• Dirofilaria immitis in dog imported from Venezuela to Chile 

    Álvarez Rojas, Cristian A; Cancino-Faure, Beatriz ORCID; Lillo, Pablo; Fernández, María Luisa; Piñeiro González, Alejandro; Flores Ramírez, Alonso (2023)
    We report a case of Dirofilaria immitis nematode infection in a dog imported from Venezuela that had been living for 2 years in Santiago, Chile, where this parasite had not been reported before. Our findings warrant ...

  • Filarial nematodes in domestic dogs and mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from semi-rural areas in Central Chile 

    Cancino-Faure, Beatriz ORCID; González, Christian R.; Piñeiro González, Alejandro; Pinochet, Soledad; Bustos, Sofía; Morchón García, Rodrigo; Piñeiro Cazaux, Alejandro; Quezada Aguilar, Ivonne; Salas Espinoza, Merayot; Acevedo Salgado, Rodrigo; Barra Díaz, Carmen; Segovia C., Christian; Lozada-Yavina, Rafael; Álvarez Rojas, Cristian A (2023)
    Climate change, competent vectors, and reservoir animals are the main factors for developing vector-borne zoonotic diseases. These diseases encompass a significant and widespread category of pathogens (e.g., viruses, ...