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    • First report of a naturally patent infection of Angiostrongylus costaricensis in a dog 

      Alfaro-Alarcón, Alejandro; VENEZIANO, Vincenzo; Galiero, Giorgio; Cerrone, Anna; Gutierrez, Natalia; Chinchilla, Adriana; Annoscia, Giada; Colella, Vito; Dantas Torres, Filipe; Otranto, Domenico; Santoro, Mario (Veterinary Parasitology, 2015-09-15)
      Angiostrongylus costaricensis is the zoonotic agent of abdominal angiostrongyliasis in several countries in North and South America. Rodents are recognized as the main definitive hosts of A. costaricensis, but other wildlife ...

    • First report of Amblyomma tapirellum Dunn, 1933 (Ixodida: Ixodidae) in Costa Rica 

      Dolz, Gaby; Jiménez Rocha, Ana Eugenia; Castro, Ruth; Solórzano-Morales, Antony; Montenegro, Víctor M.; Bermúdez, Sergio; Víquez, Carlos (Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2015-07-31)
      A total of six Amblyomma tapirellum ticks were found for the first time in rainforest from the lowland to the southern Pacific of Costa Rica. Tick identification was carried out by morphology and afterward confirmed by ...

    • First report of anthelmintic resistance in gastrointestinal nematodes of sheep from Costa Rica 

      Maroto, R; Jiménez Rocha, Ana Eugenia; Romero-Zúñiga, Juan José; Álvarez, Víctor; De Oliveira, Jaqueline; Hernández-Gamboa, Jorge (Revista Internacional de Medicina Veterinaria, 2011)
      As the prevalence and severity of anthelmintic resistance continue to rise, nematode infections in sheep correspondingly reduce the profitability of the sheep industry. In Costa Rica, sheep production systems are increasing ...

    • First report of bovine neosporosis in dairy cattle in Costa Rica 

      Pérez, E.; González, O.; Dolz, Gaby; Morales, Juan Alberto; Barr, B.; Conrad, P. A. (British Veterinary Association, 1998-05-09)
      NEOSPOROSIS has recently been recognised as a major cause of abortion in dairy cattle worldwide (Barr and others 1990, Duff and Otter 1994, Boulton and others 1995). The disease is caused by the protozoan parasite, ...

    • First Report of Campylobacter hepaticus Isolation in Laying Hens and Broiler Breeders with Spotty Liver Disease in Costa Rica 

      Quesada-Vásquez, Dioney; Jimenez-Madrigal, Laura; Chaves-Hernandez, Aida Jeannette; MUNOZ VARGAS, LOHENDY; BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS (American Association of Avian Pathologists, 2023-04)
      Poultry producers in Costa Rica have informally reported a spotty liver disease–like syndrome for more than 20 yr. However, despite many attempts, the infectious agent responsible for this syndrome had not been identified. ...

    • First report of Lutzomyia (Psychodopygus) bispinosa Fairchild and Hertig (Diptera. Psychodidae) from Costa Rica. 

      Herrero, Marco V.; Jiménez Rocha, Ana Eugenia (Universidad de Costa Rica, 1992)
      Lutzomyia bispinosa had been reported from Belize (Williams 1970), Guatemala (Portes et al. 1987). Honduras (Fairchild and Hertig 1959), Nicaragua (Fairchild an Hertig 1959) and Panamá (Fairchild and Hertig 1951) which ...

    • First report of the trematode Platynosomum illiciens (Trematoda: Digenea) in Felis catus in Costa Rica, Central America 

      Castillo Azofeifa, Brandon; Zamora Segura, Valeria; Quirós Padilla, Francinie; Vindas van der Wielen, Emilia; Valerio Solís, Francisco; Iwaki, Takashi; Hiromu, Sugiyama; Morales Acuña, Juan Alberto; Jiménez Rocha, Ana Eugenia (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021-02-02)
      This paper is the first description of the trematode P. illiciens found in a domestic feline (Felis catus) in Costa Rica, detected as an incidental finding at necropsy. The cat’s carcass was accepted for a necropsy in the ...

    • First report of Trypanosoma vivax infection in dairy cattle from Costa Rica 

      De Oliveira, Jaqueline B.; Hernández Gamboa, Jorge; Jiménez Alfaro, C.; Zeledón, Rodrigo; Blandón-Naranjo, Melissa; Urbina, Andrea (Elsevier, 2009)
      An outbreak of haemoparasitoses occurred from October 2007 to July 2008 in cattle from the district of Rio Cuarto, province of Alajuela, Costa Rica. Fifty animals of various ages out of 450 Brown Swiss were affected. The ...

    • First report of Trypanosoma vivax infection in sheep from Nicaragua 

      Bonilla, José Luis; Bianque Oliveira, Jaqueline; Flores, Byron; Jiron, William; Sheleby Elías, Jessica (Elsevier Science B.V, 2021-07)
      In Central America, outbreaks of trypanosomiasis by Trypanosoma vivax have been recorded only in cattle. This is the first report of an outbreak of trypanosomiasis by T. vivax in 30 Pelibuey sheep (2 to 7 years old, male ...

