Citrus Diseases Exotic to Florida: Sweet Orange Scab (SOS) by Kuang-Ren Chung, Lavern W. Timmer

“…SOS is common in humid citrus growing areas of South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Uruguay), but its presence has not been confirmed elsewhere. …”
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La crítica feminista antiextractivista del Qhapaq Ñan y la propuesta despatrimonializadora by Carina Jofré

“…I argue that the Qhapaq Ñan Andean Road System is part of the spatio-temporal adjustments made by accumulation due to dispossession in South America, and I also denounce the sexual violence configured in this patriarchal power matrix of neo-extractivist heritage processes, especially in the Province of San Juan and from La Rioja. …”
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The Idea of the Second Lithuania in Kazys Pakštas's Works of Independence Period by Vygintas Bronius Pšibilskis

“…Based on evidence from various countries, Pakštas developed the idea of planned emigration and focused colonization in countries like North and South America, Africa, and Australia. However, despite extensive research, he couldn't pinpoint the ideal location for such a settlement. …”
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Términos de parentesco diádicos en cholón (noreste de los Andes peruanos) by Matthias Urban

“…This type of morpheme is common in Australia, but it is not frequently reported from the Americas, and there is little clear evidence so far for it in South America. This renders its attestation in Cholón not only of anthropological interest, as such terms normally reflect the social and reproductive life of the speakers of the respective languages, but also for areal linguistic typology. …”
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First confirmed record of Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840), Swainson’s Thrush (Passeriformes, Turdidae), in Paraguay by Pablo M. Avidad, Rubén Meza, Doris Dávalos, Hugo del Castillo, Robert Clay

“…Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840) (Swainson’s Thrush), a long-distance migratory songbird, spends its nonbreeding period primarily in northwestern South America and has been listed hypothetically in Paraguay. …”
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Dyschromatosis Symmetrica Hereditaria of Late Onset? by Caroline Balvedi Gaiewski, Sergio Zuneda Serafini, Betina Werner, Janyana M. D. Deonizio

“…This entity is not very common in South America, and the vast majority of cases were described in Japanese population. …”
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Field Identification of Citrus Blight by Stephen H. Futch, Kenneth S. Derrick, Ronald H. Brlansky

“…The disease is found in many citrus-producing regions including North America, the Caribbean, South America, South Africa and Australia. Blight is found in mostly tropical or semitropical regions with moderate to heavy rainfall but is not reported in more arid regions such as the Mediterranean Basin and California. …”
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Jesuit Fathers Beyond the Iron Curtain: Directions and Challenges of Lithuanian Jesuit Exiles in the 20th Century by Ignas Stanevičius

“…Jesuits continued their missionary work beyond the borders of the vice-province, undertaking missions in Canada, South America, and Uruguay. The expansive geographical scope of their activities raised concerns regarding the spiritual calling of the Jesuits themselves. …”
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Feasting on fish. Specialized function of pre-colonial pottery of the Cerritos mound builders of southern Brazil. by Marjolein Admiraal, André C Colonese, Rafael Guedes Milheira, Alice Di Muro, Helen Marie Talbot, Alexandre Lucquin, Oliver E Craig

“…Some of the oldest coastal pottery in South America is found in the Pampas region of southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. …”
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El exilio europeo del nacionalismo gallego a partir de 1939. Francia y la figura de Xohán Xosé Plá by Uxío-Breogán Diéguez Cequiel

“…Even though the presence of Galician sovereignists was weak compared to the whole of Galician exile, whose main nucleus was in South America, it is true that it has a great qualitative interest if we consider its activity. …”
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Citrus Diseases Exotic to Florida: Sweet Orange Scab (SOS) by Kuang-Ren Chung, Lavern W. Timmer

“…SOS is common in humid citrus growing areas of South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Uruguay), but its presence has not been confirmed elsewhere. …”
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The Lychee Erinose Mite Aceria litchii (Keifer) (Acari: Eriophyidae) by Alexandra M. Revynthi, Jonathan H. Crane, Jeff Wasielewski, Paul E. Kendra, Daniel Carrillo

