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Brucella neotomae infection in humans, Costa Rica
(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 ...
Epidemiology of bovine brucellosis in Costa Rica: Lessons learned from failures in the control of the disease
(PLOS ONE, 2017-08-10)
Brucellosis, caused by Brucella abortus is a major disease of cattle and a zoonosis. In order
to estimate the bovine brucellosis prevalence in Costa Rica (CR), a total 765 herds (13078
bovines) from six regions of CR ...
Brucellosis in mammals of Costa Rica: an epidemiological survey
(PLOS ONE, 2017-08-09)
La brucelosis ha sido una enfermedad endémica del ganado y los seres humanos en Costa Rica desde principios del siglo XX. Sin embargo, no se ha reportado brucelosis en ovejas, cabras, cerdos, búfalos de agua, caballos y ...
Neurobrucellosis in stranded dolphins, Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2008-09)
Ten striped dolphins, Stenella coeruleoalba, stranded along the Costa Rican Pacifi c coast, had meningoencephalitis and antibodies against Brucella spp. Brucella ceti was isolated from cerebrospinal fl uid of 6 dolphins ...
Canine brucellosis in Costa Rica reveals widespread Brucella canis infection and the recent introduction of foreign strains
(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 ...
Bovine Leukaemia‐virus infection in Costa Rica
(Blackwell Wissenschaft, 1995)
The geographical distribution of bovine leukaemia‐virus (BLV)‐infected herds in Costa Rica and the isolation of BLV from cases of enzootic bovine leukosis are presented. It was found that BLV is prevalent throughout the ...
Brucellosis in mammals of Costa Rica: An epidemiological survey
(PLOS ONE, 2017-08-09)
Brucellosis has been an endemic disease of cattle and humans in Costa Rica since the
beginning of XX century. However, brucellosis in sheep, goats, pigs, water buffaloes, horses
and cetaceans, has not been reported in ...
Índices bibliométricos y revistas de ‘corriente central’: implicaciones para el desarrollo de las ciencias naturales en Costa Rica
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015-05)
Una característica asociada con el
surgimiento de la ciencia moderna, en los
siglos XVI y XVII, fue el establecimiento
de una rica dinámica ‘socializadora’ del
conocimiento mediante reuniones periódicas
entre científicos, ...
Persistence of Brucella abortus lineages revealed by genomic characterization and phylodynamic analysis
(PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020-04-14)
Brucellosis, caused by Brucella abortus, is a major disease of cattle and humans worldwide distributed. Eradication and control of the disease has been difficult in Central and South America, Central Asia, the Mediterranean ...
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 ...