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Behavioral and structural drivers of HIV in men who have sex with men in Belize: a mixed-methods study [PDF]

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in men who have sex with men (MSM) in Belize and identify behavioral and structural factors associated with infection.
Olusola Oladeji, Marvin L. Manzanero, Enrique Romero, Peter Baffoe   +3 more
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When First‐Line Therapies Fail: Surgical Site Infections and the Declining Antimicrobial Utility in a Resource‐Limited Nation [PDF]

MicrobiologyOpen
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a critical threat to surgical care in resource‐limited settings. This study describes the epidemiology of AMR in surgical site and wound infections in Belize from 2018 to 2024.
Innocent E. Nwachukwu, Cary W. Rivera, Vivian M. Reyes, Diomar Salazar, Lydia Harris‐Thurton, Danladi C. Husaini   +5 more
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Integrating perinatal mental health into primary health care in Belize [PDF]

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Objective. To describe the process and initial program outcomes of integrating perinatal mental health into maternal and child health services in Belize. Methods. This was an exploratory study using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Olusola Oladeji, Joanna Lai, Natalia L. Beer, Andria Spyridou, Alejandro Santiago Matus Tores, Iveth Quintanilla, Lisseth Abarca, Peter Baffoe   +7 more
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Nitrate Levels in Rural Drinking Water in Belize [PDF]

Journal of Health and Pollution, 2020
Background. Health issues have been associated with the consumption of high levels of nitrates in drinking water. Rural agricultural communities in Belize play a large role in the economic growth of the country.
Danladi Chiroma Husaini, Andrea Enriquez, Theslyn Arzu, Kelcia Miranda, Denise Mossiah, Crystal Cardinez   +5 more
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Movements and residency of Caribbean reef sharks at a remote atoll in Belize, Central America

Royal Society Open Science, 2021
We investigated spatial use patterns of 77 Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) at Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize over 7 years using residency patterns, kernel density (KD) estimation and network analysis.
Ivy E. Baremore, Rachel T. Graham, George H. Burgess, Daniel W. Castellanos   +3 more
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Effects of Risk Factors on Belizean Adolescents’ Academic Behaviors and Grit after Prolonged Absence During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Continuity in Education, 2022
This causal-comparative study explored the effects of risk factors—family status, parental marital status, family income, and parent education level—on Belizean adolescents’ academic behaviors and grit (passion and perseverance in goal achievement ...
Mathias Vairez, Jr, Frank Gomez, Jr, Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, Janeen Quiroz, Olga Manzanero   +4 more
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Cave-dwelling crocodiles of Central Belize

International Journal of Speleology, 2023
We provide the results on the first systematic effort to study cave-dwelling crocodiles in central Belize. For nearly three decades, managers at Runaway Creek Nature Reserve have frequently observed crocodile tracks and trackways in caves, while ...
Jut Wynne, Marisa Tellez, Kayla Hartwell, Stevan Reneau, Gilroy Welch, Kyle Voyles, Michael Cal, Reynold Cal, Denoy Castillo, Jane Champion   +9 more
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Recruitment and Differential Firing Patterns of Single Units During Conditioning to a Tone in a Mute Locked-In Human

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022
Single units that are not related to the desired task can become related to the task by conditioning their firing rates. We theorized that, during conditioning of firing rates to a tone, (a) unrelated single units would be recruited to the task; (b) the ...
Philip Kennedy, Andre J. Cervantes
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Oral susceptibility to ivermectin is over fifty times greater in a wild population of Anopheles albimanus mosquitoes from Belize than the STECLA laboratory reference strain of this mosquito

Malaria Journal, 2022
Background The STECLA strain of Anopheles albimanus has been in continuous colony for many years and is the reference strain on which genomic studies for the species are based.
Staci M. Dreyer, Kelsey J. Morin, Marla Magaña, Marie Pott, Donovan Leiva, Nicole L. Achee, John P. Grieco, Jefferson A. Vaughan   +7 more
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A GEE toolkit for water quality monitoring from 2002 to 2022 in support of SDG 14 and coral health in marine protected areas in Belize

Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 2022
Coral reefs are highly diverse ecosystems that provide many goods and ecosystem services globally. Coral reef ecosystems are also threatened by environmental stressors from anthropogenic sources and shifting climates.
Ileana A. Callejas, Katie Osborn, Christine Lee, Deepak R. Mishra, Nicole Auil Gomez, Abel Carrias, Emil A. Cherrington, Robert Griffin, Andria Rosado, Samir Rosado, Jennifer Jay   +10 more
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