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Commentaries on some South American Indian drugs and related paraphernalia.

Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 1993
Revision of developments in the research on psycho-active substances used by pre-historic and modem South American Indian populations with an emphasis on the associations of the employed artifacts with the animal world.
S. Henry Wassé
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Human onchocerciasis in Brazil: an overview

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2002
Human onchocerciasis was recently discovered in Brazil among Yanomámi Indians living along the border region with Venezuela in the States of Amazonas and Roraima.
Shelley Anthony J.
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Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum from Suruí Indian subjects, Brazilian Amazon

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006
This investigation aimed at the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in the sputum of Suruí Indian subjects from Amazonia, Brazil. Polymerase chain reaction analyses were positive for12 samples, five of which were also culture-positive (N = 147).
Paulo Cesar Basta, Maraníbia AC Oelemann, Walter MR Oelemann, Leila de Souza Fonseca, Carlos EA Coimbra Jr   +4 more
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Enslaved in a Free Country: Legalized Exploitation of Native Americans and African Americans in Early California and the Post-Emancipation South

Journal of Law and Political Economy, 2022
In 1850, California joined the United States as a free state. However, one of its first laws, the 1850 Law for the Government and Protection of Indians, legalized the enslavement of California Indians.
Beth Rose Middleton Manning, Steven Gayle   +1 more
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Epidemiologic and Clinical Progression of Lobomycosis among Kaiabi Indians, Brazil, 1965–2019

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
Lobomycosis is a rare granulomatous skin disease with a high prevalence in the Amazon region. The Kaiabi Indians are an especially affected group. We studied the current epidemiologic and clinical progression of lobomycosis among the Kaiabi in Brazil ...
Marcos C. Florian, Douglas A. Rodrigues, Sofia B.M. de Mendonça, Arnaldo L. Colombo, Jane Tomimori   +4 more
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“No, but where are you really from?” Experiences of perceived discrimination and identity development among Asian Indian adolescents

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Asian Indians were the first South Asians to immigrate to the United States in the late 1800s and are currently the largest ethnic group of South Asians living in the United States.
Asha K. Unni, Jamilia J. Blake, Phia S. Salter, Wen Luo, Jeffrey Liew   +4 more
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Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type II in Guaraní Indians, Southern Brazil Vírus linfotrópico de células T-humanas do tipo II em Índios Guaraní, Sul do Brasil

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2005
Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II) is found in many New World Indian groups on the American continent. In Brazil, HTLV-II has been found among urban residents and Indians in the Amazon region, in the North.
Marcio Menna-Barreto, Ana Ligia Bender, Sandro L. Bonatto, Loreta B. Freitas, Francisco M. Salzano, Luiza T. Tsuneto, Maria Luiza Petzl-Erler   +6 more
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Gradients of HLA diversity in South American Indians

Annals of Human Biology, 1997
Information concerning the HLA-A and -B loci was considered in relation to 3796 Amerindians living in 39 places in South America, data related to HLA-C being based on a smaller subset of 2989 persons distributed among 33 localities. Synthetic gene frequency maps were then constructed using principal-components analysis. Clearly significant longitudinal
F, Rothhammer, C, Silva, S M, Callegari-Jacques, E, Llop, F M, Salzano   +4 more
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Comparison of Hemoglobin A1c with fasting and 2-h plasma glucose tests for diagnosis of diabetes and prediabetes among high-risk South Indians

Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2018
Background: Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) has not been evaluated extensively for diabetes and prediabetes diagnosis and short-term variability of fasting plasma glucose (FPG), 2-h PG post-75 g glucose load (2 hPG) and HbA1c has not been studied among ...
Pedapati Radhakrishna, Kolar Vishwanath Vinod, Akkilagunta Sujiv, Rathinam Palamalai Swaminathan   +3 more
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The Handbook of South American Indians [PDF]

The Hispanic American Historical Review, 1948
The factual portion of the Handbook of South American Indians has now been completed. It consists of four volumes each containing more than six hundred pages. A fifth one dealing with the geographical background, demography, physical anthropology, languages, and the comparative and distributional aspects of aboriginal South American Indian cultures is ...
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