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Investigación

Vectores y Enfermedades Transmitidas

Estudia enfermedades transmitidas por garrapatas a animales domésticos, silvestres y humanos, su sistemática y ecología, así como caracoles hospederos intermediarios de trematodes y helmintos de importancia médica y veterinaria.

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Responsable

Dr. José Manuel Venzal

Profesor Agregado (Gdo 4, 40 hs/sem, DT)

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Líneas de investigación

  1. Enfermedades transmitidas por garrapatas

    Enfermedades transmitidas por garrapatas a animales domésticos y silvestres y a humanos.

  2. Sistemática y ecología de vectores

    Sistemática y ecología de garrapatas. Sistemática, ecología y enfermedades transmitidas por vectores (no garrapatas).

  3. Caracoles hospederos intermediarios

    Caracterización molecular y estudios filogenéticos de las distintas especies de caracoles (familias Lymnaeidae y Planorbidae) hospederos intermediarios de trematodes de importancia médica y veterinaria en el Uruguay.

  4. Helmintos de animales domésticos y silvestres

    Caracterización morfológica y molecular de helmintos de interés en animales domésticos y silvestres.

  5. Parasitosis y zoonosis en peces

    Parasitosis y zoonosis parasitarias en peces de interés comercial y deportivo.

Integrantes

S

Sergio Bermúdez

Estudiante de Doctorado (PEDECIBA)

DMTV. María Laura Félix

Asistente (Gdo 2, 40 hs/sem)

V

Valentín Bazzano

Estudiante de Maestría, Facultad de Veterinaria

DCV Rodrigo Alvez Decesari

Asistente (Gdo 2, 35 hs/sem)

Doctorado · Doctorado en Salud Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria · Orientación: Dr. José M. Venzal, Dr. Pablo Parodi

CVUy

Enseñanza

Grado

  • Curso curricular de Parasitología y Enfermedades Parasitarias. Carrera de Doctor en Ciencias Veterinarias, Facultad de Veterinaria, CENUR Litoral Norte - UdelaR

Posgrado

  • "Introducción al diagnóstico molecular orientado fundamentalmente a parásitos" (2021). Curso de posgrado, Facultad de Veterinaria, UdelaR, y del Instituto de Pesquisas Veterinárias Desidério Finamor, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Animal. Dictado online
  • "Taxonomía y métodos de estudio de garrapatas y enfermedades transmitidas en el Cono Sur de América" (2017). Curso de posgrado, Facultad de Veterinaria, UdelaR. Dictado en el CENUR Litoral Norte, Regional Norte
  • "Diagnóstico molecular de enfermedades transmitidas por vectores de importancia médica y veterinaria" (2017). Programa de posgrado de Facultad de Veterinaria, UdelaR y PEDECIBA. Dictado en el CENUR Litoral Norte, Regional Norte

