Browsing Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud by Author "Chaves, Luis Fernando"
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Climatic fuctuations and malaria transmission dynamics, prior to elimination, in Guna Yala, República de Panamá
Amarilis Hurtado, Lisbeth; Calzada, José E.; Rigg, Chystrie A.; Castillo, Milagros; Chaves, Luis Fernando (BioMed Central, 2018-02-20)Background: Malaria has historically been entrenched in indigenous populations of the República de Panamá. This scenario occurs despite the fact that successful methods for malaria elimination were developed during the ... -
Ecological patterns of blood-feeding by kissing-bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)
Rabinovich, Jorge; Kitron, Uriel; Obed, Yamila; Yoshioka, Miho; Gottdenke, Nicole; Chaves, Luis Fernando (Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2011-06)Host use by vectors is important in understanding the transmission of zoonotic diseases, which can affect hu mans, wildlife and domestic animals. Here, a synthesis of host exploitation patterns by kissing-bugs, vectors of ... -
Regime shifts and heterogeneous trends in malaria time series from Western Kenya Highlands
Chaves, Luis Fernando; Hashizume, Masahiro; Satake, Akiko; Minakawa, Noboru (Parasitology, 2011-10)Large malaria epidemics in the East African highlands during the mid and late 1990s kindled a stream of research on the role that global warming might have on malaria transmission. Most of the inferences using temporal ...