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High Prevalence of Congenital Trypanosoma cruzi Infection and Family Clustering in Salta, Argentina
(American Academy of Pediatrics, 2005-06-06)
Objective.Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas’ disease, is transmitted mainly by insect vectors, but congenital and transfusion-borne infections occasionally occur. The factors that are involved in transmission ...
Artificial Lighting as a Vector Attractant and Cause of Disease Diffusion
(US DEPT HEALTH HUMAN SCIENCES PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE, 2010)
BACKGROUND: Traditionally, epidemiologists have considered electrification to be a positive factor. In fact, electrification and plumbing are typical initiatives that represent the integration of an isolated population ...
Vector competence of Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes for Mayaro virus
(Public Library of Science, 2020)
Blood-meal sources and trypanosoma cruzi infection in coastal and insular triatomine bugs from the Atacama Desert of Chile
(MDPI, 2022)
Mepraia parapatrica is one of the lesser known and less abundant sylvatic triatomine species naturally infected by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease. M. parapatrica lives in sympatry ...
Recent Developments in Nanotechnology for Detection and Control of Aedes aegypti-Borne Diseases
(2020-02-20)
Arboviruses such as yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya and zika are transmitted mainly by the mosquito vector Aedes aegypti. Especially in the tropics, inefficacy of mosquito control causes arboviruses outbreaks every year, ...
Acute Vector-Borne Viral Infection: Zika and MinION Surveillance
(American Society for Microbiology, 2019)
Novel bartonella agent as cause of verruga peruana
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013)
While studying chronic verruga peruana infections in Peru from 2003, we isolated a novel Bartonella agent, which we propose be named Candidatus Bartonella ancashi. This case reveals the inherent weakness of relying solely ...
Dissemination of visceral leishmaniasis to Western Argentina: When will imported canine vector-borne zoonotic diseases start being local?
(Comité Editorial Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection, 2020)
Scrub Typhus in Continental Chile, 2016-2018 1
(National Center for Infectious Diseases, 2019)
Endemic scrub typhus was recently detected on Chiloé Island in southern Chile. We report a series of cases, acquired over a wide geographical range in continental Chile during 2016-2018, demonstrating that this emerging ...