Otras

  • Pasantía de estudiantes de profesorado de Biología del CeRP del Litoral

Publicaciones recientes

  1. Félix ML, Muñoz-Leal S, Carvalho LA, Queirolo D, Remesar S, Armúa-Fernández MT, et al. Characterization of "Candidatus Ehrlichia pampeana" in Haemaphysalis juxtakochi ticks and gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira) from Uruguay. Microorganisms. [Aceptado, en prensa].
  2. Cuervo PF, Flores FS, Venzal JM, Nava S. Niche divergence among closely related taxa provides insight on evolutionary patterns of ticks. Journal of Biogeography. 2021.
  3. Quintero JC, Félix ML, Venzal JM, Nava S. Ixodes tropicalis (Acari: Ixodidae) infesting a human and molecular detection of Rickettsia belli, Colombia. Biomédica. 2021;41(2).
  4. Domínguez AL, Félix ML, Kadoch N, Muñoz-Leal S, Venzal JM. Molecular screening for tick-borne bacteria and hematozoa in Ixodes cf. boliviensis and Ixodes tapirus (Ixodida: Ixodidae) from western highlands of Panama. Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases. 2021;100034.
  5. Labruna MB, Nava S, Rebollo-Hernández A, Guzmán-Cornejo C, Hernández LV, Domínguez L, et al. Morphological descriptions of the nymph and adults of Ornithodoros clarki, the larva and nymph of Ornithodoros rondoniensis, with notes on their phylogenetic relationships. Systematic Parasitology. 2021;98(3):231-246.
  6. Armúa-Fernández MT, Burutarán M, Bazzano V, Félix ML, Castro F, Venzal JM. Molecular characterization of plerocerdoids and adults of genus Spirometra (Eucestoda: Diphyllobothriidae) from Uruguay. Taxonomy. 2021;1(3):270-277.
  7. Muñoz-Leal S, Venzal JM, Jorge FR, Teixeira BM, Labruna MB. A new species of soft tick from dry tropical forests of Brazilian Caatinga. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 2021;12(5):101748.
  8. Carvalho L, Félix ML, Bazzano V, da Costa A, Armúa-Fernández MT, Muñoz-Leal S, et al. An Hepatozoon americanum-like protozoan in crab-eating (Cerdocyon thous) and grey pampean (Lycalopex gymnocercus) foxes from Uruguay. Parasitology Research. 2021:1-7.
  9. Bazzano V, Freire J, Armúa-Fernández MT, Félix ML, Carvalho LA, Venzal JM. Detección molecular de Hepatozoon felis en gatos con anemia en Uruguay. Veterinaria (Montevideo). 2021;57(215).
  10. De Lorenzo C, Boabaid FM, de Oliveira LGS, Bianchi MV, Félix ML, Armúa-Fernández MT, et al. Rangelia vitalii in free-living crab-eating foxes (Cerdocyon thous) in Uruguay. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 2021;101765.
  11. Félix ML, Muñoz-Leal S, Carvalho LA, Queirolo D, Alonso SR, Nava S, et al. Molecular characterization of novel Ehrlichia genotypes in Ixodes auritulus from Uruguay. Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases. 2021;1:100022.
  12. Bottero MNS, Beati L, Venzal JM, Guardia L, Thompson CS, Mangold AJ, et al. Ixodes silvanus n. sp. (Acari: Ixodidae), a new member of the subgenus Trichotoixodes Reznik, 1961 from northwestern Argentina. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 2021;12(1):101572.
  13. Parodi P, Corbellini LG, Leotti VB, Rivero R, Miraballes C, Riet-Correa F, et al. Validation of a multiplex PCR assay to detect Babesia spp. and Anaplasma marginale in cattle in Uruguay in the absence of a gold standard test. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation. 2021;33(1):73-79.
  14. Félix ML, Armúa-Fernández MT, Parodi P, Bazzano V, Mangold AJ, Venzal JM. Detection of a putative novel genotype of Anaplasma in gray-brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira) from Uruguay. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 2020;81(4):575-583.
  15. Gomez-Puerta LA, Muñoz-Leal S, Labruna MB, Venzal JM. Confirmation of Argas neghmei (Ixodida: Argasidae) in Peru and report of the Andean flicker (Colaptes rupicola) as a new host.
  16. Flores FS, Saracho-Bottero MN, Sebastian PS, Venzal JM, Mangold AJ, Nava S. Borrelia genospecies in Ixodes sp. cf. Ixodes affinis (Acari: Ixodidae) from Argentina. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 2020;11(6):101546.
  17. Cicuttin GL, De Salvo MN, Pérez PD, Silva D, Félix ML, Venzal JM, et al. A novel Ehrlichia strain (Rickettsiales: Anaplasmataceae) detected in Amblyomma triste (Acari: Ixodidae), a tick species of public health importance in the Southern Cone of America. Pathogens and Global Health. 2020;114(6):318-322.
  18. Sánchez RO, Bazzano V, Félix ML, Armúa-Fernández MT, Venzal JM. Ehrlichiosis monocítica canina en la provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina: confirmación molecular de casos en la ciudad de Concordia. FAVE Sección Ciencias Veterinarias. 2020;19(1):16-22.
  19. Bazzano V, Félix ML, Parodi P, Carvalho LA, Nava S, Armúa-Fernández MT, et al. Phylogenetic analysis of Hepatozoon spp. (Apicomplexa: Hepatozoidae) infecting Philodryas patagoniensis (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) in Uruguay. Parasitology Research. 2020:1-8.
  20. Colombo VC, Montani ME, Pavé R, Antoniazzi LR, Gamboa MD, Fasano AA, et al. First detection of "Candidatus Rickettsia wissemanii" in Ornithodoros hasei (Schulze, 1935) (Acari: Argasidae) from Argentina. Ticks and tick-borne diseases. 2020;11(4):101442.
  21. Carvalho LA, Maya L, Armua-Fernandez MT, Félix ML, Bazzano V, Barbieri AM, et al. Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infecting Ixodes auritulus ticks in Uruguay. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 2020;80(1):109-125.
  22. Sebastian PS, Flores FS, Saracho-Bottero MN, Tarragona EL, Venzal JM, Nava S. Molecular detection of rickettsial bacteria in ticks of the genus Ixodes from the Southern Cone of America. Acta tropica. 2020;210:105588.
  23. Guzmán-Cornejo C, Rebollo-Hernández A, Troyo A, Moreira-Soto RD, Hernández LV, Muñoz-Leal S, et al. New records and phylogenetic position of Ornithodoros knoxjonesi (Ixodida: Argasidae). Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 2020;11(5):101473.
  24. Muñoz-Leal S, González-Acuña D, Labruna MB, Venzal JM. Redescription of the larva, and description of the nymphal and adult stages of Ornithodoros peruvianus Kohls, Clifford & Jones, 1969 (Acari: Argasidae). Systematic parasitology. 2020;97(2):201-215.
  25. Muñoz-Leal S, Venzal JM, Nava S, Marcili A, González-Acuña D, Martins TF, et al. Description of a new soft tick species (Acari: Argasidae: Ornithodoros) parasite of Octodon degus (Rodentia: Octodontidae) in northern Chile. Ticks and tick-borne diseases. 2020;11(3):101385.
  26. Saracho-Bottero MN, Venzal JM, Tarragona EL, Thompson CS, Mangold AJ, Beati L, et al. The Ixodes ricinus complex (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Southern Cone of America: Ixodes pararicinus, Ixodes aragaoi, and Ixodes sp. cf. I. affinis. Parasitology research. 2020;119(1):43-54.
  27. Estrada-Peña A, Szabó M, Labruna M, Mosqueda J, Merino O, Tarragona E, et al. Towards an effective, rational and sustainable approach for the control of cattle ticks in the Neotropics. 2020.
  28. Armúa-Fernández MT, Venzal JM. Leishmaniosis: breve puesta al día. Veterinaria (Montevideo). 2019;55(211):29-36.
  29. Estrada-Peña A, Nava S, Tarragona E, Bermúdez S, de la Fuente J, Domingos A, et al. Species occurrence of ticks in South America, and interactions with biotic and abiotic traits. Scientific data. 2019;6(1):1-5.
  30. Muñoz-Leal S, Nava S, González-Acuña D, Gomez-Puerta LA, Labruna MB, Venzal JM. On the presence of Ornithodoros microlophi (Argasidae) in Peru. Systematic and Applied Acarology. 2019;24(11):2278-2284.
  31. Labruna MB, Onofrio VC, Barros-Battesti DM, Gianizella SL, Venzal JM, Guglielmone AA. Synonymy of Ixodes aragaoi with Ixodes fuscipes, and reinstatement of Ixodes spinosus (Acari: Ixodidae). Ticks and tick-borne diseases. 2020;11(2):101349.
  32. Remesar S, Diaz P, Venzal JM, Prieto A, Estrada-Peña A, López CM, et al. Longitudinal study of infection with Borrelia spp. in questing ticks from north-western Spain. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 2019;19(11):785-792.
