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Infección natural de Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus con Trypanosoma cruzi (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) en Costa Rica
Trypanosoma cruzi (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) natural infection in Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus from Costa Rica
(2004)
Un ejemplar hembra de T. rufotuberculatus fue colectado en el Parque Nacional "Manuel Antonio" (Puntarenas, Costa Rica). El análisis microscópico de su contenido intestinal mostró la presencia de formas de epimastigotos y ...
Expansion of Aedes albopictus Skull in Costa Rica
(2010-06-01)
A report of the Aedes albopictus expansion in Costa Rica is described as well as its epidemiological analysis.
Dengue in Costa Rica: the gap in local scientific research
Dengue en Costa Rica: la brecha en la investigación científica local
(2006)
Globalization has affected the reemergence of infectious diseases, with increased human travel and trade facilitating the introduction of diseases into new areas and the resurgence of diseases that had been eliminated in ...
Urban structure and dengue incidence in Puntarenas, Costa Rica
(2009-07-15)
Dengue is currently the most important arboviral disease globally and is usually associated with built environments in tropical areas. Remotely sensed information can facilitate the study of urban mosquito-borne diseases ...
Mapping the risk of Aedes aegypti larval habitats using tree cover in Puntarenas, Costa Rica
(2010-08)
Tree cover and other characteristics of urban structure have been associated in urban environments with abundance and productivity of Aedes aegypti and other mosquito larval habitats. Tree cover can conceal containers, ...
‘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 ...
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 ...