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Household costs for personal protection against mosquitoes: secondary outcomes from a randomised controlled trial of dengue prevention in Guerrero state, Mexico

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background Dengue is a serious public health issue that affects households in endemic areas in terms of health and also economically, imposing costs for prevention and treatment of cases. The Camino Verde cluster-randomised controlled trial in Mexico and
José Legorreta-Soberanis, Sergio Paredes-Solís, Arcadio Morales-Pérez, Elizabeth Nava-Aguilera, Felipe René Serrano-de los Santos, Belén Madeline Sánchez-Gervacio, Robert J. Ledogar, Anne Cockcroft, Neil Andersson   +8 more
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Five Serologic Tests for Strongyloides stercoralis Infection [PDF]

, 2014
Background:The diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis (S. stercoralis) infection is hampered by the suboptimal sensitivity of fecal-based tests. Serological methods are believed to be more sensitive, although assessing their accuracy is difficult because
Albonico, Marco, Angheben, Andrea, Bisoffi, Zeno, Bonafini, Stefania, Buonfrate, Dora, Cimino, Rubén Oscar, Gobbo, Maria, Krolewiecki, Alejandro Javier, Mejia, Rojelio, Muñoz, José, Nutman, Thomas B., Requena-Mendez, Ana, Sequi, Marco   +12 more
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Associations with perineal trauma during childbirth at home and in health facilities in indigenous municipalities in southern Mexico: a cross-sectional cluster survey

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2018
Background Episiotomy and perineal tears remain common in vaginal deliveries. This study estimated the frequency of and factors associated with perineal tears, episiotomies, and postnatal infections among women in two predominantly indigenous ...
Abraham de Jesús-García, Sergio Paredes-Solís, Geovani Valtierra-Gil, Felipe Rene Serrano-de los Santos, Belén Madeline Sánchez-Gervacio, Robert J. Ledogar, Neil Andersson, Anne Cockcroft   +7 more
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Telemedicine follow-ups for COVID-19: Experience in a tertiary hospital

Anales de Pediatría (English Edition), 2021
Introduction: Telemedicine is an attractive option for the follow-up of paediatric patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. The aim of this article is to describe the experience with telephone consultations in a tertiary hospital.
Javier Nogueira López, Carlos Grasa Lozano, Cristina Ots Ruiz, Luis Alonso García, Iker Falces-Romero, Cristina Calvo, Milagros García-López Hortelano   +6 more
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Household costs of dengue illness: secondary outcomes from a randomised controlled trial of dengue prevention in Guerrero state, Mexico

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background Dengue is a serious public health problem with an important economic impact. This study used data from a cluster randomised controlled trial of community mobilisation for dengue prevention to estimate the household costs of treatment of dengue
José Legorreta-Soberanis, Sergio Paredes-Solís, Arcadio Morales-Pérez, Elizabeth Nava-Aguilera, Felipe René Serrano-de los Santos, Diana Lisseth Dimas-Garcia, Robert J Ledogar, Anne Cockcroft, Neil Andersson   +8 more
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Seguimiento telemático de COVID-19: experiencia de un hospital terciario

Anales de Pediatría, 2021
Resumen: Introducción: El seguimiento telefónico es una posible alternativa para la atención médica de niños con COVID-19. Nuestro objetivo es describir la experiencia del seguimiento telemático realizado en un hospital terciario.
Javier Nogueira López, Carlos Grasa Lozano, Cristina Ots Ruiz, Luis Alonso García, Iker Falces-Romero, Cristina Calvo, Milagros García-López Hortelano   +6 more
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Assessing the effects of interventions for Aedes aegypti control: systematic review and meta-analysis of cluster randomised controlled trials

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background The Aedes aegypti mosquito is the vector for dengue fever, yellow fever, chikungunya, and zika viruses. Inadequate vector control has contributed to persistence and increase of these diseases. This review assesses the evidence of effectiveness
Víctor Alvarado-Castro, Sergio Paredes-Solís, Elizabeth Nava-Aguilera, Arcadio Morales-Pérez, Lidia Alarcón-Morales, Norma Alejandra Balderas-Vargas, Neil Andersson   +6 more
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A Fluorometric Assay for the In Vitro Evaluation of Activity against Naegleria fowleri Cysts

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a lethal and rapid infection that affects the central nervous system and is caused by the free-living amoeba Naegleria fowleri.
Iñigo Arberas-Jiménez, Aitor Rizo-Liendo, Ines Sifaoui, Javier Chao-Pellicer, José E. Piñero, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales   +5 more
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Coverage and beliefs about temephos application for control of dengue vectors and impact of a community-based prevention intervention: secondary analysis from the Camino Verde trial in Mexico

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background Temephos in domestic water containers remains a mainstay of Latin American government programmes for control of Aedes aegypti and associated illnesses, including dengue.
José Legorreta-Soberanis, Sergio Paredes-Solís, Arcadio Morales-Pérez, Elizabeth Nava-Aguilera, Felipé René Serrano de los Santos, Belén Madeline Sánchez-Gervacio, Robert J. Ledogar, Anne Cockcroft, Neil Andersson   +8 more
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Carga mundial de las enfermedades tropicales olvidadas

Revista Científica Higía de la Salud, 2023
Las enfermedades tropicales desatendidas (ETD) son una enfermedad tropical relacionada con la pobreza, por un lado, no se les presta suficiente atención, aunque están muy extendidas y conducen a enfermedades graves y duraderas, por otro lado, afectan particularmente a la parte más pobre de la población en países que ya son pobres, estas personas por lo
Angie Lissette Cajape González, Ashley Madelaine Cano Alvarado, Michael Cristopher Mendoza Rodríguez   +2 more
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