Luis Fernando Chaves
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Recent Articles
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Killets K, Wormington J, Zecca I, Chaves L, Hamer G, Hamer S
Insects
. 2025 Feb;
16(2).
PMID: 40003818
Triatomines are vectors of (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), the agent of Chagas disease. Stercorarian transmission occurs when infectious parasites are passed in insect feces to vertebrates through the biting wound or mucosa....
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Simons A, Lenfestey A, Chaves L
Curr Res Parasitol Vector Borne Dis
. 2025 Feb;
7:100242.
PMID: 39968057
Understanding the factors driving changes in mosquito abundance are key to quantify the risk they pose as vectors of pathogens. Here, to study the impacts of weather changes and density-dependent...
3.
Scavo N, Juarez J, Chaves L, Fernandez-Santos N, Carbajal E, Perkin J, et al.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
. 2024 Oct;
18(10):e0011953.
PMID: 39432539
Background: Aedes aegypti presence, human-vector contact rates, and Aedes-borne virus transmission are highly variable through time and space. The Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV), Texas, is one of the few...
4.
Chaves L, Friberg M, Pascual M, Calzada J, Luckhart S, Bergmann L
Lancet Planet Health
. 2024 May;
8(5):e334-e341.
PMID: 38729673
The impacts of climate change on vector-borne diseases are uneven across human populations. This pattern reflects the effect of changing environments on the biology of transmission, which is also modulated...
5.
Tunon A, Garcia J, Carrera L, Chaves L, Lenhart A, Loaiza J
Acta Trop
. 2024 Apr;
255:107217.
PMID: 38677361
Vector-borne diseases are a major source of morbidity in Panama. Herein, we describe historical usage patterns of synthetic insecticides to control arthropod disease vectors in this country. We examine the...
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Cumbrera A, Calzada J, Chaves L, Hurtado L
Trop Med Infect Dis
. 2024 Apr;
9(4).
PMID: 38668551
Despite ongoing efforts for elimination, malaria continues to be a major public health problem in the Republic of Panama. For effective elimination, it is key that malaria foci and areas...
7.
Chaves L, Meyers A, Hodo C, Sanders J, Curtis-Robles R, Hamer G, et al.
Epidemics
. 2023 Nov;
45:100723.
PMID: 37935075
Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, etiological agent of Chagas disease, is common in US government working dogs along the US-Mexico border. This 3145 km long border comprises four states: Texas (TX),...
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McMillan J, Chaves L, Armstrong P
J Med Entomol
. 2023 Mar;
60(3):564-574.
PMID: 36964697
Quantifying synchrony in species population fluctuations and determining its driving factors can inform multiple aspects of ecological and epidemiological research and policy decisions. We examined seasonal mosquito and arbovirus surveillance...
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Chaves L, Friberg M
Curr Res Insect Sci
. 2022 Aug;
1:100001.
PMID: 36003600
(Skuse) is a major global invasive mosquito species that, in Japan, co-occurs with Yamada, a closely related species recently intercepted in Europe. Here, we present results of a detailed 25-month...
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Okamoto K, Ong V, Wallace R, Wallace R, Chaves L
Nonlinear Dyn
. 2022 Jun;
111(1):927-949.
PMID: 35757097
Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11071-022-07548-7.