• Understanding the relationship between Mycobacterium bovis spoligotypes from cattle in Latin American Countries 

      Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Arriaga, Camila; Barandiaran, Soledad; Cobos-Marín, Laura; de Waard, Jacobus; Estrada-Garcia, Iris; Figueiredo, Telma; Figueroa, Alvaro; Gimenez, Francisco; Gomes, Harrison M.; Gonzalez-y-Merchand, Jorge A.; Macías, Analía; Milián-Suazo, Feliciano; Rodríguez, Cesar Alejandro Rosales; Santillán, Marco Antonio; Suffys, Philip Noel; Trangoni, Marcos David; Zarraga, Ana Maria; Cataldi, Angel Adrian (Elsevier, 2013-02)
      Spoligotyping is the most frequently used method for genotyping isolates of Mycobacterium bovis worldwide. In the current work, we compared spoligotypes from 1684 M. bovis isolates from Argentina (816), Brazil (412), Chile ...
    • Unveiling the genetic basis of Sclerotinia head rot resistance in sunflower 

      Filippi, Carla Valeria; Zubrzycki, Jeremias Enrique; Di Rienzo, Julio Alejandro; Quiroz, Facundo Jose; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Alvarez, Daniel; Maringolo, Carla Andrea; Escande, Alberto; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Heinz, Ruth Amelia; Paniego, Norma Beatriz; Lia, Veronica Viviana (BMC, 2020-07)
      Background: Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a necrotrophic fungus that causes Sclerotinia head rot (SHR) in sunflower, with epidemics leading to severe yield losses. In this work, we present an association mapping (AM) approach ...
    • Ursolic acid : a novel antiviral compound inhibiting rotavirus infection in vitro 

      Tohmé, M. J.; Giménez, M. Cecilia; Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Colombo, M. I.; Delgui, Laura Ruth (Elsevier, 2019-11)
      Rotavirus is one of the leading causes of severe acute gastroenteritis in children under 5 years of age, mainly affecting developing countries. Once the disease is acquired, no specific treatment is available; as such, the ...
    • Use of molecular tools for the diagnosis of rangeliosis by Rangelia vitalii in Argentina: A case report 

      Borras, Pablo; Salvador, F.; Rinaldi, V.; Armitano, Rita Inés; Farber, Marisa Diana; Sanchez, R.; Mori, L.; Guillemi, Eliana Carolina (Elsevier, 2020-07)
      Vector-borne pathogens are responsible for serious emerging diseases and Rangelia vitalii, the etiologic agent of canine rangeliosis, is one of the most pathogenic tick-borne pathogens for dogs in South America. This ...
    • Use of touch-down polymerase chain reaction to enhance the sensitivity of Mycobacterium bovis detection 

      Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Meikle, Virginia; Bernardelli, Amelia; Abdala, Alejandro Ariel; Tarabla, Hector Dante; Romano, Maria Isabel; Cataldi, Angel Adrian (Sage Publications, 2005-05)
      The confirmatory diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) in animal samples is carried out by culture in Stonebrink media. However, culture is very slow because of the extremely long duplication time of the bacillus and ...
    • Utilization of molecular and conventional methods for the identification of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from different water sources 

      Tortone, Claudia Andrea; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Gioffre, Andrea; Oriani, Delia Susana (Wolters Kluwer - Medknow, 2018-03)
      Background: The environment is the nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) reservoir, opportunistic pathogens of great diversity and ubiquity, which is observed in the constant description of new species capable of causing ...
    • Validation of reference genes for quantitative PCR in Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense L.) under glyphosate stress 

      Ulrich, Maria Noelia; Muñiz-Padilla, Esteban; Corach, Alejandra; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Tosto, Daniela Sandra (MDPI, 2021-08)
      Weeds are one of the main causes of the decrease in crop yields, with Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense L.) being one of the most significant. Weeds can be controlled by herbicides, but some have developed resistance. ...
    • Variation in the VP1 Gene of Foot-And-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype a Associated with Epidemiological Characteristics of Outbreaks in the 2001 Epizootic in Argentina 

      Pérez, Andrés M.; Konig, Guido Alberto; Spath, Ernesto Juan; Thurmond, Mark C. (Sage Publishing, 2008)
      A mixed binomial Bayesian regression model was used to quantify the relation between nucleotide differences in the VP1 gene of Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) serotype A, and epidemiologic characteristics of the outbreaks ...
    • Vineyard environments influence Malbec grapevine phenotypic traits and DNA methylation patterns in a clone‑dependent way 

      Varela, Anabella; Ibañez, Verónica N.; Alonso, Rodrigo; Zavallo, Diego; Asurmendi, Sebastian; Gomez Talquenca, Gonzalo Sebastián; Marfil, Carlos Federico; Berli, Federico Javier (Springer Verlag, 2021-01)
      Clonal selection and vegetative propagation determine low genetic variability in grapevine cultivars, although it is common to observe diverse phenotypes. Environmental signals may induce epigenetic changes altering gene ...
    • ViralPlaque: a Fiji macro for automated assessment of viral plaque statistics 

      Cacciabue, Marco Polo; Curra, Anabella Paola; Gismondi, Maria Ines (PeerJ, 2019-09)
      laque assay has been used for a long time to determine infectious titers and characterize prokaryotic and eukaryotic viruses forming plaques. Indeed, plaque morphology and dimensions can provide information regarding the ...
    • Virulence factors of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex 

      Forrellad, Marina Andrea; Klepp, Laura Ines; Gioffre, Andrea; Sabio y Garcia, Julia Veronica; Morbidoni, Hector R.; Santangelo, María De La Paz; Cataldi, Angel Adrian; Bigi, Fabiana (Taylor & Francis, 2013-01)
      The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) consists of closely related species that cause tuberculosis in both humans and animals. This illness, still today, remains to be one of the leading causes of morbidity and ...
    • Virus infection elevates transcriptional activity of miR164a promoter in plants 

      Bazzini, Ariel Alejandro; Almasia, Natalia Ines; Manacorda, Carlos Augusto; Mongelli, Vanesa Claudia; Conti, Gabriela; Maroniche, Guillermo Andrés; Rodriguez, Maria Cecilia; Distefano, Ana Julia; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Del Vas, Mariana; Asurmendi, Sebastian (BioMed Central, 2009-12)
      Background: Micro RNAs (miRs) constitute a large group of endogenous small RNAs that have crucial roles in many important plant functions. Virus infection and transgenic expression of viral proteins alter accumulation and ...
    • VP1 protein of Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) impairs baculovirus surface display 

      Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Maroniche, Guillermo Andrés; Alfonso, Victoria; Molinari, Maria Paula; Taboga, Oscar Alberto (Elsevier, 2013-07)
      The Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) causes important economical losses in livestock farming. In order to develop a novel subunit vaccine against FMDV, we constructed recombinant baculoviruses that display the protein ...