance, and Genotypic Diversity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Family in Ecuador
  41. Control of paratuberculosis: who, why and how. A review of 48 countries
  42. Exploring the “Latin American Mediterranean” family and the RDRio lineage in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Paraguay, Argentina and Venezuela
  43. Serology for Neosporosis, Q fever and Brucellosis to assess the cause of abortion in two dairy cattle herds in Ecuador
  44. A First Insight into the katG and rpoB Gene Mutations of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains from Ecuador
  45. Serological evidence of Coxiella burnetii infection in cattle and farm workers: is Q fever an underreported zoonotic disease in Ecuador?
  46. Evaluation of the transcriptional immune biomarkers in peripheral blood from Warao indigenous associate with the infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  47. Country-wide rapid screening for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing sublineage in Ecuador using a single-nucleotide polymorphism-polymerase chain reaction method
  48. Diagnostic accuracy of combinations of serological biomarkers for identifying clinical tuberculosis
  49. Decreasing Hepatitis B and No Hepatitis C in Warao Indigenous Population
  50. Comparação e avaliação de métodos quantitativos para determinar a susceptibilidade antimicrobiana de cepas do complexo Mycobacterium abscessos
  51. Biochemical Characterization of β-Lactamases from Mycobacterium abscessus Complex and Genetic Environment of the β-Lactamase-Encoding Gene
  52. Mycobacterium szulgai: an unusual cause of skin and soft tissue infection after breast augmentation
  53. Nasopharyngeal carriage of respiratory pathogens in Warao Amerindians: significant relationship with stunting
  54. Vaccine Acceptance Among Warao Amerindians: A Qualitative Approach
  55. Use of green fluorescent protein labeled non-tuberculous mycobacteria to evaluate the activity quaternary ammonium compound disinfectants and antibiotics
  56. Introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in an isolated pneumococcal vaccine-naïve indigenous population
  57. Stunting correlates with high salivary and serum antibody levels after 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination of Venezuelan Amerindian children
  58. The Evolving HIV-1 Epidemic in Warao Amerindians Is Dominated by an Extremely High Frequency of CXCR4-Utilizing Strains
  59. Source investigation of two outbreaks of skin and soft tissue infection byMycobacterium abscessussubsp.abscessusin Venezuela
  60. Molecular mechanisms of clarithromycin resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus complex clinical isolates from Venezuela
  61. Mycobacterium bovis in Panama, 2013
  62. Agreement between QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube and the tuberculin skin test and predictors of positive test results in Warao Amerindian pediatric tuberculosis contacts
  63. Immunogenicity of a 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) and impact on carriage in Venezuelan children at risk of invasive pneumococcal diseases
  64. Recurrent wheezing is associated with intestinal protozoan infections in Warao Amerindian children in Venezuela: a cross-sectional survey
  65. Acetic Acid, the Active Component of Vinegar, Is an Effective Tuberculocidal Disinfectant
  66. Influence of Bacille Calmette-Guérin on tuberculin skin testing in Venezuelan Amerindians in high tuberculosis burden areas
