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Neospara caninum
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2020-09-05)
El objetivo de este vídeo es presentar una breve explicación sobre la neosporosis, enfermedad de origen parasitario y su afección en los animales. Se indican sus consecuencias y alteraciones, formas de transmisión, control, ...
Enfermedad de Chagas
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2020-11-12)
El objetivo de este video es presentar una breve explicación sobre la enfermedad de Chagas, una zoonosis ocasionada por el protozoario Tripanosoma cruzi, que afecta a más de 100 mamíferos incluyendo al ser humano. Se señala ...
Ticks infesting humans in Central America: A review of their relevance in public health
(Elsevier, 2022)
Ticks are blood-sucking arthropods that parasitize most groups of terrestrial or semiaquatic vertebrates. Humans
are accidental hosts to the ticks; however, in humans the ticks can cause damages varying from simple ...
Editorial: Insights in infectious agents and disease: 2021
(Frontiers Media S.A, 2023-07-10)
The emergence and spread of infectious diseases with pandemic potential occurred trough human history, and were recently reviewed in the section Infectious Agents and Disease by Piret and Boivin (2021). Major pandemics and ...
Case report: First documented case of cerebral angiostrongyliasis caused by Angiostrongylus costaricensis in a free-ranging opossum
(Frontiers, 2024-02-01)
Angiostrongylus costaricensis is a metastrongyloid nematode that primarily infects the mesenteric arteries of wild rodents. This parasite is endemic in several regions of the American continent, and in humans, causes a ...
Molecular, morphological and histopathological evidence of Spirometra mansoni in wild and domestic animals from Costa Rica
(Elsevier Science B.V, 2024-04-30)
Spirometra mansoni is a diphyllobothroid cestode and one of the causing agents of sparganosis, a zoonotic
foodborne and waterborne infection in humans. This parasite has an indirect life cycle with domestic and wild
canids ...