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PLECT: Enfermedades tropicales de manifestación verrucosa

Revista Chilena de Dermatología, 2019
Cada día es más habitual ver en nuestra consulta médica enfermedades dermatológicas endémicas de zonas tropicales, gracias a los flujos migratorios recientes y aumento del turismo hacia el extranjero. Presentamos un acrónimo muy utilizado en Brasil, PLECT, que reúne a enfermedades infecciosas que deben tenerse en mente en el diferencial de lesiones ...
Felipe Alberto Da Costa-Llanos, Cristina Martinez, Luna Azulay   +2 more
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Relato de Experiencia: La Xilografía como recurso para aprender sobre escorpionismo, en niños de escuelas primarias,en ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina

Revista de Salud Pública, 2019
Introducción: Los accidentes con escorpiones datan de tiempos inmemoriales, sin embargo, recién a principios del año 2000, comenzaron a ser registrados a causa de la nueva normativa impulsada por el Ministerio de Salud de la Nación1 .
Alberto J. Pons, Adriana Miranda, Laura Pedrerol, Hugo L. Pizzi, Rogelio D. Pizzi, Mirtha G. Páez Rearte, Axel Tomas   +6 more
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Ethnobotanical and genetic assessments of Central American avocado landraces reveal novel sources of biodiversity and ancient migration patterns

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Avocados are a multibillion‐dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production. Interviews with rural avocado farmers and households from the Southern Mexican Highlands, Pacific Coastal Honduras, and Western Nicaragua, as well as the genetic ...
Kevin Wann, Heather B. Thakar, Courtney A. Hofman, Hector Neff, Logan Kistler   +4 more
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Tick‐borne diseases in subtropical dairy farming: The role of calf rearing strategies in antibody and antigen prevalence Enfermedades Transmitidas por Garrapatas en la Ganadería Lechera subtropical: El Papel de las Estrategias de Crianza de Terneros en la Prevalencia de Anticuerpos y Antígenos

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
Tropical farmers try to adapt calf‐rearing systems to temperate dairy industry standards. Calves in tick‐infested areas develop stronger immunity to TBD under controlled exposure to ticks. Early tick exposure promotes sustainable management, balancing tick infestation and developing TBD immunity.
Daniela Balseca, Valeria Paucar‐Quishpe, Richar Rodríguez‐Hidalgo, Ximena Pérez‐Otáñez, Darío Cepeda‐Bastidas, Cecilia Pérez‐Escalante, María‐Augusta Chávez‐Larrea, Sandra Enríquez, Jorge Grijalva, Sophie O. Vanwambeke, Claude Saegerman, Lenin Ron‐Garrido   +11 more
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Neutrophils as Trojan Horse Vehicles for Brucella abortus Macrophage Infection

Frontiers in Immunology, 2019
Brucella abortus is a stealthy intracellular bacterial pathogen of animals and humans. This bacterium promotes the premature cell death of neutrophils (PMN) and resists the killing action of these leukocytes. B.
Cristina Gutiérrez-Jiménez, Ricardo Mora-Cartín, Pamela Altamirano-Silva, Carlos Chacón-Díaz, Esteban Chaves-Olarte, Edgardo Moreno, Elías Barquero-Calvo   +6 more
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Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 infection on personal protective equipment (PPE)

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background SARS-CoV-2 stability and infection persistence has been studied on different surfaces, but scarce data exist related to personal protective equipment (PPE), moreover using realist viral loads for infection.
Elizabeth Córdoba-Lanús, Omar García-Pérez, Sara Cazorla-Rivero, Francisco Rodríguez-Esparragón, José-Enrique Piñero, Bernardino Clavo, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales   +6 more
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Eco‐Epidemiological Study of Seropositivity Against Rickettsia and Leptospira Agents in Rural Areas of Urabá, Colombia

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Rickettsioses and leptospirosis are infectious diseases often underdiagnosed due to limited knowledge about their epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical aspects. Objectives To characterize the seroprevalence and seroincidence of Rickettsia and Leptospira agents and determine their associated factors in rural areas of Urabá ...
Mariana Torres‐Bustamante, Omar Cantillo‐Barraza, Albert I. Ko, Elsio A. Wunder Jr, Juan C. Quintero‐Vélez   +4 more
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Salud laboral versus enfermedades tropicales e importadas [PDF]

Medicina y Seguridad del Trabajo, 2009
El objetivo de este artículo es propiciar una reflexión -focalizada en los profesionales de la salud laboral- sobre el incremento en nuestro medio de la patología tropical, entre las que se incluye aquellas enfermedades que dejaron de ser endémicas en nuestro entorno y/o que nunca estuvieron presentes y que en la actualidad sin embargo, pueden verse ...
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Predictors of Liver Steatosis Progression Among People Living With HIV in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Multicentre Longitudinal Study

Journal of the International AIDS Society, Volume 29, Issue 10, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Liver steatosis is increasingly recognized as a major comorbidity in people living with HIV (PLWH), with growing evidence suggesting an increased risk of progression to advanced liver disease. We assessed predictors of liver steatosis progression over 36 months in PLWH from low‐ and middle‐income countries.
Marie K. Plaisy, Thierry Tiendrebeogo, Carlotta Mondoka, Mark H. Kuniholm, Rodrigo de Carvalho Moreira, Aggrey Semeere, Rohidas T. Borse, Albert Minga, Gilles Wandeler, Gad Murenzi, Brenda E. Crabtree‐Ramírez, Niharika Samala, Jeremy Ross, Ephrem Mensah, Ardele Mandiriri, Sandra W. Cardoso, Jean Paul Mivumbi, Lameck Diero, Haridas Prasad, Paola Alarcón Murra, Belinda V. Chihota, Suzanne Goodrich, Thida Chanyachukul, Ellen Brazier, Stephany N. Duda, Hugo Perazzo, Antoine Jaquet, the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA)   +27 more
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Economic Impact of Dengue Virus in Mexico Over One Decade: A Systematic Literature Review (2010–2020)

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Volume 41, Issue 5, Page 1085-1093, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Dengue is a major mosquito‐borne viral disease worldwide, imposing significant healthcare burden on governments in countries where it is endemic, such as Mexico. This systematic review focused on studies reporting the cost of dengue in Mexico during 2010–2020.
Gilberto Sánchez‐González, Luz del C. Hernández‐Hernández, Elaine Gallagher   +2 more
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