Publications by authors named "A Garcia-Vasquez"
During spring 2024, a heat wave induced sustained water temperatures of 34°C during a week in Veracruz, Mexico. Serendipitously, we monitored Gyrodactylus cichlidarum infecting farmed tilapia fry during this pulse warming event and recorded a drastic decline of parasite populations over the following days. We subsequently established that parasites incubated in vitro at ca.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study was performed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a lyophilised amniotic membrane (LAM) as a patch for the treatment of retinal breaks and to describe the structural changes at the implantation site.
Design: Prospective, interventional case series study. Patients with diabetic retinopathy and combined tractional and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
Northward migration past the nearctic biogeographical divide; neotropical Gyrodactylus spp. infecting Astyanax have crossed the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.
Int J Parasitol
January 2025
Article Synopsis
- The genus Astyanax, a type of neotropical fish, and their helminth parasites, migrated from South America to North America during the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI), leading to their distribution in Mexico and the USA.
- The study characterizes the monogenean parasites Gyrodactylus infecting two species of Astyanax in Mexico, confirming existing species and describing two new ones based on morphological and genetic analyses.
- The research indicates a pattern of gradual divergence among gyrodactylid species as their fish hosts adapted to new environments north of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, with some species exclusively found north of this transition zone.
Introduction: Maculopathy secondary to pathologic myopia (PM) is increasingly causing visual impairment and blindness worldwide. PM is associated with tractional maculopathy that ranges from macular foveoschisis to macular hole. These disorders are treated with different options that offer variable results, reflecting the need for new techniques that address myopic maculopathy with consistent outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe describe two new species of monogenean parasites of the genus von Nordmann, 1832 infecting Neotropical catfishes (Siluriformes) in southern Mexico: n. sp. from 'chulín', collected in Oaxaca; and n.
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