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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 ...
Premio Nacional a la Calidad: el caso del Programa Gusano Barrenador
(ICAP-Revista Centroamericana de Administración Pública, 2011-05-30)
A finales del 2010 el Programa Gusano Barrenador-Vigilancia Epidemiológica participó en el concurso de Calidad Nacional y Prácticas Promisorias que desarrolló el Ministerio de Planificación Nacional y Política Económica, ...
Utilidad de la palpación rectal y la ecografía transrectal en el diagnóstico de gestación del ganado cebú en el trópico húmedo de Costa Rica
(Revista Cientifica de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias de la Universidad del Zulia, 2011-10-13)
The diagnostic efficacy of rectal palpation (RP) was compared to ecography (EG) in a natural mating program of Zebu cattle under Costa Rican tropical conditions. Grazing and lactating Bos indicus females, 98 each year (2005 ...
Parasites of cetaceans stranded on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica
(Revista de parasitología veterinaria, 2011-05-12)
Information regarding parasitic fauna of cetaceans from Costa Rica is provided for the first
time. A total of 25 stranded dolphins and whales were examined between 2001 and 2009,
including striped dolphin (Stenella ...
New Bruce-ladder multiplex PCR assay for the biovar typing of Brucella suis and the discrimination of Brucella suis and Brucella canis
(Veterinary Microbiology, 2011-06-11)
Rapid and specific identification of Brucella suis at the biovar level is necessary because
some of the biovars that infect animals are pathogenic for humans. None of the molecular
typing methods described so far are ...
First report of anthelmintic resistance in gastrointestinal nematodes of sheep from Costa Rica
(Revista Internacional de Medicina Veterinaria, 2011)
As the prevalence and severity of anthelmintic resistance continue to rise, nematode infections in sheep correspondingly reduce the
profitability of the sheep industry. In Costa Rica, sheep production systems are increasing ...
Serological detection of viral infections in captive wild cats from Costa Rica
(Veterinary Medicine International, 2011-02-08)
Serum samples from a total of 44 wildcats, 28 margays (Leopardus wiedii), 10 ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), four jaguaroundis (Herpailurus yaguaroundi), one oncilla (Leopardus tigrina), and one jaguar (Panthera onca) were ...
Method for the indentification of animals vaccinated against brucella
(European Patent Application, 2011-06-09)
La presente invención se refiere al uso de una cepa de Brucella spp. que expresa la proteína Green Flourescent Protein (GFP) en la elaboración de medicamentos para la prevención de la brucelosis en mamíferos, a las vacunas ...
Brucella abortus ornithine lipids are dispensable outer membrane components devoid of a marked pathogen-associated molecular pattern
(PLoS One, 2011-01-07)
The brucellae are a-Proteobacteria facultative intracellular parasites that cause an important zoonosis. These bacteria escape early detection by innate immunity, an ability associated to the absence of marked pathogen-associated ...
Estandarización de un protocolo de caracterización molecular para la identificación de especie de cepas terrestres de bacterias del género Brucella
(Ediciones Unisalle, 2011-10-03)
La brucelosis es la enfermedad zoonótica más extendida en el mundo que afecta diversos animales, incluyendo especies domésticas y de vida silvestre. Es causada por una
bacteria perteneciente al género Brucella, el cual ...