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Presencia de Trypanosoma minasense (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) en Alouatta palliata (Primates: Cebidae) de Costa Rica
Trypanosoma minasense (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) in Alouatta palliata (Primates: Cebidae) of Costa Rica
(2005)
A Trypanosoma from the howler monkey Alouatta palliata was studied. Measures, as well as its biological characteristics (mice infection and failure to infect Triatominae) identify this parasite as Trypanosoma minasense. ...
‘Candidatus Rickettsia nicoyana’: A novel Rickettsia species isolated from Ornithodoros knoxjonesi in Costa Rica
(2017-06)
Rickettsiae are intracellular bacteria commonly associated with hematophagous arthropods. Most of them have been described in hard ticks, but some have been found in soft ticks. Here we report the detection and isolation ...
Evaluación del nicho ecológico deformas larvales de Aedes aegypti y Culex quinquefasciatus (Díptera: Culicidae) en una comunidad urbana de San José, Costa Rica
(2007)
Observations related to the width and overlap of the ecological niche for larval forms of Aedes
aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus in artificial containers were performed using the data obtained
during two laval surveys ...
Demodicosis: una afección común de la piel en el ser humano
(2011-06-01)
La demodicosis es una afección dérmica común en el ser humano. Los agentes etiológicos son dos especies de ácaros demodícicos (Actinedidae: Demodicidae), a saber, Demodex folliculorum que se ubica en los folículos pilosos ...
Zika Virus (ZIKV): A New Emerging Pathogen Transmitted by Aedes Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Latin American Subcontinent
(2016-03-11)
Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) are two
species of synanthropic mosquitoes that are common in outdoor
and indoor domiciliary environments in tropical countries. Their
vectorial competence and ...
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 ...
Host-Feeding Patterns of the Mosquito Assemblage at Lomas Barbudal Biological Reserve, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
(2021-07)
Mosquito-borne pathogens have spread throughout tropical regions of the Western Hemisphere causing increased burden of disease in the region. Outbreaks of dengue fever, yellow fever, chikungunya, West Nile, and Zika have ...
Associations between urban structure and Aedes aegypti larval habitats in Puntarenas, Costa Rica
(2008-12)
Geospatial technologies have been increasingly applied to study vector-borne diseases, although their use in urban setting has been limited. In this study, high-resolution satellite imagery from QuickBird was analyzed to ...
Cuantificación de formas larvales de Synthesiomyia nudiseta (Diptera: Muscidae) como un criterio en el análisis del intervalo post mortem
Larval quantification of Synthesiomyia nudiseta (Diptera: Muscidae) as a criterion in analisis of the post-mortem interval in an experimental model
(2005)
El número de larvas de Synthesiomyia nudiseta (Diptera: Muscidae) encontradas in cadáveres fue evaluada como un criterio para la estimación del intervalo post-mortem (IPM) en un modelo con carcasas de conejo. Conejos (New ...
Policy Brief for Costa Rica 2021
(2021)
Since the 1980s Costa Rica has seen a continuous increase in surface
temperatures while precipitation has not registered a consistent
signal.1,2 There has not been an increase in water supply, but the rise
in temperatures ...