    • First report on the seroprevalence of Neospora caninum in goats from the Federal State of Hesse, Germany 

      Dolz, Gaby; Villagra-Blanco, Rodolfo; Wagner, Henrik; Romero-Zúñiga, Juan José; Taubert, Anja; Wehrend, Axel; Hermosilla, Carlos (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2017-10-23)
      A total of 415 goat serum samples from 26 flocks in Hesse, Central Germany, were analyzed for the presence of specific antibodies against the abortion-causing apicomplexan parasite Neospora (N.) caninum by immuno-enzyme ...

    • Fixation of hydrogel constructs for cartilage repair in the equine model: a challenging issue 

      Vindas Bolaños, Rafael; Mancini, Irina; Brommer, Harold; Castilho, Miguel; Ribeiro, Alexandro; van Loon, Johannes; Mensinga, Anneloes; van Rijen, Mattie; Malda, Jos; van Weeren, René (Tissue Engineering, 2017-11-07)
      Objective: To report on the experiences with the use of commercial and autologous fibrin glue (AFG) and of an alternative method based on a 3D-printed polycaprolactone (PCL) anchor for the fixation of hydrogel-based scaffolds ...

    • Flebótomos de Costa Rica (Diptera Psychodidae) 

      Murillo, Juan; Zeledón Araya, Rodrigo (Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, 1985-03)
      Esta monografía pretende dar a conocer y ampliar los conocimientos existentes sobre los flebótomos de Costa Rica, desde el punto de vista de su taxonomía, su distribución en el territorio nacional, y de algunos aspectos ...

    • Flora bacteriana cloacal y nasal de Lepidochelys olivacea (Testudines: Cheloniidae) en el pacífico norte de Costa Rica 

      Santoro, Mario; Orrego, Carlos Mario; Hernández Gómez, Giovanna (Universidad de Costa Rica, 2005-07-05)
      The aerobic cloacal and nasal bacterial flora of 45 apparently healthy female olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) was studied at Nancite nesting beach, in Santa Rosa National Park (Costa Rican North Pacific) ...

    • Four cases of equine bone lesions caused by Pythium insidiosum 

      MENDOZA, L.; Alfaro-Alarcon, Alejandro (BEVA, 1990)
      PYTHIOSIS is usually a granulomatous disease of skin and subcutis in horses (Austwick and Copland 1974; Miller and Campbell 1982; Mendoza and Alfaro 1986), and cattle (Miller, Bruce and Archer 1985), of skin and intestinal ...

    • Francisella marina Sp. nov., etiologic agent of systemic disease in cultured spotted rose snapper (Lutjanus Guttatus) in Central America 

      Soto, Esteban; Morales, Juan Alberto; Sebastiao, Fernanda de Alexandre; García, Julio; Griffin, Matt; BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS; López-Porras, Adrián; Víquez-Rodríguez, Xindy; Reichley, Stephen; Rosser, Thomas; Ware, Cynthia; Byrne, Barbara; LaFrentz, Benjamin; Camus, Alvin (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 ...

    • Francisella sp., an emerging pathogen of tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.), in Costa Rica 

      Soto, E; Hawke, J P; Fernandez, D; Morales, Juan Alberto (Blackwell, 2009)
      Francisella sp. is an emergent bacterial pathogen that causes acute to chronic disease in warm and cold water cultured and wild fish species. During the past 3 years, the bacterium has been detected in tilapia, Oreochromis ...

    • Frecuency and species of Campylobacter spp. in broiler at three levels of the poultry production chain of Costa Rica 

      Zumbado Gutiérrez, Leana; Romero-Zúñiga, Juan José; BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS; Abarca Gómez, Jessica; Jiménez Mora, Mónica; Ravery Morovati, Vandad; Arias Echandi, María Laura (International Journal of Current Research, 2019-02-28)
      Campylobacter spp. is one of the main bacteria that cause food borne illness. Many of these cases are caused by C. jejuni and C. coli, which are transmitted mainly by poultry. A cross-sectional study, conducted between ...

    • Free-living hard ticks (Ixodida: Ixodidae) from three different natural environments of Costa Rica 

      Montenegro, Víctor M.; Delgado, Mónica; Miranda, Roberto; Vargas Muñoz, Mariana; Domínguez, Lillian; Bermúdez, Sergio (Elsevier, 2021)
      This paper presents data on free-living ticks collected by flagging and using CO2 traps in three natural areas in Costa Rica: Carara National Park (CNP), Palo Verde National Park (PVNP), and a Private Forest Reserve ...

    • Fuentes de contagio del coronavirus son múltiples 

      Núñez Z, Johnny (Oficina de Comunicación, Universidad Nacional., 2020-03)
      En las personas se pueden manifestar los alfa y beta coronavirus; los más letales hasta ahora son los betacoronavirus, como SARS, MERS y CoV-2019. Carlos Jiménez, virólogo de la UNA, recomendó que la higiene, sobre todo ...

    • Fuentes de motivación para la práctica de actividades acuáticas (natación y acuaeróbicos) en mujeres mayores de treinta años de edad de diversas nacionalidades 

      Zúñiga Rivera, Kattia (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2005)
      Analiza la importancia de diversos factores motivacionales que podrían explicar la práctica de actividades acuáticas (natación y acuaeróbicos) y la adherencia a estos programas en mujeres mayores de treinta años de distintas ...