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Pansusceptible Escherichia Coli isolates obtained from faeces of free-ranging baird's tapirs (Tapirus Bairdii) suggests a low selective pressure for resistance determinants in the Northwestern Region of the Talamanca Mountain Range, Costa Rica
(Elsevier, 2018-09-27)
Objectives
The main objective of this study was to analyse the antimicrobial susceptibility profile of Escherichia coli isolates obtained from faecal samples of free-ranging Baird’s tapirs (Tapirus bairdii) in the ...
Depletion of complement enhances the clearance of Brucella abortus in mice
(American Society for Microbiology, 2018-08-06)
Brucellosis is a bacterial disease of animals and humans. Brucella abortus barely activates the innate immune system at the onset of infection, and this bacterium is resistant to the microbicidal action of complement. Since ...
Persistence of Brucella abortus in the bone marrow of infected mice
(Journal of Immunology Research, 2018-12-03)
Brucellosis is a zoonotic bacterial infection that may persist for long periods causing relapses in antibiotic-treated patients. The ability of Brucella to develop chronic infections is linked to their capacity to invade ...
Multidrug-resistant Clostridium Difficile Ribotypes 078 and 014/5-FLI01 in Piglets From Costa Rica
(Elsevier, 2018-11-08)
Though an overlap of Clostridium difficile PCR ribotypes (RT) in humans and animals has been noted -particularly in piglets-information regarding C. difficile isolates from swine is scarce in Latin America. A characterization ...
Application of multiplex quantitative Polymerase chain reaction methods to detect common bacterial fish pathogens in Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus, hatcheries in Costa Rica
(WILEY, 2018-09-29)
Edwardsiella spp., Streptococcus spp., and Francisella noatunensis subsp. orientalis are some of the most important fish pathogens affecting global tilapia, Oreochromis spp., aquaculture. In Costa Rica, the aquaculture ...
Francisella marina Sp. nov., etiologic agent of systemic disease in cultured spotted rose snapper (Lutjanus Guttatus) in Central America
(American Society for Microbiology, 2018-06-18)
Historically, piscine francisellosis in various warm-, temperate-, and cold-water fish hosts has been attributed to Francisella noatunensis From 2015 to 2016, an undescribed Francisella sp. was recovered during mortality ...
Detección de anticuerpos contra Trypanosoma cruzi en caninos de Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2018-12-02)
La enfermedad de Chagas es una enfermedad vectorial zoonótica ocasionada por Trypanosoma
cruzi y transmitida, principalmente, por Triatoma dimidata, en Costa Rica. El parásito puede infectar a
humanos, animales domésticos ...
Brucella abortus senses the intracellular environment through the BvrR/Bvrs two-component system, which allows B. abortus to adapt to its replicative nich
(American Society for Microbiology., 2018-01-16)
Brucella abortus is a facultative extracellular-intracellular pathogen belonging to a group of Alphaproteobacteria that establishes close interactions with animal cells. This bacterium enters host cells in a membrane-bound ...
Efecto de la caminata en piscina sobre el patrón de marcha y calidad de vida en pacientes con enfermedad de parkinson
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2018)
Determinar el efecto de la caminata en piscina sobre el patrón de marcha y la percepción de la calidad de vida en pacientes con Enfermedad de Parkinson. Los sujetos participantes fueron (n=3) dos mujeres y un hombre (edad ...
Presencia de parásitos (Nematoda: Anisakidae) en peces de agua dulce destinados al consumo humano en Costa Rica y Guatemala.
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2018-03)
Los nemátodos de la familia Anisakidae incluyen tres géneros de importancia
clínica con una comprobada capacidad de causar infecciones accidentales en el ser
humano por consumo de productos pesqueros. Los géneros ...