  67. Post hoc power calculations and statistical analysis of case control studies: Reply to Riboldi et al.
  68. Enzymatic and endpoint methods yield comparable adenosine deaminase activity in pleural fluid samples
  69. Low Child Survival in Warao Amerindians: A Multidimensional Poverty Perspective
  70. Parasites, Malnutrition, and Anemia in Venezuelan Children
  71. Serum samples can be substituted by plasma samples for the diagnosis of paratuberculosis
  72. Respiratory infections in Eñepa Amerindians are related to malnutrition and Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage
  73. High prevalence of asthma symptoms in Warao Amerindian children in Venezuela is significantly associated with open-fire cooking: a cross-sectional observational study
  74. HIV-1 epidemic in Warao Amerindians from Venezuela
  75. Immunologic evaluation and validation of methods using synthetic peptides derived from Mycobacterium tuberculosis for the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection
  76. A predictive signature gene set for discriminating active from latent tuberculosis in Warao Amerindian children
  77. Understanding the relationship between Mycobacterium bovis spoligotypes from cattle in Latin American Countries
  78. Caracterización molecular de Pseudomonas aeruginosa resistentes a carbapenémicos provenientes de cuatro hospitales de Venezuela
  79. Helminths and skewed cytokine profiles increase tuberculin skin test positivity in Warao Amerindians
  80. Pharmacokinetics of anti-tuberculosis drugs in Venezuelan children younger than 16 years of age: supportive evidence for the implementation of revised WHO dosing recommendations
  81. Introductions of HIV-1 in Venezuelan Amerindian Warao Population
  82. Conspicuous multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis cluster strains do not trespass country borders in Latin America and Spain
  83. Patients Exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection with a Prominent IgE Response
  84. Sudden death related to tuberculous coronary arteritis
  85. High Prevalence of Acute Respiratory Tract Infections Among Warao Amerindian Children in Venezuela in Relation to Low Immunization Coverage and Chronic Malnutrition
  86. Carriage and invasive isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Caracas, Venezuela: the relative invasiveness of serotypes and vaccine coverage
  87. Evaluation of Fluoromycobacteriophages for Detecting Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  88. Seguimiento de un brote de infección en tejido blando causado por Mycobacterium abscessus posterior a la mesoterapia en Venezuela
  89. In vitro levels of cytokines in response to purified protein derivative (PPD) antigen in a population with high prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis
  90. The use of quaternary ammonium disinfectants selects for persisters at high frequency from some species of non-tuberculous mycobacteria and may be associated with outbreaks of soft tissue infections
  91. Concomitant Mycobacterium avium Infection and Hodgkin’s Disease in a Lymph Node from an HIV-negative Child
  92. Mycobacterium tuberculosis ecology in Venezuela: epidemiologic correlates of common spoligotypes and a large clonal cluster defined by MIRU-VNTR-24
  93. Multiplex PCR reveals a high rate of nasopharyngeal pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate vaccine serotypes co-colonizing indigenous Warao children in Venezuela
  94. Evaluation of the Kudoh swab method for the culturing ofMycobacterium tuberculosisin rural areas
  95. Characterization of IS6110 insertions in the dnaA–dnaN intergenic region of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates
  96. Use of anabolic-androgenic steroids masking the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis: a case report
  97. IS6110 in oriC affects the morphology and growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and attenuates virulence in mice
  98. The effect of Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine on tuberculin reactivity in indigenous children from communities with high prevalence of tuberculosis
  99. Instrument processing with lauryl dimethyl benzyl ammonium bromide: A challenge for patient safety
  100. 24-Locus MIRU-VNTR genotyping is a useful tool to study the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis among Warao Amerindians in Venezuela
  101. The diagnosis of two cases of cutaneous ulcer caused by infection withMycobacterium haemophilum: direct identification in a clinical sample by polymerase chain reaction-restriction endonuclease analysis
  102. Human Mycobacterium bovis infection in ten Latin American countries
  103. CSE Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development Pneumococcal Carriage among Indigenous Warao Children in Venezuela: Serotypes, Susceptibility Patterns, and Molecular Epidemiology
  104. Mycobacterium cosmeticum , Ohio and Venezuela
  105. Mycobacterium tuberculosis transporter MmpL7 is a potential substrate for kinase PknD
  106. Mycobacterium bovis cultured from commercially pasteurized cows’ milk: Laboratory cross-contamination
  107. A Simple Algorithm for the Diagnosis of AIDS-Associated Genitourinary Tuberculosis
  108. Inactivación de micobacterias con desinfectantes registrados como tuberculicidas
  109. Infecciones en tejidos blandos por micobacterias no tuberculosas secundarias a mesoterapia. ¿Cuánto vale la belleza?
  110. Disseminated Mycobacterium mucogenicum Infection in a Patient with Idiopathic CD4+ T Lymphocytopenia Manifesting as Fever of Unknown Origin
  111. Mycobacterium cosmeticum sp. nov., a novel rapidly growing species isolated from a cosmetic infection and from a nail salon
  112. Study of the antibody response against Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in Warao Amerindian children in Venezuela
  113. IatrogenicMycobacterium simiaeSkin Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient
  114. Snapshot of Moving and Expanding Clones of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Their Global Distribution Assessed by Spoligotyping in an International Study
  115. Global Distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Spoligotypes
  116. The glucose permease of the phosphotransferase system of Bacillus subtilis: evidence for IIGlcand IIIGlcdomains
  117. Cloning, expression and release of native and mutant cloacin DF13 immunity protein
  118. Studies on well-coupled Photosystem I-enriched subchloroplast vesicles — characteristics and reinterpretation of single-turnover cyclic electron transfer