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First report of Trypanosoma vivax infection in dairy cattle from Costa Rica
(Elsevier, 2009)
An outbreak of haemoparasitoses occurred from October 2007 to July 2008 in cattle from
the district of Rio Cuarto, province of Alajuela, Costa Rica. Fifty animals of various ages out
of 450 Brown Swiss were affected. The ...
Francisella sp., an emerging pathogen of tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.), in Costa Rica
(Blackwell, 2009)
Francisella sp. is an emergent bacterial pathogen that
causes acute to chronic disease in warm and cold
water cultured and wild fish species. During the past
3 years, the bacterium has been detected in tilapia,
Oreochromis ...
Naegleria fowleri-associated encephalitis in a cow from Costa Rica
(Elsevier, 2006)
Species of Naegleria, Acanthamoeba, and Balamuthia are soil amoebae that can cause encephalitis in animals and humans. Of these, Naegleria fowleri is the cause of often fatal primary meningoencephalitis in humans. N. ...
Genetic comparison of breeding schemes based on semen importation and local breeding schemes: framework and application to Costa Rica
(American Dairy Science Association, 2004-05-01)
Local breeding schemes for Holstein cattle of Costa
Rica were compared with the current practice based
on continuous semen importation (SI) by deterministic
simulation. Comparison was made on the basis of ge-
netic ...
Modeling extended lactations of dairy cows
(American Dairy Science Association, 2000-06)
Nine mathematical models were compared for their
ability to predict daily milk yields (n = 294,986) in stan-
dard 305-d and extended lactations of dairy cows of
Costa Rica. Lactations were classified by parity ...
Biologic and genetic characteristics of Toxoplasma gondii isolates in free-range chickens from Costa Rica, Central America
(Elsevier B.V, 2006-02-23)
The prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in free-ranging chickens is a good indicator of the prevalence of T. gondii oocysts in the soil because chickens feed from the ground. The prevalence of T. gondii in 144 free-range ...
Computational biology in Costa Rica: the role of a small country in the global context of bioinformatics
(PLoS Computational Biology, 2008-03-14)
The successful development of high throughput methods for
DNA sequencing, transcriptomics, proteomics, and other –omics,
has contributed to the emergence of novel possibilities for the
examination of complex biological ...
A survey on Triatoma dimidiata in an urban area of the province of Heredia, Costa Rica
(Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, 2005-10)
Triatoma dimidiata has been found in several cities and towns of those countries where the insect is a domestic or
peridomestic pest. In Central America, urban infestations occur in the capitals of at least five ...
Parásitos caninos contaminan playas del Pacífico Central
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2009-12-04)
Un estudio realizado por la Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria de
la Universidad Nacional (UNA),
comprobó la existencia de parásitos gastrointestinales de perros (PGI), en heces
recolectadas en playas del Pacífico ...
Isolation of toxoplasma gondii from the keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) from Costa Rica
(American Society of Parasitologists, 2009-04-01)
Pectoral muscles from a captive keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) from Costa Rica were fed to a Toxoplasma gondii– free cat, and the cat shed oocysts. Laboratory mice fed these oocysts developed antibodies to T. ...