Zoonotic parasitism in dogs from the department of Vaupés, Colombia / Parasitismo zoonótico em cães do departamento de Vaupés, Colômbia

Objective: To determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitism and relevant public health zoonotic ectoparasites in canines of indigenous communities of the Colombian Amazon. Materials and methods: This study included 421 canines from 68 communities, whose owners participated voluntarily in educational talks, interviews, and epidemiological surveys. Fecal samples were obtained by rectal palpation, and they were processed using the formalin-gasoline concentration technique. Double-blind triplicate microscopic analysis was carried out. Results: Parasite infection occurred in 89.8% of the samples, 57.7% protozoans and 73.9% helminthes. Hookworms were noteworthy, including Toxocara spp., Strongyloides spp., Alaria spp., and Giardia spp., among others. Ectoparasites were found in 32.8% of the cases. Conclusion: Our study showed the potential risk of transmission of zoonotic infections by canine parasites and the possibility of jungle transmission of the rabies virus, which require intervention with preventive and control programs by the health sector. 

Lista preliminar de los peces del río Papunahua, cuenca del río Inírida - departamento del Vaupés, Colombia

Fish sampling in the Papunahua river (Inírida river basin-colombian Orinoco) (october and november 2005) revealed 86 fish species grouped in 64 genera, 28 families, and 8 orders. Orders with the largest numbers of species were Characiformes (42 species), Siluriformes (21), and Perciformes (9), with the remaining 5 orders having from 1 to 7 species. At the family level, the Characidae has the greatest number of species (24 species), followed by Cichlidae (9), and Anostomidae (6). The remaining 25 families having 1 to 5 species

Lista preliminar de los peces del río Papunahua, cuenca del río Inírida - departamento del Vaupés, Colombia

Fish sampling in the Papunahua river (Inírida river basin-colombian Orinoco) (october and november 2005) revealed 86 fish species grouped in 64 genera, 28 families, and 8 orders. Orders with the largest numbers of species were Characiformes (42 species), Siluriformes (21), and Perciformes (9), with the remaining 5 orders having from 1 to 7 species. At the family level, the Characidae has the greatest number of species (24 species), followed by Cichlidae (9), and Anostomidae (6). The remaining 25 families having 1 to 5 species.Los muestreos realizados entre octubre y noviembre de 2005 en el río Papunahua (cuenca del río Inírida - Orinoquía colombiana), registran una riqueza de 86 especies de peces agrupadas 64 géneros, 28 familias y 8 órdenes. Los órdenes con el mayor número de especies fueron Characiformes (42 especies), Siluriformes (21 especies), Perciformes (9 especies) y los restantes cinco órdenes tienen de una a siete especies. Al nivel de familia, Characidae posee el mayor número de especies (24), seguida de Cichlidae (nueve), Anostomidae (seis) y las restantes 25 familias tienen de una a cinco especies

Lista preliminar de los peces del río Papunahua, cuenca del río Inírida - departamento del Vaupés, Colombia

Fish sampling in the Papunahua river (Inírida river basin-colombian Orinoco) (october and november 2005) revealed 86 fish species grouped in 64 genera, 28 families, and 8 orders. Orders with the largest numbers of species were Characiformes (42 species), Siluriformes (21), and Perciformes (9), with the remaining 5 orders having from 1 to 7 species. At the family level, the Characidae has the greatest number of species (24 species), followed by Cichlidae (9), and Anostomidae (6). The remaining 25 families having 1 to 5 species

Integrated survey methodologies for neglected tropical diseases.

The 2021-2030 Neglected Tropical Diseases road map calls for intensified cross-cutting approaches. By moving away from vertical programming, the integration of platforms and intervention delivery aims to improve efficiency, cost-effectiveness and programme coverage. Drawing on the direct experiences of the authors, this article outlines key elements for successful integrated surveys, the challenges encountered, as well as future opportunities and threats to such surveys. There are multiple advantages. Careful planning should ensure that integration does not result in a process that is less efficient, more expensive or that generates data driving less reliable decisions than conducting multiple disease-specific surveys

TUNGIASIS EN POBLACIÓN INDÍGENA DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE VAUPÉS. Epidemiología, clínica, tratamiento y prevención.

