Full Member
Ms. Luz Marina Llangarí Arizo
Membership since:
2021
Field of activity:
Other Memberships/Affiliations
Ecuadorian Red Cross
Degrees:
2016
Master
Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
2012
Undergraduate
Biological Systems and Organisms
Publications resulting from Research
Llangarí-Arizo LM, Sadiq ST, Márquez C, Cooper P, Furegato M, Zhou L, et al. (2021) Sexually transmitted infections and factors associated with risky sexual practices among female sex workers: A cross sectional study in a large Andean city. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0250117. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250117
Cabezas, M. B. Llangarí, L.M & Rafael, V. (2015) Descripción de cuatro especies nuevas del subgrupo Drosophila fasciola, grupo repleta (Diptera, Drosophilidae) en dos bosques nublados del Ecuador. Iheringia, Sér. Zool. vol.105, n.4, pp.383-392. ISSN 0073-4721. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1678-476620151054383392
Llangarí, L. M. & Rafael, V. (2017) A new species of Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from the inflorescences of Xanthosoma sagittifolium (Araceae). Revista Ecuatoriana de Medicina y Ciencias Biológicas- PUCE. [S.l.], v. 38, n. 1, mayo 2017. ISSN 2477-9148.
Llangarí, L. M. & Rafael, V. (2018) Cuatro especies nuevas del género Drosophila (Diptera, Drosophilidae) en las provincias de Pichincha, Napo y Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador. Iheringia, Sér. Zool. vol.108. https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-4766e2018040
Llangarí, L. M. & Rafael, V. (2019) Cinco especies nuevas de Drosophila (Diptera, Drosophilidae) relacionadas con Araceae. Iheringia, Sér. Zool. vol.110, n. 4. https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-4766e2020012
Zhou L, Lopez Rodas A, Llangarí LM, Romero Sandoval N, Cooper P, Sadiq ST (2022) Single gene targeted nanopore sequencing enables simultaneous identification and antimicrobial resistance detection of sexually transmitted infections. PLoS ONE 17(1): e0262242. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262242
Llangarí-Arizo, L. M., Broad, C. E., Zhou, L., Martin Mateo, M., Moreno, C. I., Moreno Cevallos, M., Cooper, P. J., Romero-Sandoval, N., & Sadiq, S. T. (2024). Sexually transmitted infections among at-risk women in Ecuador: implications for global prevalence and testing practices for STIs detected only at the anorectum in female sex workers. Sexually transmitted infections, 100(8), 504–511. https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2023-056075
Gualan, M., Ster, I. C., Veloz, T., Granadillo, E., Llangari-Arizo, L. M., Rodriguez, A., Critchley, J. A., Whincup, P., Martin, M., Romero-Sandoval, N., & Cooper, P. J. (2024). Cardiometabolic diseases and associated risk factors in transitional rural communities in tropical coastal Ecuador. PloS one, 19(7), e0307403. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307403
Mejia, R., Slatko, B., Almazan, C., Cimino, R., Krolewiecki, A., Duran, N. M., Valera Aspetty, J. E., Vargas, P. A., Oliveira Amorim, C. C., Geiger, S. M., Fujiwara, R. T., Ramirez, J. D., Llangarí-Arizo, L. M., Guadalupe, I., Villanueva-Lizama, L. E., Cruz-Chan, J. V., Ojeda, M. L., Aranda, E. M., Benedetti, S. O., Camones Rivera, M. D., … Cooper, P. J. (2024). Molecular Testing of Environmental Samples as a Potential Source to Estimate Parasite Infection. Tropical medicine and infectious disease. 9(10), 226. https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed9100226
Broad, C. E., Llangari-Arizo, L. M., Laing, K. G., Romero-Sandoval, N. C., Cooper, P. J., & Sadiq, S. T. (2025). Trichomonas vaginalis strain diversity among female sex workers in Ecuador using DNA sequence-based typing. BMC infectious diseases, 26(1), 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-025-12185-7
Mejia, R., Aranda, E. M., Ojeda, L., Benedetti, S. O., Guzman, J. J., Slatko, B., Almazan, C., Diaz-Fernandez, M., Cimino, R., Juarez, M., Duran, N. M., Flores, E. L. M., Vargas, P. A., Kaur, A., Uzcategui, N. L., Mejia, L. E., Keegan, K. E., Mejia, E. R., Amorim, C. C. O., Geiger, S. M., … Cooper, P. J. (2026). Distribution of nematophagous fungi and soil-transmitted helminths in outdoor built environments across Latin America. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 20(2), e0013990. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013990