scholarly journals “Chiclero’s Ulcer” Due to Leishmania mexicana in Travelers Returning from Central America: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Pathogens ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1112
Author(s):  
Carole Eldin ◽  
Coralie l’Ollivier ◽  
Stephane Ranque ◽  
Philippe Gautret ◽  
Philippe Parola
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
New World ◽  
Noninvasive Sampling ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Leishmania Mexicana ◽  
World Species ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chronic Ulceration ◽  
Antiparasitic Treatment ◽  
Left Parotid Gland

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) due to a New World species of Leishmania is increasingly seen among returning international travelers, and most cases arise from travel to Mexico, Central and South America. We described a case of CL in a women presenting a nonhealing ulceration under her right ear with slight increase of size of the left parotid gland under the skin lesion, evolving for 4 months. In her history of travel, she reported a ten-day stay in Mexico during the Christmas vacation in the Yucatan region with only half a day walking in the tropical forest. Diagnosis of CL due to Leishmania mexicana was done via PCR detection and sequencing from swab sampling of the lesion. The patient recovered without antiparasitic treatment. Clinicians should consider diagnosing Chiclero’s ulcer in patients returning from endemic areas such as Central America and Texas who present with chronic ulceration. A noninvasive sampling is sufficient for the PCR-based diagnosis of this disease.

scholarly journals A review of the ant genus Adelomyrmex Emery 1897 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Central America

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3456 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN T. LONGINO
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Species ◽  
Central America ◽  
New World ◽  
Central American ◽  
Small Litter ◽  
World Species ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Synonymy ◽  
Central American Species

The taxonomy and natural history of the ant genus Adelomyrmex Emery is reviewed for the Central American region. Theyare small, litter-inhabiting ants most often collected in Berlese and Winkler samples. Although the genus and its relativeshave a pantropical distribution, Central American cloud forests are the only places where they are abundant and diverse.Several Adelomyrmex species are mountain-top endemics with very restricted ranges, and climate change clearly posesthe threat of mountain-top extinction. The 21 Mexican and Central American species are treated in some detail and a keyto the 26 mainland New World species is provided. Nine new species are described, eight from Mexico and Central Amer-ica (A. anxiocalor sp. nov., A. bispeculum sp. nov., A. dentivagans sp. nov., A. marginodus sp. nov., A. metzabok sp. nov.,A. nortenyo sp. nov., A. paratristani sp. nov., and A. quetzal sp. nov.) and one from the oceanic Isla del Coco in the easternPacific (A. coco sp. nov.). New synonymy is proposed for Adelomyrmex tristani (Menozzi, 1931) (= A. brevispinosus Fernández, 2003, syn. nov.).

Jose Cecilio del Valle's Dream of a Latin-American Federation

1963 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
Louis E. Bumgartner
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
New World ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Central Americans ◽  
American Federation ◽  
Constituent Assembly ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Single Moment ◽  
History Of

In 1824, José Cecilio del Valle presented to the Constituent Assembly of Central America a portrait of “Jorge Washington.” One of a number of such gestures, the presentation has no special significance. History would be no poorer if the record of the act had been lost forever. But if Valle could have chosen from his distinguished career a single moment to convey the image he wished to cast in the pages of history, he well might have selected the instant when the likeness of Washington passed from his hands to the waiting ones of the president of the Assembly. The scene would have been impressive on canvas. Stripped of flesh, his features showing signs of scholarship's discipline, Valle bends slightly from the waist, arms outstretched, offering the gift — his promise to dedicate himself to the success of the nation that Central Americans were trying to build.But Valle had his own notions as to how Central America could succeed. Steeped in the history of the New World as well as of the Old, he thought the success of the Federation of Central America depended a great deal on the success of all new American nations. This is not to say, however, that he doubted that Central Americans could build a nation from their own resources.

A REVIEW OF THE NEW WORLD SPECIES OF PISON: I. THE SUBGENUS KROMBEINIELLUM (HYMENOPTERA: SPHECIDAE)

1968 ◽  
Vol 100 (10) ◽  
pp. 1100-1107
Author(s):  
A. S. Menke
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central America ◽  
New World ◽  
World Species ◽  
Species Groups

AbstractFive new species of Pison, subgenus Krombeiniellum, are described: stangei from Argentina; duckei, plaumanni, and neotropicum from Brazil; and krombeini from Central America. Pison duckei, plaumanni, and neotropicum are known by females only. A key is provided for the identification of the New World Krombeiniellum; the subgenus is divided into three species groups.

Campanian rudists (Hippuritida, Bivalvia) from Costa Rica (Central America)

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Maria Pons ◽  
Enric Vicens ◽  
Reinhard Schmidt-Effing
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
National Park ◽  
New World ◽  
New Genus ◽  
World Species ◽  
Old World ◽  
Santa Rosa National Park

