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Performance Evaluation of the VISITECT CD4 Lateral Flow Point‐Of‐Care Assay for Identifying Advanced HIV Disease

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis, EarlyView.
The VISITECT CD4 lateral flow assay (LFA) was evaluated for identifying advanced HIV disease (CD4 ≤ 200 cells/μL) during routine programmatic implementation in Argentina. The assay showed 100% sensitivity, while specificity improved after observer training, reflecting reduced reader‐dependent variability.
Mariana Andreani, Claudia E. Frola, Liliana Guelfand, Fabiana C. Chaile, José Barletta, María J. Rolón, Mariana Erbin, Juan L. Rodriguez‐Tudela   +7 more
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Beneficios de la apendicectomía videolaparoscópica versus Técnica convencional en el Hospital Central de las FFAA. Periodo febrero de 2017 - Agosto de 2019

Cirugía Paraguaya, 2020
Se realizó un estudio observacional retrospectivo descriptivo de corte trasversal en 195 pacientes operados para determinar los beneficios de la apendicetomía videolaparoscopica versus la técnica convencional durante el periodo de febrero 2017 a agosto ...
Darío Fretes, Hernando Raúl Cardozo A, Alejando Manuel Caballero R, Amanda Fretes, Magín Benítez, Cynthia Patricia Verdecchia Insfran   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bias Correction of ERA5 Temperature Across Five Topoclimatic Clusters: A Comparative Evaluation of Four Methods

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
ERA5 near‐surface temperature over South America exhibits systematic cold biases in daily maximum temperature and warm biases in daily minimum temperature. To address the continent's strong climatic and topographic heterogeneity, South America was partitioned into five topoclimatic clusters, and four bias‐correction approaches were evaluated. The Multi‐
José Roberto Rozante, Gabriela Rozante
wiley   +1 more source

A new old species of Tetracera (Dilleniaceae) from Espinhaço Range, Brazil

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Tetracera is the only genus within Dilleniaceae with a pantropical distribution. During efforts for a taxonomic revision of the neotropical species, we identified incongruences between application of names and their taxonomic identities, based on protologue and type specimen analysis. Here we describe a new species for the genus bearing a single carpel
Michelly D. F. Araújo, João V. L. Monzoli, Leandro L. Giacomin, Claudio N. Fraga   +3 more
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Two new endemic species of Portulaca (Portulacaceae) from the Brazilian Pampa grasslands

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Portulaca L. is a monophyletic, cosmopolitan genus of succulent plants comprising ca 153 species, with particularly high diversity in xerophytic ecosystems in tropical and subtropical regions. Based on morphological evidence, we describe and illustrate two new species from the Brazilian Pampa, Portulaca guaritensis and Portulaca guenoa.
José Roberto Ferraz, Bárbara Pinheiro Moreira, João Marcelo Alvarenga Braga, Leonardo Paz Deble   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López, Samara López‐Ruiz, Gabriela Cuadrado‐Quesada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Características clínicas y epidemiológicas de pacientes con Artritis Reumatoide de un Centro Reumatológico de Paraguay

Revista Paraguaya de Reumatología
Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, inflammatory, autoimmune disease that primarily affects the joints and can present with systemic manifestations.
Celia Concepción Ortigoza Ortiz, Jessica Ocampos Leiva, Nilton Osmar Torres Alvarenga   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Carbon VIX, Climate Risk and Financial Stability New Evidence From Developing Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of the carbon VIX and climate risk on financial stability through the banking Z‐score in developing economies. Using the Dynamic Panel Threshold Model of 106 developing countries from 2012 to 2022, the results reveal that both carbon VIX and climate risk exert a significant negative influence on banking ...
Alanoud Al‐Maadid, Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Kamal Si Mohammed, Omer Salih Mohammed Abker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of patterns related to wildlife roadkill in the Humid Chaco of Paraguay [PDF]

One Ecosystem
Paved roads are a solution for communication between human societies, but at the same time, their expansion is detrimental to wildlife. In this work, vertebrate mortality events due to traffic collisions on National Route N° 5, in a 50 km stretch from ...
José Luis Cartes Yegros, Mariela Santacruz, Diego Gómez, Marcela Ferreira Riveros, Hugo del Castillo, Lorena Sforza, Dolly Rivas, Pier Cacciali   +7 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Rediscovery of Amphisbaena prunicolor (Cope, 1885) (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) in Paraguay

, 2020
Amphisbaena prunicolor is a worm-lizard distributed in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. In Paraguay, the species was known for only one record in southern Paraguay.
Santana, Diego José [UNESP], Cabral, Hugo [UNESP], Ferreira, Marcela   +2 more
core   +1 more source