Shedding light on risk: Seroprevalence of Q fever among farm animals and workers in Ecuador

Autor: Mónica Salomé Guerrero-Freire, Yanua Ledesma, Gustavo Echeverría, Federico Carlos Blanco, Jacobus H. de Waard

Publikováno v: One Health, Vol 19, Iss , Pp 100939- (2024)

Q fever, caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii, is a zoonotic disease that has been largely overlooked despite presenting significant risks to both animal and public health. Although well studied in some countries, in most countries in Latin Amer

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The Development of a Multiplex PCR Assay for Fast and Cost-Effective Identification of the Five Most Significant Pathogenic Prototheca Species

Autor: David Vasco-Julio, María Huilca-Ibarra, Yanua Ledesma, Gustavo Echeverria, Salome Guerrero-Freire, Tomasz Jagielski, Carlos Bastidas-Caldes, Jacobus H. de Waard

Publikováno v: Pathogens, Vol 12, Iss 8, p 1018 (2023)

A multiplex PCR system (m-PCR) has been developed to accurately differentiate the five most important pathogenic Prototheca species, including the three species associated with infection in dairy cattle (P. ciferrii, P. blaschkeae, and P. bovis) and

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First Case Reports of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Lung Disease in Ecuador: Important Lessons to Learn

Autor: Gustavo Echeverria, Veronica Rueda, Wilson Espinoza, Carlos Rosero, Martín J. Zumárraga, Jacobus H. de Waard

Publikováno v: Pathogens, Vol 12, Iss 4, p 507 (2023)

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) lung infections are often misdiagnosed as tuberculosis, which can lead to ineffective antibiotic treatments. In this report, we present three cases of NTM lung infections in Ecuador that were initially diagnosed and

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Towards the Development of Microbial Ecotoxicology Testing Using Chlorpyrifos Contaminated Sediments and Marine Yeast Isolates as a Model

Autor: Gustavo Echeverri-Jaramillo, Beatriz Jaramillo-Colorado, Howard Junca, Claudia Consuegra-Mayor

Publikováno v: Microorganisms, Vol 10, Iss 10, p 2019 (2022)

Chlorpyrifos (CP), a widely used pesticide, and its metabolite 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol (3,5,6-TCP), are xenobiotic compounds detected in many biomes, notably in marine sediments, all over the world. These compounds are posing a serious environmen

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Control of paratuberculosis: who, why and how. A review of 48 countries

Autor: Richard Whittington, Karsten Donat, Maarten F. Weber, David Kelton, Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Suzanne Eisenberg, Norma Arrigoni, Ramon Juste, Jose Luis Sáez, Navneet Dhand, Annalisa Santi, Anita Michel, Herman Barkema, Petr Kralik, Polychronis Kostoulas, Lorna Citer, Frank Griffin, Rob Barwell, Maria Aparecida Scatamburlo Moreira, Iva Slana, Heike Koehler, Shoor Vir Singh, Han Sang Yoo, Gilberto Chávez-Gris, Amador Goodridge, Matjaz Ocepek, Joseba Garrido, Karen Stevenson, Mike Collins, Bernardo Alonso, Karina Cirone, Fernando Paolicchi, Lawrence Gavey, Md Tanvir Rahman, Emmanuelle de Marchin, Willem Van Praet, Cathy Bauman, Gilles Fecteau, Shawn McKenna, Miguel Salgado, Jorge Fernández-Silva, Radka Dziedzinska, Gustavo Echeverría, Jaana Seppänen, Virginie Thibault, Vala Fridriksdottir, Abdolah Derakhshandeh, Masoud Haghkhah, Luigi Ruocco, Satoko Kawaji, Eiichi Momotani, Cord Heuer, Solis Norton, Simeon Cadmus, Angelika Agdestein, Annette Kampen, Joanna Szteyn, Jenny Frössling, Ebba Schwan, George Caldow, Sam Strain, Mike Carter, Scott Wells, Musso Munyeme, Robert Wolf, Ratna Gurung, Cristobal Verdugo, Christine Fourichon, Takehisa Yamamoto, Sharada Thapaliya, Elena Di Labio, Monaya Ekgatat, Andres Gil, Alvaro Nuñez Alesandre, José Piaggio, Alejandra Suanes, Jacobus H. de Waard

Publikováno v: BMC Veterinary Research, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-29 (2019)

Abstract Paratuberculosis, a chronic disease affecting ruminant livestock, is caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP). It has direct and indirect economic costs, impacts animal welfare and arouses public health concerns. In a surv

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