‘Incidence and transmission of parasitic diseases among the wild fauna of Chile and Peru: implications for the conservation of endangered species’

Alejandro Pablo Sabat Kirkwood, Elie Albert Poulin Charmoleu, Francisco Javier Martínez González, Inocencia Sánchez Monsálvez, Jessica María Amanzo Alcántara, Josué Martínez de la Puente, Juan Moreno Klemming, Katya Balta Abadie, Rodrigo Alfonso Vásquez Salfate, Santiago Merino Rodríguez.

Using new molecular methodologies in the ecology of parasitism, this project will identify the diverse gene lines of the community of blood parasites present in bird and micro-mammal communities of Peru and Chile, including endangered species, in order to understand their spread and evolution. This will tell us in which host species these parasite lines are established and which they are trying to enter, allowing us to plot the corresponding risk map.