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Costs-Outcome Description Arising From Side Effects due the Over-Prescription of Antibiotics in Oral Healthcare in Chile. [PDF]

J Oral Pathol Med
ABSTRACT Objective The aim of this study is to investigate the financial consequences of immediate side effects of antibiotic over‐prescription in dentistry from a societal perspective; to improve resource allocation and antibiotic prescribing practices. Methods A cost‐outcome description study was conducted, employing a decision tree model to estimate
Mariño RJ, Zaror C, Cantú P, Espinoza G.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Ecoregional and altitudinal distribution of the principal malaria vectors in Colombia [PDF]

Malaria Journal
Background In Colombia, with over 100,000 cases reported in 2023, malaria is a significant vector-borne disease. The wide range of climates and highly variable topography and land cover of the country support a high species richness, favouring different ...
María C. Carrasquilla, Ranulfo González, Sergio R. Pineda, Clara B. Ocampo, James Montoya-Lerma, Paula Pareja-Loaiza, Martha L. Ahumada   +6 more
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Pentoxifylline in the Treatment of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: A Randomized Clinical Trial in Colombia

Pathogens, 2022
Addition of the immunomodulator pentoxifylline (PTX) to antimonial treatment of mucosal leishmaniasis has shown increased efficacy. This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial evaluated whether addition of pentoxifylline to meglumine ...
Maria del Mar Castro, Alexandra Cossio, Adriana Navas, Olga Fernandez, Liliana Valderrama, Lyda Cuervo-Pardo, Ricardo Marquez-Oñate, María Adelaida Gómez, Nancy Gore Saravia   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gimnasio de simulación quirúrgica: una herramienta educacional factible de entrenamiento continuo. Experiencia de un centro universitario [PDF]

Revista Latinoamericana De Simulación Clínica, 2019
Pablo Achurra, Martin Inzunza, Cristián Jarry   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Association of Lutzomyia columbiana (Diptera: Psychodidae) with a Leishmaniasis Focus in Colombia Due to Species of the Leishmania mexicana Complex [PDF]

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1999
In Colombia, Leishmania mexicana has a scattered geographical distribution and no sand fly vectors have been associated with its transmission. During the present study, the anthropophilic sand fly Lutzomyia columbiana was found to be the only species ...
James Montoya-lerma, Horacio Cadena, Iris Segura, Bruno Luis Travi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
wiley   +1 more source

Quality parameters for RNA preparations from biopsies of ulcerated human skin [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2023
Background: Obtaining high quality RNA from skin biopsies is complex due the physical composition and high content of nucleases of this tissue. This becomes particularly challenging when using compromised skin samples with necrotic, inflammed or damaged ...
Lady Giovanna Ramirez, Lina Giraldo-Parra, María Adelaida Gómez, Adriana Navas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of the efficacy of long-lasting insecticidal nets PermaNet® 2.0 and Olyset® against Anopheles albimanus under laboratory conditions

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2011
Insecticide-treated nets provide a reduction in human-vector contact through physical barrier, mortality and/or repellent effects that protect both users and non-users, thereby protecting the wider community from vector-borne diseases like malaria.
Gloria I Jaramillo, Paulo C Robledo, Neila J Mina, Jazmin A Muñoz, Clara B Ocampo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Documentary research on social innovation in health in Latin America

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2020
Background Identifying social innovation in health initiatives, promoting quality of life through them, and transforming current health conditions demand the knowledge, comprehension and appropriation of the theoretical and methodological developments of
Diana María Castro-Arroyave, Luisa Fernanda Duque-Paz   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leopardus pajeros (Desmarest, 1816) (Carnivora: Felidae) in Northern Peru: first record for the department of Piura, at the Mangroves San Pedro de Vice, and geographic extention [PDF]

Check List, 2013
On October 1st, 2006, at the Mangroves San Pedro de Vice –MSPV (Sechura, Piura - Peru) the first visual record of Leopardus pajeros was made in the southern part of the area (05°31’09” S, 80°53’28” W).
Álvaro García-Olaechea, César Chávez-Villavicencio, Jorge Cova   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources