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Anthelmintic resistance in commercial sheep farms in Costa Rica
(Elsevier B.V., 2021)Forty-eight commercial sheep farms were sampled between the years 2017 and 2019 to evaluate the percentage of reduction of the three families of broad-spectrum anthelmintic drugs available in Costa Rica - benzimidazoles ... -
Anthropometric Indicators in an Urban Fitness Center of the Province of Heredia
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Anticuerpos contra Toxocara spp.en perros de la comunidad de Getsemaní de Heredia, Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2018-08)La toxocariasis es causada por el nématodo Toxocara canis cuyo hospedero definitivo es el perro y otros cánidos. Es considerada una de las zoonosis más importantes por su impacto en salud pública. El ser humano puede ... -
Antigenic relationship between the animal and human pathogen Pythium insidiosum and nonpathogenic Pythium species
(American Society for Microbiology, 1987)Identification of the newly named pathogenic oomycete Pythium insidiosum and its differentiation from other Pythium species by morphologic criteria alone can be difficult and time-consuming. Antigenic anaysis by ... -
Antimicrobial activity of myotoxic phospholipases A2 from crotalid snake venoms and synthetic peptide variants derived from their C-terminal region
(Elsevier, 2005)A short peptide derived from the C-terminal region of Bothrops asper myotoxin II, a Lys49 phospholipase A2 (PLA2), was previously found to reproduce the bactericidal activity of its parent molecule. In this study, a panel ... -
Antimicrobial activity of the heliangolide chromolaenide and related sesquiterpene lactones
(Pergamon Press, 1980)Some sesquiterpene lactones are known to exhibit antimicrobial activity [1, 2]. More recently, it has been noted that the pseudoguainolide carpesiolin inhibits the growth of Xanthomonas oryzae [3]. Here, we report on ... -
Antimicrobial resistance and genetic diversity of Campylobacter spp. isolated from broiler chicken at three levels of the poultry production chain in Costa Rica
(International Association for Food Protection, 2021-07-29)Campylobacter spp. are considered the most common bacterial cause of human gastroenteritis, one of the four main causes of diarrheal disease worldwide, and they are one of the main foodborne pathogens causing hospitalizations ... -
Antimicrobial resistance genes in pigeons from public parks in Costa Rica
(Blackwell Verlag GmbH, 2017)Antimicrobial resistance is known to be an emerging problem, but the extent of the issue remains incomplete. The aim of this study was to determine the pres- ence or absence of nine resistance genes (blaTEM, catI, mecA, ... -
Aplicación de la ecocardiografía para el reconocimiento de estructuras cardiovasculares en caninos
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2007-05-04)Aplica la técnica de ecocardiografía para reconocer y evaluar a fondo el sistema cardiovascular en caninos. Se logró observar un total de 214 animales en dos etapas diferentes: la primera, realizada en el Ontario Veterinary ... -
Aplicación de un programa de ejercicio físico para la rehabilitación pulmonar de tres adultos mayores institucionalizados con enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC).
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2010)Se presenta la intervención de tres personas adultas mayores con enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica(EPOC), residentes del Hogar San Cayetano, mediante un programa de ejercicio físico para la rehabilitación pulmonar, ... -
Apparent lack of evidence on selected infectious agents in wild Yellow-naped Amazon parrots: implications for releasing attempts
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2015-05-09)Blood and feather samples, as well as oropharyngeal and cloacal swabs, were collected from nine free-ranging Amazona auropalliata between January and May 2009 in two highly modified landscapes in northern Costa Rica. ... -
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 ... -
Applying One Health to understand brucellosis biology
(Microbiology Society UKCongreso de la Sociedad de Microbiología del Reino Unido, 2019-04-08)Members of the Brucella genus, are facultative extracellular intracellular zoonotic bacteria that cause reproductive disease in animals. The different species show strong host preference in spite of sharing 96-98% similarity ... -
Appraisal of the epidemiology of Neospora caninum infection in Costa Rican dairy cattle
(Wageningen Institute of Animal Science, 2005)Appraisal of the epidemiology of Neospora caninum infection in Costa Rican dairy cattle. In Costa Rica, milk production has increased gradually during the twentieth century, in which the activity developed from a non-technical ... -
Arboviral encephalitis in Costa Rican horses: 2009-2016
(Elsevier, 2016)Arbovirus of the genus Alphavirus and Flavivirus can cause febrile illness and sometimes neurological disease in both humans and animals. West Nile Virus (WNV), Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus (EEEV), Western Equine ... -
Artroscopía diagnóstica y quirúrgica en equinos de alto rendimiento
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2007-06-21)Se realizó una pasantía de 3 meses de duración en el Hospital Equino Merritt & Asociados en Wauconda, Illinois, Estados Unidos. Esta práctica se enfocó principalmente en conocer la utilidad de la artroscopía en el ... -
ASGARD+: A New Modular Platform for Bacterial Antibiotic-Resistant Analysis
(Wiley Online Library, 2023-03-09)ASGARD+ (Accelerated Sequential Genome-analysis and Antibiotic Re- sistance Detection) is a command-line platform for automatic identification of antibiotic-resistance genes in bacterial genomes, providing an ... -
Asistencia veterinaria en comunidades indígenas (2007-2012)
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2012-07)El objetivo de este proyecto es proporcionar bienestar animal en aras de la salud pública, brindando asistencia veterinaria en comunidades indígenas de Costa Rica. La salud animal y humana van de la mano, por esto, ... -
Asociación entre el uso de redes sociales en teléfonos inteligentes, el rendimiento deportivo y la concentración en jugadores de tenis de mesa.
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2023)El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo analizar el efecto agudo del uso de las redes sociales, con teléfonos inteligentes, sobre el rendimiento deportivo de jugadores de tenis de mesa respecto a la velocidad de reacción, ...