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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 ...
Factores asociados con la incidencia de dengue en Costa Rica
Factors associated with incidence of dengue in Costa Rica
(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 ...
Culicidofauna asociada con contenedores artificiales en la comunidad “La Carpio”, Costa Rica
(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
(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) ...
Rickettsia felis in Ctenocephalides felis from Guatemala and Costa Rica
(2012)
Rickettsia felis is an emerging human pathogen associated primarily with the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis.In this study, we investigated the presence of Rickettsia felis in C. felis from Guatemala and Costa Rica. ...
Infestación múltiple por ácaros ectoparásitos en conejos de crianza
Multiple infestation by ectoparasitic mites in breeding rabbits
(2011-06-01)
Six breeding rabbits (New Zealand strain) were observed with crusted and pruritic dermal lesions. These lesions were located predominantly in ears, nose, nails and feet. Dermal material collected by scraping showed the ...
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.
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 ...
‘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 ...
Nuevos registros de Aedes albopictus (Skuse) en cuatro localidades de Costa Rica
(2017)
Introducción. Aedes albopictus (Skuse) es un vector de arbovirus ampliamente distribuido. En Costa Rica, la expansión geográfica de Ae.albopictus se ha incrementado en la última década, por lo que es importante actualizar ...