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Exposure of dogs to spotted fever group rickettsiae in urban sites associated with human rickettsioses in Costa Rica
(2016-07)
The zoonotic transmission cycles of Rickettsia rickettsii and other spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae
in Latin America have usually been associated with rural or sylvatic environments, although domestic
dogs can be ...
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 ...
Global genetic diversity of Aedes aegypti
(2016-11)
Mosquitoes, especially Aedes aegypti, are becoming important models for studying invasion biology. We characterized genetic variation at 12 microsatellite loci in 79 populations of Ae. aegypti from 30 countries in six ...
Evaluación de la resistencia a insecticidas en cepas de Aedes aegypti (Diptera Culicidae) de la Región Caribe de Costa Rica
Evaluation of insecticide resistance in strains of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Caribbean region of Costa Rica
(2016-01)
Introducción: el dengue y chikungunya son virosis antroponóticas transmitidas por Aedes aegypti que afectan extensas áreas del continente americano incluyendo Costa Rica. La reciente introducción del virus Zika representa ...
Detection of rickettsiae in fleas and ticks from areas of Costa Rica with history of spotted fever group rickettsioses
(2016-10)
Outbreaks of spotted fevers have been reported in Costa Rica since the 1950s, although vectors responsible for transmission to humans have not been directly identified. In this study, species of Rickettsia were detected ...
Reevaluación de los índices larvales para Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) en dos localidades con historia epidemiológica de dengue, Costa Rica
Reevaluation of the larval índices for Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in two localities with an epidemiological histoy of dengue, Costa Rica
(2013-06-01)
Introducción. En Costa Rica, el dengue es la principal enfermedad de trasmisión vectorial.
Esta afecta ecosistema urbanos como La Carpio y La Gran Puntarenas, donde Aedes aegypti es altamente prevalente.
Objetivo. Reevaluar ...
Epidemiological characterization of incident cases of Rickettsia infection in rural areas of Urabá region, Colombia
(2018-10-31)
Introduction Most of the studies related to rickettsial infection in Colombia are cross-sectional because of the challenge in conducting prospective studies on infectious disease that may have a difficult diagnosis. Although ...
A review of the genus Rickettsia in Central America
(2018)
In this paper, we present a historical review of rickettsiosis in Central America and also the most recent findings of Rickettsia in ectoparasites. All countries of Central America have records of rickettsiosis. Regarding ...
Spotted fever group Rickettsiae in Ticks from Missouri
(2018)
Tick-borne rickettsioses pose a major health threat among vector-borne infections in Missouri but there are some uncertainties regarding the vector competence and range of tick species, as well as the virulence of certain ...
Caracterización de los sitios de multiplicación de Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) en el caserío “La Carpio”, San José, Costa Rica durante la estación seca del 2003
Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) breeding sites in the neighborhood “La Carpio”, San José, Costa Rica during the dry season of 2003.
(2004-06-01)
El primer brote de dengue en San José, la capital de Costa Rica, fue documentado hasta el año 2002 en la comunidad La Carpio, donde las condiciones climáticas y sociales son adecuadas para la transmisión viral. La ...