Publications

chagas disease in an area of recent occupation in cochabamba, bolivia.	a descriptive, entomological and seroepidemiological study on chagas disease was conducted in a place of recent occupation on the outskirts of cochabamba, bolivia: avaroa/primer de mayo (population:3,000), where the socio-economic level is low and no control measures have been made available.	1999	10456995
trypanosoma cruzi (kinetoplastida trypanosomatidae): ecology of the transmission cycle in the wild environment of the andean valley of cochabamba, bolivia.	an active trypanosoma cruzi transmission cycle maintained by wild rodents in the andean valleys of cochabamba bolivia is described. wild and domestic triatoma infestans with 60% infection with t. cruzi were found and was evidenced in 47.5% (rodents) and 26.7% (marsupial) by parasitological and/or serologycal methods. phyllotis ocilae and the marsupial species thylamys elegans, are the most important reservoirs followed by bolomys lactens and akodon boliviensis. in spite of both genotypes (tci an ...	2006	16797540
urban transmission of chagas disease in cochabamba, bolivia.	chagas disease is a major public health problem in bolivia. in the city of cochabamba, 58% of the population lives in peripheral urban districts ("popular zones") where the infection prevalence is extremely high. from 1995 to 1999, we studied the demographics of chagas infections in children from five to 13 years old (n = 2218) from the south zone (sz) and north zone (nz) districts, which differ in social, environmental, and agricultural conditions. information gathered from these districts demo ...	2008	18797753
rickettsia infection in dogs and rickettsia parkeri in amblyomma tigrinum ticks, cochabamba department, bolivia.	only few published data are available on ticks and tick-borne zoonotic pathogens in bolivia. to evaluate rickettsial seroprevalence and infection in dogs and ticks, during february-april 2007, we collected whole blood, sera, and ticks from dogs living in the rural, peri-urban, and urban areas of cochabamba, bolivia. dog sera were subjected to enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test to detect igg antibodies against rickettsia rickettsii and 68.2% of samples were found to be positive (n = 30; 95% c ...	2010	20426684
prevalence of leishmania spp. infection in domestic dogs in chapare, bolivia.	data on leishmania spp. infection in dogs in bolivia is scarce. dogs from an area where 90% of human cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) cases are due to leishmania (viannia) braziliensis were screened for leishmania infection using established enzyme-linked immunosorbent antibody test (elisa) protocols. although none of the 51 dogs surveyed had clinical lesions indicative of cl, 6 out of 51 (11.8%) sampled dogs tested positive by elisa.	2010	21146310