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An Outbreak of Bartonella bacilliformis in an Endemic Andean Community [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2016 Bartonellosis affects small Andean communities in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. Research in this area has been limited.Retrospective review of 191 cases of bartonellosis managed in Caraz District Hospital, Peru, during the last outbreak (2003).The majority of cases (65%) were 14 years old and younger.
Sanchez Clemente, Nuria +4 more
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“Wawa Pampay”: Andean Ritual for the Emotional Transformation of Grief in an Andean Community
ReligionsThe “Wawa Pampay” is an Andean funeral ritual that allows Quechua-speaking communities to collectively process grief over the death of a child, integrating ancestral beliefs and symbolic practices that have been passed down over generations. This study aimed to understand the cultural and emotional significance of this ritual, as well as to document ...
Edgar Gutiérrez-Gómez +5 more
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Epilepsy and neurocysticercosis in an Andean community [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiology, 1999 Taenia solium neurocysticercosis (NCC) has been documented as one of the major causes of epilepsy in developing countries. However, methodological limitations have hindered the evaluation of the epidemiological relationship between cysticercosis and epilepsy at the community level.We used the WHO protocol for epidemiological evaluation of neurological ...
M E, Cruz +9 more
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Historical Assembly of Andean Tree Communities
Plants, 2023 Patterns of species diversity have been associated with changes in climate across latitude and elevation. However, the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying these relationships are still actively debated. Here, we present a complementary view of the well-known tropical niche conservatism (TNC) hypothesis, termed the multiple zones of origin
Sebastián González-Caro +23 more
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Andean community approach on drugs
Perspectivas en Inteligencia, 2022 According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy of the White House, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia produce the totality of cocaine that is exported to consumer countries all over the world. However, after many years trying to reduce the plantation of coca plants in these three countries, it has been observed an increase in the records of the ...
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, 2022 Within the integration processes in the world, it is necessary to remark the experience of the integration process that has happened in our region since the subscription of CartagenaAgreement (May 26th of 1969), that in it’s institutional evolution in the last five decades has created a regulatory system own to its history , practices and organization ...
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Andean Community Trade Flows and Policies in the Nineties
, 2001 The purpose of this paper is to explain why the member countries of the Andean Community (AC), have taken so long to complete the Andean Free Trade Area and have repeatedly delayed the deadline for achieving the Andean Customs Union. The go decision-making process arrives to two main findings.
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