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Whole genome sequencing of Shigella sonnei through PulseNet Latin America and Caribbean: advancing global surveillance of foodborne illnesses
(Clinical Microbiology and infection, 2017-11)
Objectives: Shigella sonnei is a globally important diarrhoeal pathogen tracked through the surveillance network PulseNet Latin America and Caribbean (PNLA&C), which participates in PulseNet International. PNLA&C laboratories ...
Frecuency and species of Campylobacter spp. in broiler at three levels of the poultry production chain of Costa Rica
(International Journal of Current Research, 2019-02-28)
Campylobacter spp. is one of the main bacteria that cause food borne illness. Many of these cases are caused by C. jejuni and C. coli, which are transmitted mainly by poultry. A cross-sectional study, conducted between ...
The effect of the dam–calf relationship on serostatus to Neospora caninum on 20 Costa Rican dairy farms
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2003-03-31)
An epidemiological study was conduced on 20 dairy herds previously diagnosed as seropositive
for Neospora caninum. The number of females per farm varies from 41 to 296. All females present
on the farms were bled once in ...
Regime shifts and heterogeneous trends in malaria time series from Western Kenya Highlands
(Parasitology, 2011-10)
Large malaria epidemics in the East African highlands during the mid and late 1990s kindled a stream of research on the role that global warming might have on malaria transmission. Most of the inferences using temporal ...
Daniel Salas egresado de Epidemiología de la UNA
(Oficina de Comunicación, Universidad Nacional., 2020-05)
Una vez más la Universidad Nacional (UNA) se pone al servicio de Costa Rica. Daniel Salas, actual ministro de Salud, es uno de muchos graduados de la Maestría en Epidemiología Aplicada a los Sistemas de Salud, que imparte ...
Contingencia y educación a la población
(Oficina de Comunicación, Universidad Nacional., 2020-04)
En el marco del enfoque multisectorial Una-Salud, que promueve la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), se establece que la esencia del médico veterinario es la protección de la salud pública, ...
Advierten sobre virus de influenza G4
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2020-08)
La vigilancia sistemática de los virus de la gripe en los cerdos es fundamental para la alerta temprana y la preparación para la próxima posible pandemia.
Climatic variability and landscape heterogeneity impact urban mosquito diversity and vector abundance and infection
(Ecosphere, 2011-06-23)
Urban habitat heterogeneity can modify interactions across species and lead to spatially fine
grained differences in b-diversity patterns and their associated ecosystem services. Here, we study the
impacts of landscape ...
Distribution of Culicoides sonorensis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota: Clarifying the Epidemiology of Bluetongue Disease in the Northern Great Plains Region of the United States
(Entomological Society of America, 2011)
The presence or absence of the biting midge Culicoides sonorensis Wirth & Jones
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), a primary vector of bluetongue viruses (genus Orbivirus, family Reo viridae, BTV) in North America, was assessed ...
Seroprevalence and risk factors for equine arboviral infections (Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis, Western Equine Encephalomyelitis, Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis and West Nile Fever) in Costa Rica
(Elsevier, 2016)
To gain a better understanding of the epidemio-
logical situation of arboviral infections in horses in Costa Rica,
a national IgG seroprevalence study was performed in 2013. In
Costa Rica, equine arboviral infections ...