Background Leptospira are shed into the environment via urine of infected animals. Rivers are thought to be an important risk factor for transmission to humans, though much is unknown about the types of environment or characteristics that favor survival. To address this, we screened for Leptospira...
Large painted locusts are one of most beautiful and colorful creatures on Galapagos Islands. They are endemic to Ecuador Island of Galapagos. They are very small in size, only grows up o 8 cm in length. This group of insects also become main prey for Galapagos hawks and lava lizards. 8Dar...
The environmental conditions that the species are exposed to, coupled with the restrictions set by the geographical location of the species habitat (e.g. a landmass surrounded by a vast body of water), help determine the kinds of animals and plants that can thrive and propagate at a ...
Endemic mycoses such as histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, blastomycosis, paracoccidioidomycosis, and talaromycosis are well-known causes of focal and systemic disease within specific geographic areas of known endemicity. However, over the past few decades, there have been increasingly frequent reports of ...
The variable “existence of livestock” and other independent demographic, social and behavioural variables were tested as potential determinants for malaria prevalence by multivariate logistic regressions. Results Raising medium-sized animals in the house was a significant predictor of malaria prevalence (...
AnimalsHumansLeishmania mexicanaPsychodidaeLeishmaniasis, CutaneousLongitudinal StudiesTime FactorsEcuadorFemaleIn order to collect information on the role of Lutzomyia ayacuchensis in the transmission of leishmaniasis in a newly discovered Andean endemic focus in Ecuador, a longitudinal field study was ...
San Salvador Island, one of the Galapagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific Ocean about 600 miles (965 km) west of mainland Ecuador. Its relief is dominated by two volcanoes, the larger rising to 1,700 feet (520 m), that form the mass of the island’s area