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Bienestar animal en investigación biomédica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2011-01)
El bienestar animal es un tema controversial que ha tomado especial interés en los
últimos años, a la vez, lo coloca en la mira de la investigación biomédica. El uso de animales es de
gran provecho para el avance científico ...
Evaluación endocrina en animales silvestres por métodos no invasivos
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2018)
La manipulación de animales silvestres, tanto de vida libre como en cautiverio, induce estrés elevado
en los individuos, lo cual resulta en potencial detrimento de su salud y altera los resultados de las
pruebas clínicas ...
Aislamiento, identificación y caracterización de hongos nematófagos depredadores nativos de Costa Rica
(Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, 2015)
Tropical ecosystems provide biological resources with potential to be used in agricultu-
re, for example, the predatory nematophagous fungi (PNF), which can be used as biological control
agents of parasitic nematodes ...
Epidemiología y registro de las cardiopatías congénitas en Costa Rica
(Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2011)
Objetivo. Caracterizar la población de niños que nacen con cardiopatías congénitas (CC) en
Costa Rica y evaluar sus procesos de registro.
Métodos. Estudio observacional exploratorio que incluyó a todos los niños con ...
Mosquito biodiversity patterns around urban environments in South-central okinawa island, Japan
(The American Mosquito Control Association, Inc., 2014)
Okinawa is the largest, most urbanized, and densely populated island in the Ryukyus
Archipelago, where mosquito species diversity has been thoroughly studied. However, the south-central
Okinawa mosquito fauna has been ...
Detection of antibodies against Sarcocystis neurona, Neospora spp., and Toxoplasma gondii in horses from Costa Rica
(American Society of Parasitologists, 2011)
Serum samples from 315 horses from Costa Rica, Central
America, were examined for the presence of antibodies against Sarcocystis
neurona, Neospora spp., and Toxoplasma gondii by using the surface
antigen (SAG) SnSAG2 ...
Mosquito Species (Diptera: Culicidae) Persistence and Synchrony Across an Urban Altitudinal Gradient
(Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America, 2016)
Patterns of mosquito spatial persistence and temporal presence, as well as synchrony, i.e., the degree of
concerted fluctuations in abundance, have been scarcely studied at finely grained spatial scales and over
altitudinal ...
Detección de agentes zoonóticos (Ehrlichia spp., Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma platys y Borrelia burgdorferii s.l.) en garrapatas recolectadas de perros en Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2013)
De octubre 2006 a julio del 2007 se recolectaron 165 garrapatas
de perros atendidos en clínicas veterinarias ubicadas en el Valle
Central (157) y de algunas residencias (8) en cinco provincias de
Costa Rica. En el caso ...
Spirorchiidiosis (Digenea: Spirorchiidae) and lesions associated with parasites in Caribbean green turtles (Chelonia mydas)
(British Veterinary Association, 2015)
Forty-seven nesting green turtles (Chelonia mydas) were examined for parasitic pathogens. Four species
of cardiovascular flukes (Digenea: Spirorchiidae), Learedius learedi, Hapalotrema postorchis, Monticellius
indicum ...
The Struggle of Neglected Scientific Groups: Ten Years of NeTropica Efforts to Promote Research in Tropical Diseases in Central America
(PLOS ONE, 2011)
The general strategy used by high-income countries to address global health challenges in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) relies heavily on short-term strategies designed to diminish the burden of diseases afflicting ...