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Assessing changing weather and the El Niño Southern Oscillation impacts on cattle rabies outbreaks and mortality in Costa Rica (1985–2016)
Sabine, E. Hutter; Käsbohrer, Annemarie; Fallas González, Silvia Lucía; León, Bernal; Brugger, Katharina; Baldi, Mario; Romero-Vega, L. Mario; Gao, Yan; Chaves, Luis Fernando (BMC Veterinary Research, 2018-09-17)Background: Rabies is a major zoonotic disease affecting humans, domestic and wildlife mammals. Cattle are the most important domestic animals impacted by rabies virus in the New World, leading to thousands of cattle ... -
Indian Ocean Dipole drives malaria resurgence in East African highlands
Hashizume, Masahiro; Chaves, Luis Fernando; Minakawa, Noboru (SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2012-02-16)Malaria resurgence in African highlands in the 1990s has raised questions about the underlying drivers of the increase in disease incidence including the role of El-Nin ̃o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). However, climatic ... -
Malaria elimination in Costa Rica: changes in treatment and mass drug administration
Chaves, Luis Fernando; Romero-Vega, L. Mario; Huber, John H.; Rojas Salas, Obdulio; Ramírez Rojas, Melissa; Gutiérrez Alvarado, José M.; Alex Perkins, T.; Prado, Monica; Marín Rodríguez, Rodrigo (MDPI AG, 2020-06-30)Costa Rica is a candidate to eliminate malaria by 2020. The remaining malaria transmission hotspots are located within the Huétar Norte Region (HNR), where 90% of the country’s 147 malaria cases have occurred since 2016, ... -
Range prediction for the Giant Fruit-Eating Bat, Artibeus amplus (Phyllostomidae: Stenodermatinae) in South America
Ramoni-Perazzi, Paolo; Chaves, Luis Fernando; Muñoz-Romo, Mariana; Kunz, Thomas (Taylor & Francis, 2012-05-12)Suitable habitat range for Artibeus amplus in the Neotropics was predicted using maximum entropy niche modeling, environmental covariates, and museum records from 61 locations across Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname. ...