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Impact on Occupational Health by Teleworking during the Coronavirus disease (Covid 19) Pandemic

Safety and Health at Work, 2022
Alvaro Arrivillaga, Wendy Garcia, Glenda Gramajo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Insights into the transmission cycle of cutaneous leishmaniasis from an endemic community in rural Guatemala

Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a parasitic vector-borne disease prevalent in 90 countries. Despite its endemicity in Guatemala, key transmission factors are still unknown.
Yaimie Lopez, Aitor Casas-Sanchez, Byron Arana, Nidia Rizzo, Erick Duran, Norma Padilla, Andrea de la Vega, Esteban Bustamante, Álvaro Acosta-Serrano, Renata Mendizabal-Cabrera   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genomic insights on the ethno-history of the Maya and the ‘Ladinos’ from Guatemala

BMC Genomics, 2015
Guatemala is a multiethnic and multilingual country located in Central America. The main population groups separate ‘Ladinos’ (mixed Native American-African-Spanish), and Native indigenous people of Maya descent.
Jens Söchtig, V. Álvarez-Iglesias, A. Mosquera‐Miguel, M. Gelabert‐Besada, A. Gómez-Carballa, A. Salas   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Antimicrobial stewardship practices in Guatemala: communication, perceptions, and behaviors regarding antimicrobial prescribing

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Objective: To describe antimicrobial prescribing practices in 4 hospitals in Guatemala to guide the development of an ongoing antimicrobial stewardship (AS) project. Design: A cross-sectional mixed methodologies descriptive study design. Participants
Dana R. Bowers, Clara Secaira, Nancy Sandoval, Mario Melgar, Nuria Chavez, Randall Lou-Meda, Herberth Maldonado, Brooke M. Ramay   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contribution to the knowledge of urban biodiversity in Central America: A checklist to the species of Guatemala City [PDF]

Neotropical Biology and Conservation
This short communication synthesizes biodiversity records of urban green spaces in Guatemala City. The research was conducted in the “Cinturón Ecológico Municipal”, or “Municipal Ecological Green Belt”, which consists of ravines covered with natural ...
Fernando José Castillo-Cabrera, Rosa Alejandra Roldán, Mercedes Barrios, Claudia L. Burgos-Barrios, A. Lucía Grajeda, Manolo J. García, Harim Cruz, J. Renato Morales-Mérida, Daniel Tenez, Mabel Vásquez, Emmanuel O. Agreda, Isabel Velásquez, Alicia Eufragio, Raiza Barahona-Fong, Carmen Lucía Yurrita, K. Samanta Orellana   +15 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Dialysis enrollment patterns in Guatemala: evidence of the chronic kidney disease of non-traditional causes epidemic in Mesoamerica

BMC Nephrology, 2015
BackgroundIn western Nicaragua and El Salvador, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is highly prevalent and generally affects young, male, agricultural (usually sugar cane) workers without the established CKD risk factors. It is yet unknown if the prevalence of
Timothy S. Laux, J. Barnoya, D. R. Guerrero, M. Rothstein   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Treatment Compliance as a Major Barrier to Optimal Cervical Cancer Treatment in Guatemala

Journal of Global Oncology, 2019
PURPOSE: Despite being the only hospital to provide comprehensive cervical cancer treatment to many medically underserved Guatemalan women, no assessment of the cervical cancer patient population at the Guatemala Cancer Institute has been performed.
Abigail S. Zamorano, Joaquin Barnoya, Eduardo Gharzouzi, Camaryn Chrisman Robbins, Emperatriz Orozco, Sarita Polo Guerra, David G. Mutch   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Remittances, household expenditure and investment in Guatemala

, 2005
The author uses a large household data set from Guatemala to analyze how the receipt of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) affects the marginal spending behavior of households on various ...
R. Adams
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Genetic Diversity and Differentiation Among Guatemalan Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton) Accessions

Plants
Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton) is a major export crop in Guatemala; however, its genetic basis remains largely unexplored. This study aimed to evaluate the genetic diversity and differentiation among 288 cardamom accessions from the Northern ...
Martha Patricia Herrera-González, Lizbeth Coxaj, Ana Oliva, Margarita Palmieri, Alejandra Zamora-Jerez, Rolando Cifuentes-Velasquez, Santiago Pereira-Lorenzo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Guatemala

, 1916
The challenges to the respect of human rights remain significant and widespread in Guatemala. The violation of the human rights of certain majority sectors of society continues to be a common thread which has marked Guatemala since its internal armed ...
Jon M. Clausen
semanticscholar   +1 more source