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A novel approach to biological risk surveillance in occupational hygiene: A case study on the use of quantitative microbial risk assessment to determine occupational risks for wastewater treatment plants workers in Costa Rica
Morales Mora, Eric; Badilla Aguilar, Andrei; Rivera Navarro, Pablo César; Alfaro Arrieta, Ernesto; Symonds, Erin Michelle; Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia; Ruepert, Clemens; Crowe, Jennifer; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María (2023)Wastewater treatment is essential for preventing infectious diseases and water pollution. To perform this process, workers operate and maintain wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs); thus, they are exposed to the many pathogens ... -
Anthropogenic activities and the problem of antibiotic resistance in Latin America: a water issue
Dominguez, Delfina C.; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Wallace, D’Janique (2021)Antibiotics revolutionized modern medicine and have been an excellent tool to fight infections. However, their overuse and misuse in different human activities such as health care, food production and agriculture has ... -
Bacterial communities in residential wastewater treatment plants are physiologically adapted to high concentrations of quaternary ammonium compounds
Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Rojas Jiménez, Keilor Osvaldo; Arias Andrés, María de Jesús (2023-08-28)Benzalkonium chloride (BAC) is a quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) widely used as the active ingredient of disinfectants. Its excessive discharge into wastewater is constant and in high concentrations, likely affecting ... -
Características físicas, químicas y microbiológicas del agua subterránea en Los Chiles, Costa Rica, y su asociación con el uso del suelo
Fuentes Schweizer, Paola; Morales Mora, Eric; Vargas Muñoz, Rigoberto; Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María (2023)Introduction: Los Chiles has one of the lowest Social Progress Indexes in Costa Rica. The inhabitants drink untreated groundwater from an aquifer across the Nicaragua-Costa Rica border. Objective: To characterize water ... -
Challenges detecting SARS-CoV-2 in Costa Rican domestic wastewater and river water
Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Rivera Montero, Luis César; Segura Villalta, Alexander; Badilla Aguilar, Andrei; Alfaro Arrieta, Ernesto; Rivera Navarro, Pablo César; Méndez Chacón, Ericka; Santamaría Ulloa, Carolina (2023-11-01)This study presents the development of a SARS-CoV-2 detection method for domestic wastewater and river water in Costa Rica, a middle-income country in Central America. Over a three-year period (November to December 2020, ... -
Chapter 11: Antiviral, Antimicrobial, and Antibiofilm Properties of Biosurfactants
Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia; Araya Barrantes, Juan José; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Procúpez Schtirbu, Rolando; Lugo, Fernanda; Ibarra, Gabriel; Soto Tellini, Victor Hugo (2021-04-01)In an era of increasing drug resistance, the search for antimicrobial agents is crucial for the development of a sustainable future. Biosurfactants are amphiphilic molecules with recognised surface tension, and biological ... -
Draft Genome Sequence of an Escherichia coli Strain Harboring blaCTX-M-115, blaCMY-2, Aminoglycoside, Tetracycline, and Sulfonamide Resistance Genes, Isolated from a Costa Rican Wastewater Treatment Plant
Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Morales Mora, Eric; Ramírez Carvajal, Lisbeth (2020-01)We report the draft genome sequence of the multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli strain PTA A1517-5, isolated from a wastewater treatment plant in Costa Rica. The genome consists of 4,927,375 bp with a GC content of 50.57% ... -
Efecto del cloruro de benzalconio sobre comunidades microbianas en lodos activados y Aeromonas hydrophila
Chacón Jiménez, Luz María (2023-09-14)La limpieza, como actividad cotidiana, incluye el uso de una gran cantidad de desinfectantes que terminan siendo descargados en aguas residuales domésticas e industriales, en plantas de tratamiento (PTAR) y finalmente en ... -
Enterococci as a key parameter for water quality index: Purires River, Costa Rica
Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Arias Mora, Víctor; Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia; Beita Sandí, Wilson; Reyes Lizano, Liliana; Achí Araya, María Rosario (2018)This study used the Canadian Water Quality Index (CWI) to characterize water sampled at three points within the Purires River micro basin, Costa Rica. The first sampling point is located in a high zone with domestic ... -
Guía para la optimización de procesos de potabilización de agua para uso y consumo doméstico, dirigido a entes operadores en el país
Romero Esquivel, Luis Guillermo; Pino Gómez, Macario; Jiménez Antillón, Joaquín; Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Mora Campos, Diana; Gamboa Jiménez, Alejandra; Silva Narváez, Basilio (2021)La gestión del recurso hídrico en nuestro país se da en gran parte a través de las Asociaciones Administradoras de los Sistemas de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, mejor conocidas como ASADAs. Existen más de 1 400 ASADAs en ... -
El impacto de la resistencia a los antibióticos en el desarrollo sostenible
Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Arias Andrés, María de Jesús (2022)La resistencia a los antimicrobianos (RAM) es un problema de salud pública cada vez más complejo y se considera como una de las mayores amenazas en todo el mundo. El desarrollo de la RA en los patógenos bacterianos es una ... -
