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Serosurvey in two rural areas evidences recent and previously undetected WNV and SLEV circulation in Costa Rica
(medRxiv preprint, 2021-09-13)
West Nile virus (WNV) and Saint Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) share similar virus transmission cycles that involve birds as amplifiers and mosquitoes as vectors. Mammals, including humans, are dead-end-hosts that may be ...
Prototecosis en caninos en Costa Rica: ¿cuándo sospechar y qué buscar?
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2022-01)
La prototecosis es una enfermedad causada por algas saprófitas, no clorofílicas, unicelulares y oportunistas del género
Prototheca, que afecta, principalmente, a animales con inmunodeficiencias. En caninos, con la forma ...
Costa Rica wildlife disease reporting system for preventive medicine and disease Control
(ASTMH, 2020-11)
SARS-COV-2 pandemic evidence that the impact of new zoonotic diseases
can be on both social and economical levels. Since such agents are
originated from wildlife reservoir communities, there’s a need for more
active ...
Hallazgos post-mortem y caracterización bacteriana de salmonelosis septicémica equina: Descripción de un caso.
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2022-07)
Se describe el primer caso, debidamente confirmado, de salmonelosis en un equino en Costa Rica; una potra
iberoamericana de siete meses de edad con un cuadro de diarrea de unas cuatro semanas de transcurso y baja ...
Passive epidemiological surveillance in wildlife in Costa Rica identifies pathogens of zoonotic and conservation importance
(PLoS ONE, 2022-09-26)
Epidemiological surveillance systems for pathogens in wild species have been proposed as
a preventive measure for epidemic events. These systems can minimize the detrimental
effects of an outbreak, but most importantly, ...
Boid inclusion body disease is also a disease of wild Boa Constrictors
(American Society for Microbiology, 2022-09-12)
Reptarenaviruses cause boid inclusion body disease (BIBD), a poten-
tially fatal disease, occurring in captive constrictor snakes boas and pythons
worldwide. Classical BIBD, characterized by the formation of pathognomonic ...
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 ...