Ecoepidemiology of Chagas Disease in a Biological Corridor in Southeastern Mexico: A Promising Approach to Understand the Risk of Chagas Disease.

Ecoepidemiology is an emerging field that attempts to explain how biotic, environmental, and even social factors influence the dynamics of infectious diseases. Particularly in vector-borne diseases, the study under this approach offers us an overview of the pathogens, vectors, and hosts that coexist in a given region and their ecological determinants. As a result of this, risk predictions can be established in a changing environment and how it may impact human populations.

What Do You Need to Know before Studying Chagas Disease? A Beginner's Guide.

Chagas disease is one of the most important tropical infections in the world and mainly affects poor people. The causative agent is the hemoflagellate protozoan , which circulates among insect vectors and mammals throughout the Americas. A large body of research on Chagas disease has shown the complexity of this zoonosis, and controlling it remains a challenge for public health systems.

Mini-exon gene reveals circulation of TcI (Chagas, 1909) (Kinetoplastida, Trypanosomatidae) in bats and small mammals in an ecological reserve in southeastern Mexico.

A wide variety of mammals are involved in the sylvatic cycle of , the causative agent of Chagas disease. In many areas in Latin America where is endemic, this cycle is poorly known, and its main reservoirs have not been identified. In this study we analyzed infection in bats and other small mammals from an Ecological Reserve in southeastern Mexico.

Effect of climate change on the potential distribution of (Squamata, Helodermatidae).

Climate change represents a real threat to biodiversity conservation worldwide. Although the effects on several species of conservation priority are known, comprehensive information about the impact of climate change on reptile populations is lacking. In the present study, we analyze outcomes on the potential distribution of the black beaded lizard ( Bogert & Martin del Campo, 1956) under global warming scenarios.