AbstractThe Campanian rudist fauna identified from the localities Playa Panamá, Santa Rosa National Park, Colorado de Abangares, and Bolsón in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, is composed of the antillocaprinidsAntillocaprinasp. aff.A. suboccidentalisChubb, 1967,Antillocaprinasp. and Antillocaprinidae indet.; the multiple-fold hippuritidsBarrettia moniliferaWoodward, 1862,Parastroma trechmanniChubb, 1967, and cf.Whitfieldiella gigas(Chubb, 1955); the plagioptychidsPlagioptychus trechmanniChubb, 1956,Plagioptychussp. cf.P. zansiChubb, 1956,Mitrocaprina costaricaensisnew species,Mitrocaprina multicanaliculataChubb, 1956, and Plagioptychidae indet.; and the radiolitidsRadiolitessp. aff.R. multicostata(Adkins, 1930),Alencasteritesnew genusmooretownensis(Trechmann, 1924),Bournonia?tetrahedron(Chubb, 1967),Chiapasellasp.,Guanacastea costaricaensisnew genus new species, cf.Potositessp. aff.P. tristantorresiAlencáster and Pons in Pons et al., 2010, and aff.Thyrastylonsp. Although some differences in rudist diversity and sedimentary setting were observed among localities, most species indicate the same age for all occurrences, which correspond to the Campanian, probably mid-Campanian. Radiolitid specimens appear better preserved than those of other taxa and are thus discussed more in detail. Both the number of radiolitid genera exclusively known from the New World, and reasonable doubts about the correct attribution of some New World species to Old World genera, indicate important differences between rudist faunas at both sides of the Atlantic (Mediterranean and American Tethys, respectively) during the Late Cretaceous.

scholarly journals New records of the drywood termite, Incisitermes platycephalus (Light, 1933) (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae), from Central America and senior synonym of I. nigritus (Snyder, 1946)

Check List ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 501-505
Author(s):  
Rudolf H. Scheffrahn
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
New World ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
New Records ◽  
Head Capsule ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
World Species ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Senior Synonym

New World species of the genus Incisitermes Krishna, 1961 range from California to Peru.  The soldier of this genus is notable for the incised anterior margin of the pronotum and the elongated third antennal article.  I report the broad occurrence of Incisitermes platycephalus (Light, 1933) from extreme southern Mexico to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. Incisitermes nigritus (Snyder, 1946) from Guatemala is a junior synonym of I. platycephalus.  Among Incisitermes, I.  platycephalus is characterized by its small size, dark imago, and dorsoventrally compressed soldier head capsule.

Bishop Marroquin–Zumárraga’s Gift to Central America

1949 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-341
Author(s):  
Lázaro Lamadrid
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
New World ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Central American ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
Solid Bases ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Moderate Position

In the History of the Central American hierarchy there is no personality so highly praised and so little disputed as that of Don Francisco Marroquín, the first Bishop of Guatemala. His good sense, activity and zeal for the conversion of the natives, and his interest in the culture, moral welfare and progress of the incipient province rest upon solid bases in the reports and eulogies of documents and historians, although, strangely enough, he has never been the subject of a full-length biography.No less praiseworthy was his moderate position as to the very serious problem which confronted Spain, and which she herself posed for consideration and decision, from the very beginnings of the colonization and pacification of the New World—namely, the problem of what treatment should be accorded to the natives.

New Azana species from Western North America (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2397 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER H. KERR
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
New World ◽  
Western North America ◽  
World Species ◽  
Biogeographic History ◽  
Fungus Gnats ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dispersal Events

Two new species of fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), Azana malinamoena and Azana frizzelli, spp. nov., are described and figured from California. These species represent the first records of Azana for western North America. A diagnosis of the genus Azana Walker is presented and a provisional key for the New World species of the genus is given. The discovery of A. malinamoena and A. frizzelli in California and their apparently close relationship to A. nigricoxa Strobl from south-western Europe (rather than to the only other Azana species known from North America, A. sinusa Coher) implies a more complicated biogeographic history of this genus in North America, one that probably includes multiple, independent dispersal events.

scholarly journals Giant pleomorphic adenoma of the parotid gland: a case report

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-104
Author(s):  
Ernesto Carmona Fernàndez ◽  
Jorje Luis Pineda Izquierdo ◽  
Osiris Suàrez
Keyword(s):  
Parotid Gland ◽  
Unusual Case ◽  
Malignant Degeneration ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Pathologic Examination ◽  
Mixed Tumour ◽  
Pleomorphic Adenomas ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mixed Tumours ◽  
Left Parotid Gland

Pleomorphic adenomas account for the majority of parotid masses, typically arising in the tail of the gland and enlarging slowly. Most are 2 to 6 cm in size when resected. We report the resection of a benign mixed tumour of the left parotid gland with a history of bleeding. The resected tumour measured 21 cm in diameter, weighed 1.81 kg, and on pathologic examination was a benign mixed tumour without malignant degeneration. The implications of this unusual case for the management of mixed tumours are discussed with a review of the literature.

scholarly journals A new vine snake (Reptilia, Colubridae, Oxybelis) from Peru and redescription of O. acuminatus

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Robert C. Jadin ◽  
Michael J. Jowers ◽  
Sarah A. Orlofske ◽  
William E. Duellman ◽  
Christopher Blair ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
New World ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Peruvian Amazon ◽  
History Of ◽  
A New Species

The Brown Vine Snake, Oxybelis aeneus, was until recently considered a single species, distributed from southern Arizona through the Neotropics into southeastern Brazil. However, newly conducted research restructured the species with a substantial taxonomic revision, recognizing five additional taxa (i.e. O. koehleri, O. microphthalmus, O. potosiensis, O. rutherfordi, O. vittatus) in this species complex. This revision focused on populations in North America, Central America, and northern South America while neglecting the southern portion of its distribution. Here, we examine the taxonomic history of the complex and use it along with specimen data to resurrect O. acuminatus from southeastern Brazil. Finally, we describe a new species from the Peruvian Amazon based on morphological characters. This work increases the species diversity of the O. aeneus complex to eight, and we expect further increases in biodiversity discoveries with continued exploration of the New World vine snakes.

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