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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

metaxénica

English translation:

vector-borne

Added to glossary by Alvaro Aliaga
Jun 18, 2009 01:23
14 yrs ago
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Spanish term

metaxénica

Spanish to English Medical Medical: Health Care disease control - malaria
I would appreciate any help I can get. This is from a document regarding malaria control in Peru. All the references that I can find by Googling are also from Peru. It doesn't appear to be a typo. At first, I found it translated as vector-borne, but this doesn't make sense in the title below:

"Estrategia Sanitaria Nacional de Prevención y Control de Enfermedades Metaxénicas y Otras Transmitidas por Vectores"

I've tried searching for every likely spelling in English and I've come up blank. Please help if you can. TYIA.
Proposed translations (English)
5 +1 vector-borne
4 metaxenic
3 +1 vector transmitted disease/s
Change log

Jun 25, 2009 12:58: Alvaro Aliaga Created KOG entry

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (1): Alvaro Aliaga

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Discussion

Alvaro Aliaga Jun 19, 2009:
Non-PRO The way I see it you don't need a professional translator or a specialist to find the right equivalent for this particular term.
Lynda Tharratt (asker) Jun 18, 2009:
Please read the whole title In the end, I have written "National Health Strategy for Malaria and other Vector Borne Diseases". Given that: Enfermedad Metáxenica seems to be, as Omar pointed out, a very old term used by Dr. Finlay (perhaps somewhat erroneously/maybe due to the similarity between the spreading of pollen "metaxenia" and the spreading of malaria?) and the fact that the title doesn't make sense if translated as I have written below. Thanks to everyone for their input. Brainfloss: Thank you very much for your help but I'm not sure why you want this question re-classified as a Non-Pro question. Could you explain?
Alvaro Aliaga Jun 18, 2009:
You had the answer from the beginning Dear Lynda

I repeat:
a) Indeed, metaxenia and metagenics have nothing to do with metaxénico(a).
b) 'Metaxenic' is a literal translation.
I'm just trying to help here and am certainly not arguing with anybody.
Cheers!
Lynda Tharratt (asker) Jun 18, 2009:
Gentlemen, please :) The discussion that you are having is precisely the reason for my question. Please read the context originally given. I originally wrote vector-borne but that would make the title "National Health Strategy for Vector Borne Diseases and Other Vector Borne Diseases". Hence the confusion. I agree that this term a) appears to have nothing to with metaxenia or metagenics b) appears to only be used as a literal translation from Spanish. Perhaps it should only be National Health Strategy for Vector Borne Diseases, period.
Alvaro Aliaga Jun 18, 2009:
??? Esta área debe ser usada para solicitar más contexto o para discusiones relacionadas al término que se ha preguntado y no para vertir opiniones personales.
Omar Lima Quintana Jun 18, 2009:
¿Confusión? Coincido que el polen y las manzanas no tienen que ver con este tema (metaxenia).
Las enfermedades metaxenicas, sí y en el sentido dado hace más de 150 años.
Hay que tener máss cuidado.
Además y en lo personal, no me gusta "no estar de acuerdo" y votar en "desacuerdo" con una respuesta distinta a la propia.
esto no es una competencia, brainfloss.
En coherencia con lo dicho, he retirado mi "agree" a tu respuesta
porque el que está muy confuso eres tú..
Alvaro Aliaga Jun 18, 2009:
Gran confusión Los términos metaxénico y metaxenia no tiene relación alguna. El polen y las manzanas por un lado y la malaria y el vector que la transmite por otro no tienen nada que ver los unos con los otros. Hay que tener más cuidado.
Omar Lima Quintana Jun 18, 2009:
METAXENIC=VECTOR BORNE Metaxenic is the name given by Dr Carlos Finlay to Malaria, when he described for first time the intimate relationship betwen the mosquito and the disease.
The healthy vector carries the virus or the parasite. (Malaria, Dengue, Chagas-Mazza disease) and inoculates humans and other mammalians.
Lydia De Jorge Jun 18, 2009:
see links #
SAFnet Dictionary | Definition For [metaxenia]
metaxenia. the effect of pollen on maternal tissues of the fruit, e.g., the development of large seeds because of stimulated seedcoat growth after certain ...
dictionaryofforestry.org/dict/term/metaxenia - Cached - Similar
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Xenia and Metaxenia in Apples
Xenia and Metaxenia in Apples. II. B. R. Nebel and Iris J. Trump. New York Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y.. Full text. Full text is available as a scanned ...
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1076229 - Similar
by BR Nebel - 1932 - Cited by 3 - Related articles - All 8 versions
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RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS ON METAXENIA IN APPLE
ISHS VII International Symposium on Temperate Zone Fruits in the Tropics and Subtropics - Part Two RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS ON METAXENIA IN APPLE.
www.actahort.org/books/696/696_5.htm - Similar
by R Kumar - 2003 - Related articles

