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‘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 ...
Molecular Detection of Bartonella Species in Fleas Collected from Dogs and Cats from Costa Rica
(2015-09)
The bacterial genus Bartonella includes several species with zoonotic potential, some of which are common in domestic dogs and cats, as well as in their fleas. Because there is no previous information about the presence ...
Modeling dengue cases in health Regions of Costa Rica using El Niño Southern Oscillation and local vegetation dynamics
(2009-11)
Temporal behavior of dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DH/DHF) has been associated with climate, which may modulate mosquito vector populations. El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) fluctuations can be related to ...
Detection of an undescribed Rickettsia sp. in Ixodes boliviensis from Costa Rica
(2014)
Ixodes boliviensis is a tick of carnivores that is common on domestic dogs. The only Rickettsia that has been detected previously in this species is 'Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae'. We report the detection of an undescribed ...
Papel potencial de Aedes albopictus Skuse en la transmisión de virus dengue (DENV) en una zona de actividad piñera de Costa Rica
(2019)
Objetivo. Evaluar, bajo una perspectiva ecológica, la presencia de Aedes albopictus y su infección natural por virus dengue (DENV) en una zona de actividad piñera de Costa Rica.
Método: Se colectaron mosquitos adultos en ...
Terapia larval con Lucilia eximia (Diptera: Calliphoridae) de Costa Rica en un modelo experimental
Maggot therapy with lucilia eximia (Dipteria: Calliphoridae) of Costa Rica in an experimental model
(2014-06-01)
Con el fin de analizar la aceleración en la solución de heridas dérmicas mediante el tratamiento con larvas de Lucilia eximia (Diptera: Calliphoridae), se generaron úlceras en piel en parejas de ratas mediante inoculación ...
Infección por larvas de Alouattamyia baeri (Diptera: Cuterebridae) en monos aulladores, Alouatta palliata (Primates: Cebidae), de la costa caribe de Costa Rica
(2004-06-01)
Alouattamyia baeri es una especie de cuterébrido cuya larva se asocia con el parasitismo en primates del Nuevo Mundo (Catts, 1982). La descripción de la morfología fue realizada por Shannon y Greene (1926) con ejemplares ...
The Impact of Deforestation, Urbanization, and Changing Land Use Patterns on the Ecology of Mosquito and Tick-Borne Diseases in Central America
(2022)
Central America is a unique geographical region that connects North and South America, enclosed by the Caribbean Sea to the East, and the Pacific Ocean to the West. This region, encompassing Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, ...