  33. Cicuttin GL, De Salvo MN, Venzal JM, Nava S. Borrelia spp. in ticks and birds from a protected urban area in Buenos Aires city, Argentina. Ticks and tick-borne diseases. 2019;10(6):101282.
  34. Félix ML, Venzal JM. Primer reporte de Haemaphysalis juxtakochi Cooley, 1946 (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitando equinos en Uruguay. Revista FAVE–Sección Ciencias Veterinarias. 2019;18:9-11.
  35. Venzal JM, Castillo GN, Gonzalez-Rivas CJ, Mangold AJ, Nava S. Description of Ornithodoros montensis n. sp. (Acari, Ixodida: Argasidae), a parasite of the toad Rhinella arenarum (Amphibia, Anura: Bufonidae) in the Monte Desert of Argentina. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 2019;78(1):133-147.
  36. Díaz P, Remesar S, Venzal JM, Vázquez-López ME, Fernández G, López C, et al. Occurrence of Borrelia and Borreliella species in Ixodes ricinus collected from roe deer in northwestern Spain. Medical and veterinary entomology. 2019;33(3):427-430.
  37. Remesar S, Fernández PD, Venzal JM, Pérez-Creo A, Prieto A, Estrada-Peña A, et al. Tick species diversity and population dynamics of Ixodes ricinus in Galicia (north-western Spain). Ticks and tick-borne diseases. 2019;10(1):132-137.
  38. Lado P, Nava S, Mendoza-Uribe L, Caceres AG, Delgado-De La Mora J, Licona-Enriquez JD, et al. The Amblyomma maculatum Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) group of ticks: phenotypic plasticity or incipient speciation? Parasites & vectors. 2018;11(1):1-22.
  39. Venzal JM, Nava S, Hernández LV, Miranda J, Marcili A, Labruna MB. A morphological and phylogenetic analysis of Ornithodoros marinkellei (Acari: Argasidae), with additional notes on habitat and host usage. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 2018;76(2):249-261.
  40. Thompson CS, Mangold AJ, Félix ML, Carvalho L, Armúa-Fernández MT, Venzal JM. Molecular evidence of Babesia species in Procyon cancrivorus (Carnivora, Procyonidae) in Uruguay. Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Reports. 2018;13:230-233.
  41. Nava S, Beati L, Venzal JM, Labruna MB, Szabó MP, Petney TT, et al. Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille, 1806): neotype designation, morphological re-description of all parasitic stages and molecular characterization. Ticks and tick-borne diseases. 2018;9(6):1573-1585.
  42. Parodi P, Freire J, Armúa-Fernández MT, Félix ML, Guerisoli D, Bazzano V, et al. Diagnóstico parasitológico y molecular de tripanosomiasis canina por Trypanosoma evansi en perros asociados a la caza en dos localidades del Departamento de Artigas, Uruguay. Veterinaria (Montevideo). 2018;54(210):15-21.
  43. Faccini-Martínez ÁA, Félix ML, Armua-Fernandez MT, Venzal JM. An autochthonous confirmed case of Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis in Uruguay. Ticks and tick-borne diseases. 2018;9(3):718-719.
  44. Venzal JM, Nava S, Hernández LV, Miranda J, Marcili A, Labruna MB. A morphological and phylogenetic analysis of Ornithodoros marinkellei (Acari: Argasidae), with additional notes on habitat and host usage. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 2018;76:249-261.
  45. Lamattina D, Costa SA, Arrabal JP, Venzal JM, Guglielmone AA, Nava S. Factors associated with hard tick (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitism in medium-sized mammals in the Atlantic Rainforest region of Argentina. Ticks and tick-borne diseases. 2018;9(6):1451-1458.
  46. Castro O, Félix ML, Venzal JM. Procaudotestis cordiformis sp. nov. (Digenea: Apocreadiidae), parasite of Rhinelepis strigosa (Osteichthyes: Loricariidae) from Uruguay River basin, Uruguay. Boletín de la Sociedad Zoológica del Uruguay (2ª época). 2018;27(2):41-45.
  47. Vogt CM, Armúa-Fernández MT, Tobler K, Hilbe M, Aguilar C, Ackermann M, et al. Oral application of recombinant Bacillus subtilis spores to dogs results in a humoral response against specific Echinococcus granulosus paramyosin and tropomyosin antigens. Infection and immunity. 2018;86(3):e00495-17.