Proposed translations

+1
38 mins
Selected

vector-borne

Enfermedades (Infecciosas) Metaxénicas = Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases.
G'luck!
Note from asker:
By the way, I lived in Peru for nearly 10 years, 4.5 in Cuzco (the navel of the world) and the rest in Ilo, Moquegua...viva el Perú, c***jo!
Peer comment(s):
agree liz askew : This is what it means exactly, I just put an alternative way of saying it, for variety:-)
1 day 8 hrs
Thank you Liz.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "In the end, I went with the title given above in Discussion. Thanks for your input. "
4 mins

metaxenic

# [PDF]
Ecología Aplicada
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
The resistance of mosquito vectors of metaxenic diseases to chemical pesticides has increased in the last years. Facing this reality, a search of ...
redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/341/34130209.pdf - Similar
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Resumen
Control of diseases transmitted through vectors - Ecoepidemiology of tropical diseases - Immunodiagnosis of metaxenic diseases.
www.saber.ula.ve/bitstream/123456789/15180/3/resumen.htm - Cached - Similar
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Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly)
Ae. aegypti was again detected in Peru in 1984, when personnel of the National Control Program for Malaria and other Metaxenic Diseases (Ministry of Health) ...
www.bioline.org.br/request?oc01100 - Cached - Similar
by CS Andrade - 2001 - Cited by 10 - Related articles
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Revista Geográfica Venezolana vol.48 no.1; Abstract: S1012 ...
As metaxenic diseases (transmitted by vectors) in the human population are known: dengue, malaria, tripanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, among others. ...
www2.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1012-16172007000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso - Cached - Similar
Note from asker:
Hi Lydia, thank you for responding so quickly. I saw this on the Internet but wasn't quite convinced as there are a low number of hits and most of the documents are from Peru. Are you sure that this isn't just a literal translation from Spanish?
Peer comment(s):
agree Daniel Greuel
0 min
Gracias!
disagree Alvaro Aliaga : Estas referencias son todas de paises de habla hispana y los autores decidieron usar una traduccion literal 'metaxenic'
3 hrs
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+1
17 hrs

vector transmitted disease/s

Climate Cycles and Forecasts of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, a ...
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is one of the main emergent diseases in the Americas. As in other vector-transmitted diseases, its transmission is sensitive to ...
ukpmc.ac.uk/articlerender.cgi?artid=740411 - Similar
by LF Chaves - 2006 - Cited by 25 - Related articles
Academic Staff & Independent Research Fellows
(2003) Evolution in sexually and vector transmitted disease. Ecology Letters, 6, 176-182. Boots, M. & Bowers RG (2003). Do and its general role in ...
www.shef.ac.uk/aps/staff/acadstaff/boots.html - Cached - Similar
Learning Outcomes: Vector Biology & Control - Liverpool School of ...
Name the major infections transmitted / diseases caused and describe how they are transmitted / caused by the vector / insect; ...
www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/learning_teaching/post_grad/vbc.htm - Cached - Similar


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[PDF] Posibles cambios geográficos para la expansión de enfermedades ... - [ Translate this page ]
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
As metaxenic diseases (transmitted by vectors) in the human population are known: den- gue, malaria, tripanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, among others. ...
www.saber.ula.ve/bitstream/123456789/24691/2/articulo4.pdf - Similar
by S SáezVidal - 2007 - All 18 versions

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http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:HhLYCAWUtfcJ:https://ww...

both

vector borne
and vector transmitted

are used

so maybe you could use both ?
Peer comment(s):
agree Omar Lima Quintana : Vector transmited
4 hrs
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