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Brucellosis in Central America

Veterinary Microbiology, 2002
Brucellosis is a disease of domestic animals and humans in Central America (CA). Bovine and swine brucellosis caused by Brucella abortus and Brucella suis, respectively, have been identified in all CA countries, while ovine and caprine brucellosis caused by Brucella melitensis has been detected in Guatemala.
Edgardo Moreno
exaly   +4 more sources

Expression of Concern: Mapping climate adaptation corridors for biodiversity-A regional-scale case study in Central America. [PDF]

PLoS One
PLOS One Editors.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Declines in skeletal muscle quality vs. size following two weeks of knee joint immobilization [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Background Disuse of a muscle group, which occurs during bedrest, spaceflight, and limb immobilization, results in atrophy. It is unclear, however, if the magnitude of decline in skeletal muscle quality is similar to that for muscle size.
Rob J. MacLennan, Michael Sahebi, Nathan Becker, Ethan Davis, Jeanette M. Garcia, Matt S. Stock   +5 more
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A survey of aquatic macroinvertebrates in a river from the dry corridor of Nicaragua using biological indices and DNA barcoding

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Aquatic macroinvertebrates are widely used as indicators for water quality assessment around the world. Modern strategies for environmental assessment implement molecular analysis to delimitate species of aquatic macroinvertebrates.
Bryant H. Mendoza‐Ramírez, Lucía Páiz‐Medina, Thelma Salvatierra‐Suárez, Nelvia Hernández, Jorge A. Huete‐Pérez   +4 more
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Current situation of neuropathology in Central America [PDF]

Frontiers in Oncology
Delgado MN.
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Overweight and obesity of school-age children in El Salvador according to two international systems: a population-based multilevel and spatial analysis

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background The World Health Organization (WHO-2007) and the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF-Cole) systems assess child weight status. However, derived estimations often differ.
Wilton Pérez, Paul Melgar, Ana Garcés, Ana Daysi de Marquez, Gerardo Merino, Carolina Siu   +5 more
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Central America’s Deindustrialization

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2022
The paper assembles and harmonizes sectoral data from several sources to study the industrial trends in six Central American economies. The industrial employment share contracted by 2.5 percentage points on average over the past two decades. This deindustrialization was not trade-driven in which economies substitute domestic production of industrial ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Taxation and incarceration in Guatemala: Prisons, protection rackets, and citizenship

European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2023
This article explores the making of carceral citizenship in Guatemala through an ethnographic analysis of la talacha – informal prison taxation schemes. Taxation is a key technology of citizenship.
Anthony Wayne Fontes
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Me, My “Selfie” and I: A Survey of Self-disclosure Motivations on Social Media

IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2017
Personal photo-sharing has become a popular activity across social media platforms as a self-disclosure activity. A survey of 366 (N=366) individuals via a web-based questionnaire measured correlations between photo-sharing on social networking sites ...
Patricia Williamson, Trey Stohlman, Heather Polinsky   +2 more
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The process for recognizing of foreign medical degrees in Costa Rica: a statistical survey for the past 15 years

GMS Journal for Medical Education, 2021
This article presents the most important developments in the recognition process of foreign medical degrees in Costa Rica over the past fifteen years. Most applicants received their medical degrees in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Mexico.
Salazar Sánchez, Lizbeth, Cordero Solis, Juan José, López Dávila, Alfredo J.   +2 more
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