• Brucella neotomae Infection in Humans, Costa Rica 

      Suárez Esquivel, Marcela; Ruiz Villalobos, Nazareth; Jiménez Rojas, César; Barquero Calvo, Elías; Chacón Díaz, Carlos; Víquez Ruiz, Eunice; Rojas Campos, Norman; Baker, Kate S.; Oviedo Sánchez, Gerardo; Amuy, Ernesto; Chaves Olarte, Esteban; Thomson, Nicholas R.; Moreno Robles, Edgardo; Guzmán Verri, Caterina (2017-06)
      Several species of Brucella are known to be zoonotic, but B. neotomae infection has been thought to be limited to wood rats. In 2008 and 2011, however, B. neotomae was isolated from cerebrospinal fluid of 2 men with ...
    • Zoonotic Agents in Feral Pigeons (Columba livia) from Costa Rica: Possible Improvements to Diminish Contagion Risks 

      Torres Mejía, Ana María; Rodríguez Sánchez, César; Duarte Martínez, Francisco; Jiménez Soto, Mauricio; Esperón Fajardo, Fernando; Blanco Peña, Kinndle (2018-01)
      Most studies on zoonotic agents in pigeons have been conducted in the Palearctic region, but the scarcity of data is notorious in the Neotropical region, where these birds can breed all year around and are in close contact ...