Lourdes Barón Argos

ORCID: 0000-0002-0943-1494
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Research Areas
  • Digital Imaging for Blood Diseases
  • Malaria Research and Control
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment
  • Bird parasitology and diseases

Instituto de Salud Carlos III
2021-2024

Centro Nacional de Microbiologia
2021

Filariasis, a neglected tropical disease caused by roundworms, is significant public health concern in many countries. Microscopic examination of blood samples can detect and differentiate parasite species, but it time consuming requires expert microscopists, resource that not always available. In this context, artificial intelligence (AI) assist the diagnosis automatically detecting differentiating microfilariae. line with target product profile for lymphatic filariasis as defined World...

10.1371/journal.pntd.0012117 article EN cc-by PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2024-04-17

Malaria is a parasitic disease distributed in tropical areas but with high number of imported cases non-endemic countries. The most specific and sensitive malaria diagnostic methods are PCR LAMP. However, both require equipment, extraction procedures cold chain. This study aims to solve some limitations LAMP method the optimization validation six assays, genus species-specific, using an easy fast method, incorporation reaction control assay, two ways (Dual) result reading reagent...

10.1080/20477724.2023.2232595 article EN Pathogens and Global Health 2023-07-06

Abstract Filariasis, a neglected tropical disease caused by roundworms, is significant public health concern in many countries. Microscopic examination of blood samples can detect and differentiate parasite species, but it time consuming requires expert microscopists, resource that not always available. In this context, artificial intelligence (AI) assist the diagnosis automatically detecting differentiating microfilarias. line with target product profile for lymphatic filariasis as defined...

10.1101/2023.08.02.23293538 preprint EN cc-by-nd medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2023-08-07

La principal estrategia para el control de la malaria, según Organización Mundial Salud (OMS), es un diagnóstico rápido y adecuado seguido tratamiento efectivo. Los laboratorios referencia microbiología tienen entre sus funciones desarrollo validación nuevas metodologías diagnósticas ayudar al erradicación malaria en mundo nuestro caso evitar reintroducción país. En este trabajo se hace una revisión los métodos más extendidos malaria: i) clásicos, como son microscopía test rápido, ii)...

10.37536/riecs.2021.6.s1.245 article ES cc-by Revista de Investigación y Educación en Ciencias de la Salud (RIECS) 2021-02-26
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