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Clinical and Genetic Analysis of Costa Rican Patients With Parkinson's Disease
(2021)
Background: Most research in genomics of Parkinson’s disease (PD) has been done
in subjects of European ancestry, leading to sampling bias and leaving Latin American
populations underrepresented. We sought to clinically ...
Vejigas animales como sitios para oviposición y desarrollo de moscas (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha) en el contexto de una tradición en Barva de Heredia, Costa Rica
Animal bladders as oviposition and breeding sites for flies after festivities in Heredia, Costa Rica
(2008-06-01)
Se realizó un recuento del número de vejigas dispersas en 15 manzanas del centro urbano de Barva, Heredia, luego de la celebración de las mascaradas, actividad enmarcada en las fiestas patronales de la ciudad. Adicionalmente ...
Hospital disinfectant efficacy testing: Experimental evidence towards the requirement of common international regulatory framework, the case of Costa Rica
(2023)
Background: Costa Rica, as many developing countries around the world, lacks a specific regulatory framework for hospital disinfectant efficacy testing. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of disinfectant ...
Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of Clostridium difficile in a national geriatric hospital in Costa Rica
(2018-08)
Background: the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) is changing rapidly worldwide; knowledge on the genotypes of C. difficile circulating in specialized geriatric hospitals and their resistance to ...
Estudio exploratorio de casos y controles acerca del diagnóstico de la Esferocitosis Hereditaria en Costa Rica
(2011)
La Esferocitosis Hereditaria (EH) representa una de las causas más frecuentes dentro de los desórdenes hemolíticos hereditarios, en donde los signos clínicos son muy heterogéneos. Este padecimiento posee un patrón hereditario ...
Molecular Detection of Bartonella Species in Fleas Collected from Dogs and Cats from Costa Rica
(2015-09)
The bacterial genus Bartonella includes several species with zoonotic potential, some of which are common in domestic dogs and cats, as well as in their fleas. Because there is no previous information about the presence ...
Estandarización de un protocolo de inmunohistoquímica para detectar microglia del cerebro de ratas de la cepa Wistar
Standarization of a protocol of immunohistochemistry for the detection of brain microglia in wistar rats
(2017-07)
Objetivo: Estandarizar un protocolo de inmunohistoquímica que se ha utilizado ampliamente en ratones de la cepa C57BL/6J para identificar microglia del sistema nervioso central en ratas de la cepa Wistar. Materiales y ...
Antimicrobial activity of different sodium and potassium salts of carboxylic acid against some common foodborne pathogens and spoilage-associated bacteria
Actividad antimicrobiana de diferentes sales de ácidos carboxílicos de sodio y potasio contra algunos microorganismos patógenos y de deterioro asociados a alimentos
(2018)
Cleaning and disinfection represent the most important activities associated with the elimination of dirt and microorganisms at food processing plants. Improper procedures may lead to cross contamination of food leading ...
Membrane-damaging and cytotoxic sphingomyelinases and phospholipases
(2015-06-05)
This chapter presents an overview of the classification, structure, and main physiopathological activities of bacterial sphingomyelinases and phospholipases, providing examples of their roles as virulence factors in several ...
Extracellular vesicles of trypomastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi induce changes in ubiquitin-related processes, cell-signaling pathways and apoptosis
(2023)
Chagas disease is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. The disease has an acute and a chronic phase in which approximately 30% of the chronic patients suffer from heart disease and/or gastrointestinal symptoms. ...