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Ana Ramírez
Country of origin: Guatemala Currently in: United States, Sacramento General field of specialization: Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences-
Degrees
2019 Doctorate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences2012 Master Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences2010 Undergraduate Biological Systems and Organisms -
Current Research Activities
Ana Ramirez received her Ph.D. from James Cook University in Australia where she studied mosquito excreta to enhance mosquito-borne disease surveillance. Ana is interested in identifying factors that can lead to the emergence and re-emergence of mosquito-borne arboviruses and developing methods to enhance their surveillance.
Publications resulting from Research:
Ramírez AL, van den Hurk AF, Mackay IM, Yang ASP, Hewitson GR, McMahon JL, Boddey JA, Ritchie SA, Erickson SM. 2019. Malaria surveillance from both ends: concurrent detection of Plasmodium falciparum in saliva and excreta harvested from Anopheles mosquitoes. Parasit Vectors 12(1):355
Ramírez AL, Hall-Mendelin S, Ritchie SA, van den Hurk AF. 2019. Stability of West Nile virus RNA in mosquito excreta. J Med Entomol 56(4): 1135-38
Meyer DB, Ramírez AL, van den Hurk AF, Kurucz N, Ritchie SA. 2019. Development and field evaluation of a system to collect mosquito excreta for the detection of arboviruses. J Med Entomol 56(4): 1116-21
Ramírez AL, Hall-Mendelin S, Doggett SL, Hewitson GR, McMahon JL, Ritchie SA, van den Hurk AF. 2018. Mosquito excreta: A sample type with many potential applications for the investigation of Ross River virus and West Nile virus ecology. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 12(8): e0006771.
Timmins DR, Staunton KM, Meyer DB, Townsend M, Paton CJ, Ramírez AL, Ritchie SA. 2018. Modifying the Biogents sentinel trap to increase the longevity of captured Aedes aegypti. J Med Entomol 55(6):1638-41
Ramirez AL, van den Hurk AF, Meyer DB, Ritchie SA. 2018. Searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack: advances in mosquito-borne arbovirus surveillance. Parasit Vectors 11(1):320
Gonzalez-Reiche AS, Ramírez AL, Müller ML, Orellana D, Sosa SM, Ola P, Paniagua J, Ortíz L, Hernandez J, Cordón-Rosales C, Perez DR. 2017. Origin, distribution and potential risk factors associated with influenza A virus in swine in two production systems in Guatemala. Influenza Other Respir Viruses 11(2):182-9
