| sylvatic focus of american trypanosomiasis in the state of morelos, mexico. | wild vectors and reservoir hosts of trypanosoma cruzi were surveyed from february 1993 to june 1994 in ticumán (18 degrees 46'n, 99 degrees 07'w), mexico (deciduous tropical forest). direct faeces examination showed that 87% of triatoma pallidipennis hosted the parasite; t. cruzi forms were present in cultures inoculated with faeces of fifty 67% triatomine bugs and thirty cd-1 strain mice (10 d old) inoculated (peritoneum) with faeces of positive insects t. cruzi amastigotes were found in heart ... | 2001 | 11935921 |
| environmental conditions favoring bat infection with histoplasma capsulatum in mexican shelters. | histoplasma capsulatum was isolated from gut, lung, liver, and spleen of 17 of 208 captured bats belonging to 6 different genera and species. three of the 17 infected bats were from the state of guerrero and 14 were from the state of morelos. all were adult bats: 6 males (1 pteronotus parnellii, 2 natalus stramineus, 2 artibeus hirsutus, and 1 leptonycteris nivalis) and 11 females (1 myotis californicus, 1 mormoops megalophylla, 8 a. hirsutus, and 1 l. nivalis). high rates of bat infection with ... | 1999 | 10674670 |
| a new spirurid (nematoda) parasite from mormoopid bats in mexico. | a new nematode species, spirura mexicana n. sp., is described from specimens recovered from the esophageal mucosa of the parnell's mustached bat pteronotus parnellii , davy's naked-backed bat pteronotus davyi, wagner's mustached bat pteronotus personatus, and the ghost-faced bat mormoops megalophylla in the state of morelos, mexico. this nematode is characterized by having a relatively short prostoma, 5-6 pairs of caudal papillae, and a smooth distal end of the tail in females. this is the first ... | 2012 | 22509820 |