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    • First parasitological study of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis, Amphibia) in Chile 
      Castillo, Cristobal; Lobos, Gabriel; González Acuña, Daniel; Moreno, Lucila; González, Cynthya Elizabeth; Landaeta Aqueveque, Carlos (Brazilian College of Veterinary Parasitology, 2017)
      Introduced species can arrive into new territories with parasites; however, these species are expected to face lower parasite richness than in their original regions. Both introduced hosts and parasites can affect native ...
    • Natural infection of leptospira species in the native rodents degu (Octodon degus) and Darwin's Pericote ... 
      Correa, Juana P.; Bacigalupo, Antonella; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Bucarey Vivanco, Sergio; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; García de Cortázar, Rodrigo; Landaeta Aqueveque, Carlos; Ramírez Estrada, Juan (Wildlife Disease Assoc, Inc., 2017)
      We report natural infections by pathogenic Leptospira of two rodent species endemic to Chile: the degu (Octodon degus) and Darwin's pericote (Phyllotis darwini). We detected Leptospira DNA in kidney and urine samples taken ...
    • Renal carriage of Leptospira species in rodents from Mediterranean Chile: The Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) ... 
      Correa, Juana P.; Bucarey Vivanco, Sergio; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Landaeta Aqueveque, Carlos; Ramírez Estrada, Juan (Elsevier, 2017)
      We evaluated the renal carriage of Leptospira species in rodent communities from Mediterranean Chile using a PCR technique. We found that animals inhabiting agricultural areas were almost three times more infected than in ...