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The Negro in Bahia, Brazil

American Sociological Review, 1939
STUDENTS of plant, animal, and human ecology are all particularly interested in dispersion and in the migration and settlement which dispersion involves. Eugenius Warming defined "oecology" as an attempt to discover what species commonly associate together, why they congregate to form definite communities and what means they employ to adapt their ...
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Admixture and relationships of the population of Jacobina, Bahia, Brazil

American Journal of Human Biology, 1996
As part of the Cornell-Bahia project on leishmaniasis, the people of Jacobina in the state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil were studied for five genetic polymorphisms: ABO blood groups, hemoglobin variants, PGM1, 6PGD, and adenylate kinase. A maximum likelihood method of calculation of frequency of genes for these traits indicates that the ancestry of ...
Angela M M D, Lima, Eliane, Azevêdo, Henrique, Krieger, P H, Cabello, William S, Pollitzer   +4 more
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Witches’ Broom in Bahia, Brazil

1993
Approximately one-fifth of the world’s cocoa beans are produced in Brazil, of which nearly 85% originates from around 600,000 ha of the crop concentrated in the southern part of the State of Bahia. The remaining 15% comes from four states in the Amazon Basin (Rondonia, Para, Amazonas and Acre) and the states of Espirito Santo, Sao Paulo and Mato Grosso.
H. M. Rocha, R. A. C. Miranda, R. B. Sgrillo, R. A. Setubal   +3 more
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An Outbreak of Chagas' Disease in Southwestern Bahia, Brazil

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1986
An outbreak of 20 cases of acute Chagas' disease followed the movement of Triatoma infestans into the county of Riacho de Santana, Bahia, Brazil. The outbreak was unusual in that the majority of cases occurred in adults. Vector control measures were implemented.
J H, Maguire, R, Hoff, A C, Sleigh, K E, Mott, N B, Ramos, I A, Sherlock   +5 more
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The Coccids of Cacao in Bahia, Brazil

Bulletin of Entomological Research, 1950
Coccids on cacao have received much attention in recent years in connection with the transmission of swollen-shoot disease in the West African cacao belt and many papers on them have been published by British entomologists.
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Clinical aspects of endomyocardial fibrosis in Bahia, Brazil

American Heart Journal, 1971
Abstract The clinical and laboratory findings of 12 patients from Bahia, Brazil, with endomyocardial fibrosis are presented. All the patients were from the poor socioeconomic group. Eight patients who died had necropsy confirmation. The disease may present in an acute and chronic form.
A C, Guimarães, J P, Esteves, A S, Filho, V, Macedo   +3 more
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Safeguarding children in Bahia, Northeast Brazil

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2010
Context In Brazil, poverty and inequality go hand in hand with violence. Although Brazil is a middle-income country, over one in five Brazilians live in poverty and accidents and violence are the principal cause of death among children, with some of the highest rates in Brazil9s poorest states.
N Braha, C Fertleman
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Mitochondrial variation in the Bahia–Brazil population

International Congress Series, 2004
Abstract The variability of the mtDNA in 100 individuals from Bahia–Brazil was studied for the purpose of forensic investigation and population genetics. The mtDNA was extracted and amplified to obtain sequences of HVS-I and HVS-II. Amplified products were purified and sequenced, and the sequences were analysed.
M.V. Santos, C. Mendes, M. Carvalho, M.C. Vide, F. Corte-Real, D.N. Vieira   +5 more
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Legumes of Bahia [Brazil]

Taxon, 1988
Enrique Forero, G. P. Lewis
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Mosquitos breeding in Bromeliads, at Bahia, Brazil

Bulletin of Entomological Research, 1933
Twenty-one collections of larvae and pupae from Bromeliads, growing in trees or on the ground, were made in São Salvador, the capital of the State of Bahia, Brazil. Four species of Microculex and one Sabethine were bred out. Of these, one new species and certain new forms are described.
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