Browsing Artículos Científicos by Author "2e3b31f3-fc62-411c-94e8-80f9ee06562d"

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    • Boid inclusion body disease is also a disease of wild Boa Constrictors 

      Alfaro-Alarcón, Alejandro; Hetzel, Udo; Smura, Teemu; Baggio, Francesca; Morales, Juan Alberto; Kipar, Anja; Hepojokib, Jussi (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 ...

    • Hallazgos post-mortem y caracterización bacteriana de salmonelosis septicémica equina: Descripción de un caso. 

      Segura, Enid; Rojas Sánchez, Ernesto; Murillo, Carla; Razquín, Patricio; Alfaro-Alarcón, Alejandro; MUNOZ VARGAS, LOHENDY; BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS (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 ...

    • Neutrophils exert a suppressive effect on Th1 responses to intracellular pathogen Brucella abortus 

      BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS; Martirosyan, Anna; Ordoñez-Rueda, Diana; Arce-Gorvel, Vilma; Alfaro-Alarcón, Alejandro; Lepidi, Hubert; Malissen, Bernard; Malissen, Marie; Gorvel, Jean-Pierre; Moreno, Edgardo (PLoS Pathogens, 2013-02-14)
      Polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) are the first line of defense against microbial pathogens. In addition to their role in innate immunity, PMNs may also regulate events related to adaptive immunity. To investigate the ...

    • Passive epidemiological surveillance in wildlife in Costa Rica identifies pathogens of zoonotic and conservation importance 

      Aguilar-Vargas, Fernando; Solórzano-Scott, Tamara; Baldi, Mario; BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS; Jiménez Rocha, Ana Eugenia; Jiménez, Carlos; Piche-Ovares, María Marta; Dolz, Gaby; León, Bernal; Corrales-Aguilar, Eugenia; Santoro, Mario; Alfaro-Alarcón, Alejandro (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, ...

    • Prototecosis en caninos en Costa Rica: ¿cuándo sospechar y qué buscar? 

      Campos González, Natalia B.; Calderón Hernández, Alejandra; Valverde-Altamirano, Erika; Alfaro-Alarcón, Alejandro (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 ...

    • Serosurvey in two rural areas evidences recent and previously undetected WNV and SLEV circulation in Costa Rica 

      Piche-Ovares, María Marta; Romero-Vega, L. Mario; Vargas-González, Diana; Barrantes-Murillo, Daniel; Soto-Garita, Claudio; Francisco-Llamas, Jennifer; Alfaro-Alarcón, Alejandro; Jiménez, Carlos; Corrales-Aguilar, Eugenia (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 ...