  48. Lamattina D, Venzal JM, Tarragona EL, Mangold AJ, Nava S. Amblyomma yucumense Krawczak, Martins & Labruna, 2015 (Acari: Ixodidae) in Argentina. Systematic and Applied Acarology. 2018;23(5):799-802.
  49. Lima PH, Vidigal PM, Barcelos RM, Klein RC, Montandon CE, Fabres-Klein MH, et al. The Nothoaspis amazoniensis complete mitogenome: a comparative and phylogenetic analysis. Veterinary sciences. 2018;5(2):37.
  50. Estrada-Pena A, Venzal JM, Nava S. Redescription, molecular features, and neotype deposition of Rhipicephalus pusillus Gil Collado and Ixodes ventalloi Gil Collado (Acari, Ixodidae). Zootaxa. 2018;4442(2):262-276.
  51. Lareschi M, Venzal JM, Nava S, Mangold AJ, Portillo A, Palomar-Urbina AM, et al. La pulga humana Pulex irritans (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) en el noroeste argentino, una investigación de Bartonella y Rickettsia spp. Revista mexicana de biodiversidad. 2018;89(2):375-381.
  52. Lamattina D, Venzal JM, Costa SA, Arrabal JP, Flores S, Berrozpe PE, et al. Ecological characterization of a tick community across a landscape gradient exhibiting differential anthropogenic disturbance in the Atlantic Forest ecoregion in Argentina. Medical and veterinary entomology. 2018;32(3):271-281.
  53. Saracho-Bottero MN, Tarragona EL, Sebastian PS, Venzal JM, Mangold AJ, Guglielmone AA, et al. Ticks infesting cattle and humans in the Yungas Biogeographic Province of Argentina, with notes on the presence of tick-borne bacteria. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 2018;74(1):107-116.
  54. Díaz P, Arnal JL, Remesar S, Pérez-Creo A, Venzal JM, Vázquez-López ME, et al. Molecular identification of Borrelia spirochetes in questing Ixodes ricinus from northwestern Spain. Parasites & vectors. 2017;10(1):1-7.
  55. Michel T, Souza U, Dall'Agnol B, Webster A, Peters F, Christoff A, et al. Ixodes spp. (Acari: Ixodidae) ticks in Rio Grande do sul state, Brazil. Systematic and Applied Acarology. 2017;22(12):2057-2067.
  56. Thapa NK, Armua-Fernandez MT, Kinzang D, Gurung RB, Wangdi P, Deplazes P. Detection of Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus ortleppi in Bhutan. Parasitology international. 2017;66(2):139-141.
  57. Muñoz-Leal S, Venzal JM, Nava S, Reyes M, Martins TF, Leite RC, et al. The geographic distribution of Argas (Persicargas) miniatus and Argas (Persicargas) persicus (Acari: Argasidae) in America, with morphological and molecular diagnoses from Brazil, Chile and Cuba. Ticks and tick-borne diseases. 2018;9(1):44-56.
  58. Dall'Agnol B, Michel T, Weck B, Souza UA, Webster A, Leal BF, et al. Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Ixodes longiscutatus ticks from Brazilian Pampa. Ticks and tick-borne diseases. 2017;8(6):928-932.
  59. Guzmán-Cornejo C, García-Prieto L, Rebollo-Hernández A, Venzal JM, Nava S, Sánchez-Montes S. Molecular evidence and additional morphological characters to distinguish Ornithodoros brodyi and Ornithodoros yumatensis (Ixodida: Argasidae) in their different developmental stages. Acta parasitologica. 2017;62(2):432-448.
  60. Alishani M, Sherifi K, Rexhepi A, Hamidi A, Armua-Fernandez MT, Grimm F, et al. The impact of socio-cultural factors on transmission of Taenia spp. and Echinococcus granulosus in Kosovo. Parasitology. 2017;144(13):1736-1742.
  61. Rivero R, Minoli P, Parodi P, Matto C, Armúa-Fernández MT, Gianneechini E, et al. Description of an outbreak of canine rangeliosis in the northwest littoral of Uruguay. Veterinaria (Montevideo). 2017;53(208):21-37.
  62. Otero-Abad B, Armua-Fernandez MT, Deplazes P, Torgerson PR, Hartnack S. Latent class models for Echinococcus multilocularis diagnosis in foxes in Switzerland in the absence of a gold standard. Parasites & vectors. 2017;10(1):612.
  63. Buroni F, Armua-Fernandez MT, Nan F, Matto C, Venzal JM, Rivero R. Coenurosis bovina en Uruguay. Veterinaria (Montevideo). 2017;53(206):23-32.
  64. Carvalho L, Armua-Fernandez MT, Sosa N, Félix ML, Venzal JM. Anaplasma platys in dogs from Uruguay. Ticks and tick-born diseases. 2017;8(2):241-245.