“… The lychee erinose mite is an important pest of lychee and is found in lychee-producing countries in Asia and South America and in Australia, Hawaii, and Brazil, where it has has caused an estimated 70–80% yield reduction and a 20% increase in production costs. …”
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Keiferia azapaensis sp. nov., the first representative of the New World micromoth genus Keiferia Busck (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) associated with a member of Asteraceae by Héctor Vargas

“…The New World micromoth genus Keiferia Busck, 1939 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae, Gelechiinae, Gnorimoschemini) includes 21 described species, ten of which occur in South America. Like the tomato pinworm, K. lycopersicella (Walsingham, 1897), all the species of Keiferia, whose host plants have been documented, are associated exclusively with members of the family Solanaceae.Keiferia azapaensis sp. nov. is described and illustrated, based on adults reared from leaf miner larvae collected on the shrub Trixis cacalioides (Kunth) D. …”
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Preventing Foodborne Illness: Typhoid Fever—Salmonella Typhi by Keith R. Schneider, Renée Goodrich Schneider, Rachael Silverberg

“…Typhoid fever is easily controlled and relatively uncommon in the United States, but an estimated 21.5 million people per year are affected by typhoid fever in developing nations including regions in Asia, Africa, and South America. Many of the cases of typhoid fever in the United States are acquired through international travel to these regions. …”
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The Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) by Joseph M. Schaefer, Mark E. Hostetler

“… Armadillos are prehistoric-looking animals that belong to a family of mammals found primarily in Central and South America. The earliest fossil ancestor of our North American armadillo occurred about 60 million years ago; it was as large as a rhinoceros. …”
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Jejunal Ulcer Caused by Schistosoma japonicum by Daniela Jaqueline Rivadeneira, Hesheng Luo

“…Intestinal schistosomiasis can be caused by the trematodes Schistosoma japonicum that mainly exists in East Asia or the S. mansoni in Africa and South America. The adult worms of S. japonicum live in the mesenteric veins and excrete eggs that circulate to the liver and colon; the eggs migrate through the intestinal wall and pass out with the stool. …”
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Yellowmargined Leaf Beetle: A Pest of Cole Crops by Elena M. Rhodes, Oscar E. Liburd

“… The yellowmargined leaf beetle is a pest of cole or cruciferous crops that is native to South America. Since first reported in Mobile, Alabama, in 1947, the beetle has spread throughout the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida and up into Georgia and North Carolina. …”
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A Brief View of the Surface Membrane Proteins from Trypanosoma cruzi by Ángel de la Cruz Pech-Canul, Victor Monteón, Rosa-Lidia Solís-Oviedo

“…Trypanosoma cruzi is the causal agent of Chagas’ disease which affects millions of people around the world mostly in Central and South America. T. cruzi expresses a wide variety of proteins on its surface membrane which has an important role in the biology of these parasites. …”
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Additions to the Known Distribution of Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson, 1869) and E. excelsus (Bradley, 1944) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) by Eduardo Fernando dos Santos, Fernando Barbosa Noll

“…Two new records of E. aztecus were obtained for the semideciduous Atlantic Forest, in central Brazil, and one record for the Amazonian Forest in northern Brazil, indicating that its distribution extends between Central and South America. The new records of E. excelsus were obtained mainly from the Atlantic Forest highlands, indicating that this species is commonly found in the southeastern South American Central Plateau and restricted to forest ecosystem of this region.…”
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South Sea Daggers and the Dead Man’s Eye: Foreign Invasion in Fin-de-Siècle Optogram Fiction by Andrea Goulet

“…This is the age of post-Pasteurian fears of microbial contagion, of pre-Freudian theories of atavistic threats to civilized order, of Lombrosan anthropometry and its identification of the criminal classes in Europe with the ‘primitive’ peoples of Africa, South America, Asia, and the South Seas. These discourses—of biological vulnerability, of psychic pathology, and of social-geographical deviance—allow us to re-read the optical theme of the retinal membrane as symbol for the anxiety-provoking porosity of national and civic boundaries in an age of colonial exchange.…”
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