Browsing Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud by Author "Thomson, Nicholas R."

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    • A sensor histidine kinase from a plant-endosymbiont bacterium restores the virulence of a mammalian intracellular pathogen 

      Chaves-Olarte, Esteban; Meza-Torres, Jazmín; Herrera-Rodríguez, Fabiola; Lizano-González, Esteban; Suárez-Esquivel, Marcela; Baker, Kate S.; Rivas-Solano, Olga; Ruiz-Villalobos, Nazareth; Villalta-Romero, Fabián; Cheng, Hai-Ping; Walkerf, Graham C.; Cloeckaert, Axel; Thomson, Nicholas R.; Frisan, Teresa; Moreno, Edgardo; Guzman-Verri, Caterina (Elsevier, 2023-11-08)
      Alphaproteobacteria include organisms living in close association with plants or animals. This interaction relies partly on orthologous two-component regulatory systems (TCS), with sensor and regulator proteins modulating ...

    • Brucella neotomae infection in humans, Costa Rica 

      BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS; Baker, Kate S.; Amuy, Ernesto; Chaves-Olarte, Esteban; Thomson, Nicholas R.; Moreno, Edgardo; Guzman-Verri, Caterina; Suárez-Esquivel, Marcela; Ruiz-Villalobos, Nazareth; Jiménez-Rojas, César; Chacón-Díaz, Carlos; Víquez-Ruiz, Eunice; Rojas-Campos, Norman; Oviedo-Sánchez, Gerardo (Emerging Infectious Diseases, 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 ...

    • Brucella sp. sequence‑type 27 associated with abortion in dwarf sperm whale Kogia sima 

      Hernández-Mora, Gabriela; González-Barrientos, Rocío; Víquez‑Ruíz, Eunice; Palacios Alfaro, Jose David; Bettoni‑Rodríguez, Gianmarco; Gendre, Marlène; Vincent, Charline; Roca‑Monge, Karol; Ruiz-Villalobos, Nazareth; Suárez-Esquivel, Marcela; Cordero‑Chavarría, Minor; Chaves-Olarte, Esteban; Thomson, Nicholas R.; BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS; Moreno, Edgardo; Guzman-Verri, Caterina (Springer Link, 2021-05-18)
      A dwarf sperm whale Kogia sima stranded alive along the Central Pacifc Coast of Costa Rica. The whale, handled by tourists and local inhabitants, was weak, had buoyancy difculties, and eventually aborted and died, showing ...

    • Canine brucellosis in Costa Rica reveals widespread Brucella canis infection and the recent introduction of foreign strains 

      Foster, Jeffrey; Guzman-Verri, Caterina; Suárez Esquivel, Marcela; Ruiz Villalobos, Nazareth; Hidalgo Jara, Warren; Chacon Díaz, Carlos; Zúniga Pereira, Ana Mariel; Masís Mora, Mario; Fernández Fernández, Ericka; Hernández Mora, Gabriela; BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS; Chaves Olarte, Esteban; Thomson, Nicholas R.; Moreno, Edgardo (Elsevier, 2021-04-16)
      Brucellosis is a prevalent disease in Costa Rica (CR), with an increasing number of human infections. Close to half of homes in CR have one or more dogs, corresponding to ∼1.4 million canines, most of them in the Central ...