Publications by authors named "Mabel Guerra"
The aim of the study was to diagnose infections with rotavirus and other enteric pathogens in children under five years old with acute gastroenteritis and to identify the most common epidemiological and clinical characteristics of these pathogens. The study was conducted using 110 stool samples from the same number of children under five years old who were inpatients at three paediatric hospitals in Havana, Cuba, between October and December 2011. The samples were tested for rotavirus and other enteric pathogens using traditional and molecular microbiological methods.
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- Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, originally from Africa, invaded the Americas between the 16th and 18th centuries and later caused outbreaks of yellow fever and dengue.
- After being wiped out from many countries in the mid-20th century, they reappeared in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in Bolivia, where their genetic origins and population dynamics were studied.
- Research revealed two distinct genetic lineages of Ae. aegypti in Bolivia, with one lineage linked to rural South Bolivia and suggested to have roots in West Africa, influencing local disease patterns of dengue and yellow fever.