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Trasmisión de Toxoplasma gondii en Costa Rica: Un concepto actualizado

Acta Médica Costarricense, 2001
Los hallazgos más recientes en cuanto a la trasmisión del Toxoplasma gondii en Costa Rica nos indican que la ingestión de carne poco cocida, así como de algunos embutidos, en donde se ha encontrado el parásito en forma viable, son mecanismos de infección
Liliana Reyes-Lizano, Misael Chinchilla-Carmona, Olga M. Guerrero-Bermúdez, María Laura Arias-Echandi, Alfredo Castro-Castillo   +4 more
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Mapping the global distribution of Strongyloides stercoralis and hookworms by ecological niche modeling

Parasites & Vectors, 2022
Background The WHO has established a control strategy for Strongyloides stercoralis in school-aged children as well as targets and to maintain control programs for Ascaris lumbricoides , Trichuris trichiura and hookworms.
Pedro Emanuel Fleitas, Sebastián Dario Kehl, Walter Lopez, Marina Travacio, Elvia Nieves, José Fernando Gil, Rubén Oscar Cimino, Alejandro Javier Krolewiecki   +7 more
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A multiplex assay to detect mosquito species, bloodmeal host source and Plasmodium in malaria vectors using Nanopore amplicon sequencing

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
Insectary‐reared mosquitoes were simultaneously assessed for species identification, bloodmeal source analysis and Plasmodium detection, using a single multiplexed sequencing run on the MinION sequencing platform. The method was applied to 150 insectary‐reared mosquitoes, representing nine species blood‐fed with five vertebrate hosts and 40 samples for
E. Abby Rogers, Dieunel Derilus, Christopher Sandi, Lisa Reimer, Audrey Lenhart, Lucy Mackenzie Impoinvil   +5 more
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Disease progression velocity as predictor of severity in Guillain-Barre syndrome

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2021
Objective: To identify the velocity of disease progression as a predictor of severity in patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). Materials and methods: Prospective observational study of patients with confirmed diagnosis of GBS between May and ...
Raúl Montalvo, Alex Castañeda, Jorge A. López, Cecilia Mathey   +3 more
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Colocalization of Dopamine D1 and D2 Receptors With Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase in the Rat Paraventricular Nucleus: A Structural Basis for Dopaminergic–Nitrergic Interaction

Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia, Volume 55, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The paraventricular nucleus (PVN) plays a central role in neuroendocrine and autonomic regulation, including male sexual behaviour. Dopaminergic and nitrergic signalling within the PVN are functionally linked, but their cellular relationship remains unclear.
Aixa R. Bello, Manuel Mas, Ricardo Reyes
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Identification of human intestinal parasites affecting an asymptomatic peri-urban Argentinian population using multi-parallel quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction

Parasites & Vectors, 2015
Background In resource-limited countries, stool microscopy is the diagnostic test of choice for intestinal parasites (soil-transmitted helminths and/or intestinal protozoa). However, sensitivity and specificity is low.
Rubén O. Cimino, Rebecca Jeun, Marisa Juarez, Pamela S. Cajal, Paola Vargas, Adriana Echazú, Patricia E. Bryan, Julio Nasser, Alejandro Krolewiecki, Rojelio Mejia   +9 more
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Salud laboral versus enfermedades tropicales e importadas [PDF]

Medicina y Seguridad del Trabajo, 2009
Artículos especiales [ES] 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 ...
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Understanding Opportunity Costs of Women Participating in Maternal and Child Nutrition Interventions in Southern Angola: Evidence From the MuCCUA Trial

Maternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 22, Issue 3, July 2026.
Economic evaluations of multisectoral nutrition interventions often overlook participants' costs. Using MuCCUA trial data, we estimated women's opportunity costs of three maternal and child nutrition interventions in Angola. Remote participants faced burdens equivalent to 1–1.5 workdays monthly.
Rocio Martin‐Cañavate, Antonio Pujol‐de Castro, Chloe Puett, Elena Trigo, Maria de Lourdes Faria, Ana Silva Gerardo, Antonio Vargas, Israel Molina, Estefania Custodio   +8 more
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Caries en primeros molares permanentes y factores asociados a esta en escolares de Acapulco

Revista Cubana de Estomatología, 2021
Introducción: La caries es una de las enfermedades bucodentales más frecuentes y, por ser las primeras en emerger, los primeros molares permanentes son las piezas más susceptibles a esta afección.
Karina Reyna-Rosales, Sergio Paredes Solís, Miguel Flores-Moreno, Claudia Erika Rios-Rivera, Sergio Paredes-Juárez, Neil Anderson   +5 more
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Infection by the Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex in patients with HIV/AIDS in a Peruvian hospital: a series of cases

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2017
There is little information on the presence of the Mycobacterium avium-Intracellulare (MAC) complex in Peru. Five cases of MAC infection are described in patients with HIV/AIDS at the National Hospital Dos de Mayo, Lima – Peru.
César Ticona-Huaroto, Lilian Astocondor-Salazar, Juan Montenegro-Idrogo, Gustavo Valencia-Mesias, Jaime Soria   +4 more
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