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  • Clustering of Necropsy-Confirmed Porcine Cysticercosis Surrounding Taenia solium Tapeworm Carriers in Peru 
    Lescano Guevara, Andres Guillermo; Pray, I.W.; Gonzalez Zariquiey, Armando Emiliano; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Tsang, V.C.W.; Gamboa Morán, Ricardo; Guezala, M.C.; Aybar, V.; Rodriguez, S.; Moulton, L.H.; Leontsini, E.; Gonzalvez, G.; O'Neal, Seth E.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2019)
    The pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, is among the leading causes of preventable epilepsy in the world and is common in rural areas of developing countries where sanitation is limited and pigs have access to human feces. Prior ...
  • A country bug in the city: Urban infestation by the Chagas disease vector Triatoma infestans in Arequipa, Peru 
    Delgado, Stephen; Ernst, Kacey C.; Pumahuanca, María Luz Hancco; Yool, Stephen R.; Comrie, Andrew C.; Sterling, Charles R.; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Levy, Michael Z. (BioMed Central, 2013)
    Background: Interruption of vector-borne transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi remains an unrealized Objetive: in many Latin American countries. The task of vector control is complicated by the emergence of vector insects in ...
  • Seasonal patterns in risk factors for Taenia solium transmission: A GPS tracking study of pigs and open human defecation in northern Peru 
    Pray, Ian W.; Muro Ecca, Claudio Alberto; Gamboa Morán, Ricardo; Vilchez Barreto, Percy Mcquen; Wakeland, Wayne; Pan, William; Lambert, William E.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; O'Neal, Seth E. (BioMed Central, 2019)
    BACKGROUND: Taenia solium (cysticercosis) is a parasitic cestode that is endemic in rural populations where open defecation is common and free-roaming pigs have access to human feces. The purpose of this study was to ...
  • Socio-spatial heterogeneity in participation in mass dog rabies vaccination campaigns, Arequipa, Peru. 
    Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Toledo, Amparo M.; Arevalo Nieto, Claudia Rebeca; MacDonald, Hannelore; De la Puente León, Virginia Micaela; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Paz-Soldan Parlette, Valerie Andrea; Buttenheim, Alison M.; Levy, Michael Z. (Public Library of Science, 2019)
    To control and prevent rabies in Latin America, mass dog vaccination campaigns (MDVC) are implemented mainly through fixed-location vaccination points: owners have to bring their dogs to the vaccination points where they ...
  • Spatial Association of Canine Rabies Outbreak and Ecological Urban Corridors, Arequipa, Peru 
    Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Zegarra, Edith; Monroy, Ynes; Bernedo, Reyno F.; Cornejo-Rosello, Ismael; Paz-Soldan Parlette, Valerie Andrea; Levy, Michael Z. (Elsevier, 2017)
    In the city of Arequipa, Peru, a rabid dog was detected in March 2015, marking the reintroduction of the rabies virus in the area; more rabid dogs have been detected since then. The presence of free-roaming dogs in Arequipa ...
  • Travel Time to Health Facilities as a Marker of Geographical Accessibility Across Heterogeneous Land Coverage in Peru 
    Carrasco Escobar, Gabriel; Manrique, E.; Tello-Lizarraga, K.; Miranda, J. Jaime (Frontiers Media, 2020)
    To better estimate the travel time to the most proximate health care facility (HCF) and determine differences across heterogeneous land coverage types, this study explored the use of a novel cloud-based geospatial modeling ...

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