<p>*Este trabajo es un resumen de la versión original, que se publica en Biomédica 32 (2): junio, 2010. Se publica aquí con la autorización de los editores de Biomédica.</p><div id="stcpDiv"><h3>Resumen</h3><p><strong>Introducción</strong>: La tungiasis o infestación cutánea por la pulga Tunga penetrans ocurre en comunidades muy pobres. Las pulgas penetran la piel (usualmente de los pies), produciendo rasquiña y luego dolor. La mayoría de las veces la enfermedad se resuelve sola pero en casos severos pueden presentarse deformidades que llevan a infección secundaria y a tétanos.</p><p><strong>Objetivo</strong>: Estudiar la entidad en indígenas del Vaupés.</p><p><strong>Métodos</strong>: 1. Revisar el tema. 2. Describir el área y la vivienda. 3. Detectar animales con la zoonosis. 4. Ilustrar la clínica y las complicaciones. 5. Tratar los pacientes y los animales con creolina. 6. Modificar el piso de las malocas en dos comunidades, con humectación y arcillado de piso. 7. Educación comunitaria.</p><p><strong>Resultados</strong>: 95 % de los 33.000 habitantes del Vaupés son indígenas. Algunos moran en viviendas de piso arenoso, seco, con detritos alimenticios y perros con tungiasis. Entre 1996-2007 confirmamos 942 casos del parasitismo o 3-8/1000 de los indígenas estudiados; y un 62 % de los perros presentaron tungiasis. Los pies se afectaron en el 98 % de los pacientes. Casos graves con más de 20 lesiones ocurrieron en niños y ancianos. Complicaciones: infección secundaria, dolor, anoniquia, artejos deformados, amputados e imposibilidad para la marcha. Hubo sepsis mortal en tres pacientes. Los baños con creolina y la extracción del parásito fueron curativos, en hombres y animales. La modificación de los pisos redujo a cero la enfermedad en una comunidad.</p><p><strong>Conclusiones</strong>: 1. La enfermedad es intra-domiciliaria. El piso de la vivienda y la convivencia con perros infestados son ideales para adquirirla. 2. La creolina, humectar el piso y arcillarlo controlaron un foco de la enfermedad, actividad que podría generalizarse. 3. Esta es la primera investigación colombiana sobre tungiasis, conocida desde que afectó a los soldados de Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.</p><p><strong>Palabras clave:</strong> Tungiasis, Tunga penetrans , pulgas, zoonosis, ectoparasitosis, anoniquia, sepsis, pobreza, indígenas, Colombia, Vaupés.</p><p><strong>TUNGIASIS IN NATIVE AMERINDIANS IN VAUPÉS PROVINCE: EPIDEMIOLOGY, CLINICAL ASPECTS, TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION.</strong></p><h3>Abstract</h3><p><strong>Introduction</strong>: Tungiasis is a skin disease caused by a parasitic jigger flea called Tunga penetrans which is found in depressed tropical communities. The female fleas are embedded into the skin (usually in the feet) and cause localized itching and then pain. In most cases the condition resolves itself but severe infestation can cause deformity, existing the risk of secondary infection and tetanus.</p><p><strong>Objective</strong>: <strong>To study tungiasis seen</strong> in Vaupes native indians.</p><p><strong>Methods</strong>: To review the subject, to describe areas and housing conditions where this happens, to screen for sick animals suffering from these zoonoses, to describe clinical findings and complications of the disease, to treat both patients and animals with creolin; to modify the ground in houses (“malocas”) of two communities, humidifying and placing clay in floors; and to educate the community.</p><p><strong>Results</strong>: 95 % of 33.000 people living in Vaupes are native indians. Some live in houses with sandy ground, dry, with food waste spilled throughout the floor and sheltering infected dogs. Between 1996-2007 we were able to confirm 942 cases of this parasitic disease. Tungiasis was present in 3-8/1000 of studied native indians and 62 % of dogs. 98% of patients feet had lesions. Serious cases with more than 20 lesions occurred in children and elderly patients. Complications observed were secondary infection, pain, anonychia, deformed or amputated toefingers, inability to walk. Three patients had fatal sepsis. Spilling creoline in restrooms and pulling out parasite from both sick human and domestic animals was curative. Community incidence of disease went down to zero once floors were modified.</p><p><strong>Conclusions</strong>: 1. This <strong>is an in-house condition</strong>. Housing floors and living with infected dogs are main risk factors to acquire this condition. 2. Creolin and floor humidification –claying it afterwards- were strategies able to control a source of disease, action that could be <strong>expanded</strong>. 3. This study is the very first one about tungiasis carried out in Colombia; thecondition is known here after infection spreaded out among spanish soldiers serving under commander Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.</p><p><strong>Key words</strong>: Tungiasis, Tunga penetrans , jigger fleas, zoonoses, ectoparasitosis, anonychia, sepsis, poverty, native indians, Colombia, Vaupes.</p></div&gt

Lista preliminar de los peces del río Papunahua, cuenca del río Inírida - departamento del Vaupés, Colombia

Los muestreos realizados entre octubre y noviembre de 2005 en el río Papunahua (cuenca del río Inírida - Orinoquía colombiana), registran una riqueza de 86 especies de peces agrupadas 64 géneros, 28 familias y 8 órdenes. Los órdenes con el mayor número de especies fueron Characiformes (42 especies), Siluriformes (21 especies), Perciformes (9 especies) y los restantes cinco órdenes tienen de una a siete especies. Al nivel de familia, Characidae posee el mayor número de especies (24), seguida de Cichlidae (nueve), Anostomidae (seis) y las restantes 25 familias tienen de una a cinco especies.Artículo revisado por pare

Biodiversidad en la cuenca del Orinoco. Bases científicas para la identificación de áreas prioritarias para la conservación y uso sostenible de la biodiversidad

Es un placer para el Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt presentar a la comunidad científica, conservacionista y autoridades ambientales de Colombia y Venezuela la obra Biodiversidad de la cuenca del Orinoco: bases científicas para la identificación de áreas prioritarias para la conservación y el uso sostenible de la biodiversidad. Este libro es fruto de un esfuerzo de una década de trabajo y recoge numerosos proyectos de carácter institucional que han venido desarrollándose en la Orinoquia, incluyendo el Plan de acción en biodiversidad para la cuenca del Orinoco (2005-2015), además de los resultados de reuniones técnicas de carácter binacional