Low-cost internal controls for detection of Giardia cysts in water samples
Solano Barquero, Melissa; Morales Mora, Eric; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Cordero Jara, Erick Arnulfo; Reyes Lizano, Liliana; Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia; Achí Araya, María Rosario (2019-08)Giardia cysts stained with hot carbolfuchsin were used as internal controls in a concentration method for surface water samples. The morphological integrity of stained cysts and the stain's stability and intensity were ... -
Mechanisms of low susceptibility to the disinfectant benzalkonium chloride in a multidrug-resistant environmental isolate of Aeromonas hydrophila
Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Kuropka, Benno; González Tortuero, Enrique; Schreiber, Frank; Rojas Jiménez, Keilor Osvaldo; Rodríguez Rojas, Alexandro (2023)Excessive discharge of quaternary ammonium disinfectants such as benzalkonium chloride (BAC) into aquatic systems can trigger several physiological responses in environmental microorganisms. In this study, we isolated a ... -
Multidrug‑Resistant Escherichia coli in Costa Rican Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plants Maintains Horizontal Transfer Capacity of Resistance Determinants in Effluents
Rivera Montero, Luis César; Acuña Espínola, Gabriel; Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia; Rojas Jiménez, Keilor Osvaldo; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María (2023-06-13)This study was conducted to evidence the dissemination potential of antibiotic resistance genetic elements in E. coli isolates of Costa Rican domestic wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Few studies have addressed ... -
Occurrence of pathogenic microorganisms in small drinking-water systems in Costa Rica
Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Morales Mora, Eric; Rivera Montero, Luis César; Pino Gómez, Macario; Gamboa Jiménez, Alejandra; Mora Campos, Diana; Salas Jiménez, Pablo; Silva Narváez, Basilio; Romero Esquivel, Luis Guillermo (2022-02-03)This study describes the quality of drinking water sampled over 2 years (2018 and 2019) from 20 ASADAS (Spanish acronym for Administrative Associations for Water and Sewer Systems) in Costa Rica. The analysis included ... -
Protocolo nacional de vigilancia, atención y control del cólera (2022)
Amén Funk, Francisco; Badilla Mora, Albin; Caravaca Rodríguez, Ivannia; Castro Córdoba, Roberto; Chaverri Esquivel, Alejandra; Espinoza Fonseca, Humberto; Quesada Rojas, Carolina; Hidalgo Balarezo, Blanca Rosa; Madrigal Vega, Alberto José; Wong Zúñiga, Lumen; Villalobos Ugalde, Juan Carlos; Chanto Chacón, Grettel; Oropeza Barrios, Gletty; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Rivera Navarro, Pablo César; Alfaro Arrieta, Ernesto; Sandi Muñoz, Alexis; Jiménez, Ana María (2022)El cólera es una de las enfermedades más antiguas de la humanidad, pero es hasta inicios del siglo XIX que se dispone de un mayor conocimiento de sus causas, formas de transmisión y tratamiento. El mecanismo de transmisión ... -
Protocolo nacional para la vigilancia de enfermedades transmitidas por alimentos y agua
Badilla Mora, Albin; Caravaca Rodríguez, Ivannia; Castro Córdoba, Roberto; Chaverri Esquivel, Alejandra; Delgado Jiménez, Sandra; Quesada Rojas, Carolina; Salguero Mendoza, Carlos; Torres Alvarado, Danny; Torres Moreno, Adriana; Benitez Rodríguez, Daisy; Hidalgo Balarezo, Blanca Rosa; Madrigal Vega, Alberto José; Smith Cabezas, Randall; Villalobos Ugalde, Juan Carlos; Wong Zúñiga, Lumen; Alfaro Calvo, Thelma; Barquero Ureña, Guillermo; Chanto Chacón, Grettel; Duarte Martínez, Francisco; Umaña Valverde, Ericka; Oropeza Barrios, Gletty; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Rivera Navarro, Pablo César; Cruz Vázquez, Olivet; Sánchez Hernández, Cristian; Jiménez Solis, Ana María (2024)Las enfermedades transmitidas por los alimentos (ETA) constituyen un importante problema de salud a nivel mundial. Son provocadas por el consumo de agua o alimentos contaminados con microorganismos o parásitos, o bien ... -
Remoción de parámetros fisicoquímicos y microbiológicos de plantas de tratamiento de aguas residuales del Gran Área Metropolitana, Costa Rica
Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Morales Mora, Eric; Alfaro Arrieta, Ernesto; Valiente Álvarez, Carmen Isabel; Reyes Lizano, Liliana; Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia (2023-01-28)Las aguas residuales inadecuadamente tratadas son un factor de riesgo para la salud pública dado que son un vehículo de diseminación de microorganismos patógenos como virus entéricos. Sin embargo, la circulación de patógenos ... -
Situación Actual de Egresos Hospitalarios asociados a Enfermedad de Wilson en Costa Rica
Camacho Solís, Melissa María; Fernández Sequeira, Daniela María; Solís Sánchez, Priscilla Beatriz; Fernández Cascante, Johnn Manuel; Chacón Jiménez, Luz María (2019)La Enfermedad de Wilson (EW) tiene alta incidencia en Costa Rica y existe poca información epidemiológica publicada al respecto en el país. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo actualizar la información local de esta enfermedad ... -
Wastewater-based epidemiology of enteric viruses and surveillance of acute gastrointestinal illness outbreaks in a resource-limited region
Chacón Jiménez, Luz María; Morales Mora, Eric; Valiente Álvarez, Carmen Isabel; Reyes Lizano, Liliana; Barrantes Jiménez, Kenia (2021)Acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) continues to be an important cause of morbidity and mortality among all ages. This study applied the principles ofwastewater-based epidemiology for the preventive identification of ...