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COVID-19 en las Américas ¿Un problema de salud pública, o una Zoonosis?
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2020-04-24)
as recomendaciones de las organizaciones internacionales orientadas a la salud, así como la experiencia de países en la aplicación de medidas para controlar los efectos del COVID-19, suponen el reto de contextualizar y ...
Prevalence, infected density or individual probability of infection? Assessing vector infection risk in the wild transmission of Chagas disease
(2020-03-11)
Vector-borne infectious disease dynamics result mainly from the intertwined effect of the diversity, abundance, and behaviour of hosts and vectors. Most studies, however, have analysed the relationship between host-species ...
Potential for broad-scale transmission of Ebola virus disease during the West Africa crisis: lessons for the Global Health security agenda
(2017)
Abstract
Background
The 2014–2016 Ebola crisis in West Africa had approximately eight times as many reported deaths as the sum of all previous Ebola outbreaks. The outbreak ...
Comparative repeatome analysis on Triatoma infestans Andean and Non-Andean lineages, main vector of Chagas disease
(PLoS, 2017)
Triatoma infestans is the most important Chagas disease vector in South America. Two main evolutionary lineages, named Andean and non-Andean, have been recognized by geographical distribution, phenetic and genetic ...
Person-to-Person Household and Nosocomial Transmission of Andes Hantavirus, Southern Chile, 2011
(Centers for Desease Control and Prevention, 2014)
Andes hantavirus (ANDV) causes hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in Chile and is the only hantavirus for which person-to-person transmission has been proven. We describe an outbreak of 5 human cases of ANDV infection in ...