Browsing Artículos Científicos by Subject "LEISHMANIASIS"
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Atypical cutaneous leishmaniasis in a semiarid region of north-west Costa Rica
(Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1989)An outbreak of an unusual cutaneous disease was observed during 1986-1987 in about 200 persons, mainly children, in a few neighbourhoods of the town of Liberia, Guanacaste Province, north-west Costa Rica. Most of the ... -
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and sand fly fluctuations are associated with El Niño in Panamá
(PLOS ONE, 2014-10)Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is a neglected tropical vector-borne disease. Sand fly vectors (SF) and Leishmania spp parasites are sensitive to changes in weather conditions, rendering disease transmission susceptible to ... -
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in dogs: Is high seroprevalence indicative of a reservoir role?
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-05-20)American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is a complex disease with a rich diversity of animal host species. This diversity imposes a challenge, since understanding ACL transmission requires the adequate identification of ... -
First report of Lutzomyia (Psychodopygus) bispinosa Fairchild and Hertig (Diptera. Psychodidae) from Costa Rica.
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 1992)Lutzomyia bispinosa had been reported from Belize (Williams 1970), Guatemala (Portes et al. 1987). Honduras (Fairchild and Hertig 1959), Nicaragua (Fairchild an Hertig 1959) and Panamá (Fairchild and Hertig 1951) which ... -
Indices de similitud entre taxocenosis de t1ebótomos (Diptera: Psychodidae) en un área endémica de leishmaniasis cutánea en Costa Rica
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 1993-12-01)A comparison of diversity between eight Costa Rican taxocenosis of phlebotorninae sandflies was made with the Sorensen sirnilarity coefficient. Sites Agua Blanca-Chirraca (C = 0.68), Ceiba Este-Chirraca (C = 0.66), La ... -
Leishmania spp. infection rate and feeding patterns of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from a hyperendemic cutaneous leishmaniasis community in Panamá
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2019)Abstract. American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is a common and important vector-borne parasitic zoonosis in Panam ´a. Here, we study Leishmania spp. infection rates and blood-feeding patterns among common sand flies in ... -
Leishmaniasis sand fly vector density reduction is less marked in destitute housing after insecticide thermal fogging
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Insecticide thermal fogging (ITF) is a tool to control vector borne diseases. Insecticide application success for vector control has been associated with housing materials and architecture. Vector abundance ... -
Macroecological patterns of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis transmission across the health areas of Panamá (1980–2012)
(Elsevier B.V, 2016-03-18)American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) is a neglected vector-borne zoonosis that persists despite increasing socio-economic development and urbanization in Panamá. Here, we investigate the association between environmental ... -
Nestedness patterns of sand fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) species in a neotropical semi-arid environment
(Elsevier, 2016)A common pattern in neotropical Leishmania spp. transmission is the co-occurrence of several sand fly (SF) species at endemic foci. We collected 13 SF spp. by direct aspiration in natural resting places (NRP) and 10 SF ... -
Peridomiciliary latrines and Phlebotominae sandfties (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a focus of Leishmaniasis in Costa Rica.
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 1991)Las letrinas peridomiciliarias son sitios de reposo de flebótomos en Nazareth ( Guanacaste, Costa Rica). Un total de 622 individuos fueron colectados y clasificados en cuatro especies, Lutzomyia cayennensis (58 .. 68 %), ... -
Survey of wild mammal hosts of cutaneous Leishmaniasis parasites in Panamá and Costa Rica
(The Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine, 2014-12-06)The eco-epidemiology of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is driven by animal reservoir species that are a source of infection for sand flies that serve as vectors infecting humans with Leishmania spp parasites. The ... -
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 ...