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Serosurvey in two rural areas evidences recent and previously undetected WNV and SLEV circulation in Costa Rica
(medRxiv preprint, 2021-09-13)
West Nile virus (WNV) and Saint Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) share similar virus transmission cycles that involve birds as amplifiers and mosquitoes as vectors. Mammals, including humans, are dead-end-hosts that may be ...
Prototecosis en caninos en Costa Rica: ¿cuándo sospechar y qué buscar?
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2022-01)
La prototecosis es una enfermedad causada por algas saprófitas, no clorofílicas, unicelulares y oportunistas del género
Prototheca, que afecta, principalmente, a animales con inmunodeficiencias. En caninos, con la forma ...
Costa Rica wildlife disease reporting system for preventive medicine and disease Control
(ASTMH, 2020-11)
SARS-COV-2 pandemic evidence that the impact of new zoonotic diseases
can be on both social and economical levels. Since such agents are
originated from wildlife reservoir communities, there’s a need for more
active ...
Hallazgos post-mortem y caracterización bacteriana de salmonelosis septicémica equina: Descripción de un caso.
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2022-07)
Se describe el primer caso, debidamente confirmado, de salmonelosis en un equino en Costa Rica; una potra
iberoamericana de siete meses de edad con un cuadro de diarrea de unas cuatro semanas de transcurso y baja ...
Passive epidemiological surveillance in wildlife in Costa Rica identifies pathogens of zoonotic and conservation importance
(PLoS ONE, 2022-09-26)
Epidemiological surveillance systems for pathogens in wild species have been proposed as
a preventive measure for epidemic events. These systems can minimize the detrimental
effects of an outbreak, but most importantly, ...
Boid inclusion body disease is also a disease of wild Boa Constrictors
(American Society for Microbiology, 2022-09-12)
Reptarenaviruses cause boid inclusion body disease (BIBD), a poten-
tially fatal disease, occurring in captive constrictor snakes boas and pythons
worldwide. Classical BIBD, characterized by the formation of pathognomonic ...