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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 ...
Environmental forcing shapes regional house mosquito synchrony in a warming temperate island
(BioOne, 2013)
Seasonal changes in the abundance of exothermic organisms can be expected with
climate change if warmer temperatures can induce changes in their phenology. Given the increased
time for ectothermic organism development ...
Confirman presencia de encefalitis en caballos y personas
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2016-09)
Un estudio reciente, realizado de forma conjunta entre las universidades Nacional (UNA) y de Costa Rica (UCR), reveló que en los últimos siete años se han registrado 183 muestras positivas a arbovirus causantes de encefalitis ...
Mosquito biodiversity patterns around urban environments in South-central okinawa island, Japan
(The American Mosquito Control Association, Inc., 2014)
Okinawa is the largest, most urbanized, and densely populated island in the Ryukyus
Archipelago, where mosquito species diversity has been thoroughly studied. However, the south-central
Okinawa mosquito fauna has been ...
The Impact of Deforestation, Urbanization, and Changing Land Use Patterns on the Ecology of Mosquito and Tick-Borne Diseases in Central America
(MDPI, 2021)
Central America is a unique geographical region that connects North and South America,
enclosed by the Caribbean Sea to the East, and the Pacific Ocean to the West. This region, encom-
passing Belize, Costa Rica, ...
Estudio de la actividad larvicida y la composición fitoquímica asociada de extractos de plantas para el control del mosquito Aedes aegypti.
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)
El mosquito Aedes aegypti es vector de diversas enfermedades tropicales como lo son el
dengue, Zika, chikungunya, Mayaro y fiebre amarilla, las cuales cobran la vida de cientos de
personas cada año, principalmente en ...