Browsing Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud by Author "Herrero-Acosta, Marco Vinicio"

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    • Canine trypanosomiasis in an endemic Costa Rican community: demonstration of the active infection cycle 

      Dolz, Gaby; Bonilla, Marta C.; Castro-Vásquez, Ruth M.; Herrero-Acosta, Marco Vinicio; Urbina-Villalobos, Andrea (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2019-05-29)
      A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the prevalence of canine trypanosomiasis in an endemic community of Costa Rica. The indirect hemagglutination and indirect immunofluorescence assay yielded positive results ...

    • Detección de anticuerpos contra Trypanosoma cruzi en caninos de Costa Rica 

      Dolz, Gaby; Bonilla, Marta C.; Herrero-Acosta, Marco Vinicio; Urbina-Villalobos, Andrea (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2018-12-02)
      La enfermedad de Chagas es una enfermedad vectorial zoonótica ocasionada por Trypanosoma cruzi y transmitida, principalmente, por Triatoma dimidata, en Costa Rica. El parásito puede infectar a humanos, animales domésticos ...

    • Re-emergence of Plasmodium malariae in Costa Rica 

      Dolz, Gaby; Calvo, Nidia; Morera, Jessica; Solórzano-Morales, Antony; Herrero-Acosta, Marco Vinicio (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2015-04-30)
      In this paper we report the diagnosis of four cases of Plasmodium malariae in humans in Costa Rica, using parasitological and molecular techniques. Real-time PCR detected P. malariae in all four samples and established ...