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Valores Referenciales Hematológicos y Bioquímicos de Felinos Domésticos de Heredia y San José de Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2009-09-16)El aumento en la tenencia de gatos durante los últimos años ha producido un gran crecimiento de consultas de esta especie en la práctica veterinaria actual, lo que conlleva a una mayor demanda de información sobre las ... -
Variabilidad climática en las Regiones Norte, Central y Caribe y su asociación con variables productivas en fincas lecheras costarricenses
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2017-11)Esta investigación se realizó con el objetivo de cuantificar la variabilidad climática para tres zonas de importancia agropecuaria de Costa Rica y su posible asociación con variables productivas y reproductivas en los hatos ... -
Variante delta circularía en el país con baja prevalencia
(Oficina de Comunicación, Universidad Nacional, 2021-08)Debido al numeroso tráfico de personas entre Europa y los Estados Unidos, y a que dicha variante predomina en aquel continente y toma fuerza en el país de América del Norte, Juan José Romero Zúñiga, epidemiólogo de ... -
Variations in the temperature-humidity index and dorsal fat thickness during the last trimester of gestation and early postpartum period affect fertility of Bos indicus cows in the tropics
(Hindawi, 2018-07-24)In order to measure the infuence of the temperature-humidity index (THI) and the variation of fat thickness on reproductive performance, ninety-two Bos indicus cows kept under grazing conditions were used in two farms in ... -
Vector-borne pathogens in dogs from Costa Rica: first molecular description of Babesia vogeli and Hepatozoon canis infections with a high prevalence of monocytic ehrlichiosis and the manifestations of co-infection
(Veterinary Parasitology, 2014-01-31)Infection with canine vector-borne pathogens was evaluated in dogs from four different regions of Costa Rica by PCR. Demographic data, clinical signs, packed cell volume values, and the presence of tick infestation were ... -
Vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein is a determinant of pathogenesis in swine, a natural host
(American Society for Microbiology., 2003-07)There are two major serotypes of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), Indiana (VSIV) and New Jersey (VSNJV).We recovered recombinant VSIVs from engineered cDNAs that contained either (i) one copy of the VSIV G gene(VSIV-GI); ... -
Veterinario de la UNA elabora sustancia que regeneraría cartílago en caballos y humanos
(Oficina de Comunicación, Universidad Nacional., 2019-07)Rafael Vindas Bolaños, médico veterinario de la cátedra de Cirugía de Especies Mayores de la Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria de la Universidad Nacional (UNA), se convirtió en el primer científico costarricense ... -
Veterinarios explican cómo la Brucella resiste acción del sistema inmune
(Oficina de Comunicación, Universidad Nacional, 2019-02)Estudio de la Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria evidenció que dicha bacteria resiste y se replica en las células encargadas de contrarrestar las infecciones bacterianas en el organismo -
Virulent Brucella nosferati infecting Desmodus rotundus has emerging potential due to the broad foraging range of its bat host for humans and wild and domestic animals
(American Society for Microbiology, 2023-07-05)Desmodus rotundus, vampire bats, transmit dangerous infections, and brucellosis is a hazardous zoonotic disease, two adversities that coexist in the subtropical and tropical areas of the American continent. Here, we ... -
What have we learned from brucellosis in the mouse model?
(Veterinary Research, 2012)Brucellosis is a zoonosis caused by Brucella species. Brucellosis research in natural hosts is often precluded by practical, economical and ethical reasons and mice are widely used. However, mice are not natural Brucella ... -
What Is the Evolutionary Fingerprint in Neutrophil Granulocytes?
(University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany, 2020-06-25)Over the years of evolution, thousands of di erent animal species have evolved. All these species require an immune system to defend themselves against invading pathogens. Nevertheless, the immune systems of di erent ... -
What is the evolutionary fingerprint in neutrophil granulocytes?
(MDPI AG, 2020-06-25)Over the years of evolution, thousands of different animal species have evolved. All these species require an immune system to defend themselves against invading pathogens. Nevertheless, the immune systems of different ... -
White spot syndrome virus and Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei in shrimp farms in Costa Rica
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2020-03-04)Introduction. The white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) causes systemic destruction of ectodermal and mesodermal tissues in shrimp and can cause 100 % mortality. Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) is an intracellular ... -
Whole genome sequencing of Shigella sonnei through PulseNet Latin America and Caribbean: advancing global surveillance of foodborne illnesses
(Clinical Microbiology and infection, 2017-11)Objectives: Shigella sonnei is a globally important diarrhoeal pathogen tracked through the surveillance network PulseNet Latin America and Caribbean (PNLA&C), which participates in PulseNet International. PNLA&C laboratories ... -
Winter activity and diapause of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Hanoi, Northern Vietnam
(Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America, 2015-08-18)We studied the winter activity of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) from November 2008 to April 2009 in Bat Trang village of Hanoi, Vietnam. We selected 12 houses and collected: 1) adults with BG sentinel traps, 2) pupae from ... -
Zoonotic Agents in Feral Pigeons (Columba livia) from Costa Rica: Possible Improvements to Diminish Contagion Risks
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2018-01)Most studies on zoonotic agents in pigeons have been conducted in the Palearctic region, but the scarcity of data is notorious in the Neotropical region, where these birds can breed all year around and are in close contact ... -
Zymodeme and serodeme characterization of Leishmania Isolates obtained from Costa Rican patients
(Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1998-05)Human leishmaniasis is widespread through- out Central America and constitutes an important public health problem. Annual incidence is esti- mated to be about 20,000 cases (Carreira et al. 1995), of which 4,000 to ...
