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Detection of rickettsiae in fleas and ticks from areas of Costa Rica with history of spotted fever group rickettsioses

Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana; Moreira Soto, Rolando Daniel; Calderón Arguedas, Ólger; Mata Somarribas, Carlos; Ortiz Tello, Jusara; Barbieri, Amália R. M.; Avendaño López, Adrián; Vargas Castro, Luis Esteban; Labruna, Marcelo B.; Hun Opfer, Ruchilia Laya; Taylor Castillo, Mayra Lizeth (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 ...

Zika Virus (ZIKV): A New Emerging Pathogen Transmitted by Aedes Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Latin American Subcontinent

Calderón Arguedas, Ólger; Moreira Soto, Rolando Daniel; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana (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 ...

Exposure of dogs to spotted fever group rickettsiae in urban sites associated with human rickettsioses in Costa Rica

Moreira Soto, Andrés; Carranza, Marco V.; Taylor Castillo, Mayra Lizeth; Calderón Arguedas, Ólger; Hun Opfer, Ruchilia Laya; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana (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 ...

Global genetic diversity of Aedes aegypti

Gloria Soria, Andrea; Ayala, Diego; Bheecarry, Ambicadutt; Calderón Arguedas, Ólger; Chadee, Dave D.; Chiappero, Marina; Coetzee, Maureen; Bin Elahee, Khouaildi; Fernández Salas, Ildefonso; Kamal, Hany A.; Kamgang, Basile; Khater, Emad I. M.; Kramer, Laura D.; Kramer, Vicki; López Solís, Alma; Lutomiah, Joel; Martins Jr, Ademir; Micieli, María Victoria; Paupy, Christophe; Ponlawat, Alongkot; Rahola, Nil; Rasheed, Syed Basit; Richardson, Joshua B.; Saleh, Amag A.; Sánchez Casas, Rosa María; Seixas, Gonçalo; Sousa, Carla A.; Tabachnick, Walter J.; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana; Powell, Jeffrey R. (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

Calderón Arguedas, Ólger; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana (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 ...

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

Calderón Arguedas, Ólger; Avendaño López, Adrián; Mora Pineda, Geovanny; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana (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 ...

Factores asociados con la incidencia de dengue en Costa Rica
Factors associated with incidence of dengue in Costa Rica

Mena Morales, Nelson; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana; Bonilla Carrión, Róger Enrique; Calderón Arguedas, Ólger (2011)

Objetivo. Determinar el grado de influencia de diferentes variables socioeconómicas, demográficas, geográficas y climáticas con respecto a la incidencia de dengue y dengue hemorrágico (D/DH) en Costa Rica durante el período ...

El Niño Southern Oscillation and vegetation dynamics as predictors of dengue fever cases in Costa Rica

Fuller, Douglas O.; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana; Beier, John C. (2009-03-04)

Dengue fever (DF) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are growing health concerns throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. This study focuses on Costa Rica, which experienced over 100 000 cases of DF/DHF from 2003 to ...

Culicidofauna asociada con contenedores artificiales en la comunidad “La Carpio”, Costa Rica

Calderón Arguedas, Ólger; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana; Solano Chinchilla, Mayra Emilia; Avendaño López, Adrián (2009-06-01)

Objetivo: Determinar las especies de mosquitos más frecuentes en “La Carpio”, primer comunidad del Área Metropolitana de San José en sufrir un brote por dengue. Métodos: Cuatro encuestas larvales fueron ...

Dengue vector (Aedes aegypti) larval habitats in an urban environment of Costa Rica analysed with ASTER and QuickBird imagery

Fuller, Douglas O.; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana; Calderón Arguedas, Ólger; Beier, John C. (2010-01-13)

Dengue fever is transmitted mainly by the mosquito species Aedes aegypti , which breeds in water-filled containers in tropical urban areas. In this study medium- and high-resolution satellite (ASTER and QuickBird) ...

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