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High prevalence of simian foamy virus infection of South American Indians. [PDF]

PLoS Pathog
Simian foamy viruses (SFV) are retroviruses that widely infect nonhuman primates of New and Old-World origin and exhibit long-standing co-evolution with their hosts.
Switzer WM, Zheng H, Muniz CP, Pan Y, Jia H, Tang S, Shankar A, Cintron R, Drobeniuc J, Soares MA, Heneine W.   +10 more
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Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South

Ethnobiology Letters, 2010
Review of Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South. Shepard Krech III. 2009. University of Georgia Press, Athens. Pp. 245, copiously illustrated. $44.95 (hardbound). ISBN-13 978-0-8203-2815-7.
E. N. Anderson
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Indian South Africans as a middleman minority: Historical and contemporary perspectives

Contree, 2022
Beginning in the 1940s, a literature on middleman minorities emerged to demystify the intermediary economic niche that Jews had occupied in medieval Europe. They were viewed as ethnic entrepreneurs occupying the economic status gap.
Vernon D. Johnson
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South American Indians: a case study in evolution

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 1989
Ricardo Ventura Santos
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Latin American Indians through Dialogue and Speech Acts in the Travel of Alexander von Humboldt

Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2019
When Humboldt traveled through Latin America, many indigenous languages were still spoken despite three centuries of European colonialism. While Alexander von Humboldt explores geography and analyzes the Native South American languages, he also takes ...
Adrián Herrera
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Prevalence of antibodies against hepatitis A virus among the Kuikuro and Kaiabi Indians of Xingu National Park, Brazil Prevalência de anticorpos contra o vírus da hepatite A entre os índios Kuikuro e Kaiabi do Parque Indígena do Xingu, Brasil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2007
A seroprevalence study to detect total antibodies against Hepatitis A Virus was done with 220 samples from 589 Native Indians from Xingu National Park, Brazil, in five Kaiabi and Kuikuro villages, the most populous ethnic groups.
Manuel Mindlin Lafer, Maria Isabel de Moraes-Pinto, Lily Yin Weckx   +2 more
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Diabetic retinopathy among Brazilian Xavante Indians

Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, 2018
Background To describe the frequency of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and its associated variables in Brazilian Xavante Indians. Methods A population-based survey carried out in two Xavante Reservations between 2008 and 2012, included 948 Indians aged 20 ...
Carlos Gustavo M. G. Lima, Laercio Joel Franco, Amaury L. Dal Fabbro, Edson Z. Martinez, João Paulo Botelho Veira-Filho, Alexandre A. C. M. Ventura, Leonardo Prevelato, Antonio Augusto V. Cruz   +7 more
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Prevalence of Obesity and Overweight in an Indigenous Population in Central Brazil: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Obesity Facts, 2015
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of obesity and overweight and associated factors in indigenous people of the Jaguapiru village in Central Brazil. Methods: We conducted a population-based cross-sectional study between January 2009 and July 2011 in ...
Geraldo F. Oliveira, Teresinha Regina R. Oliveira, Adauto T. Ikejiri, Tais F. Galvao, Marcus T. Silva, Mauricio G. Pereira   +5 more
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Caries experience in children under 5 years old in the Xingu indigenous park in Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, 2021
Aim: The present study sought to investigate dental caries experience and its association with sociodemographic, postnatal and breastfeeding variables in children in the agerange from 6 to 71 months of age, in the Xingu Indigenous Park, Mato Grosso ...
Alana Cristina Guisilini, Jaqueline Vilela Bulgareli, Luciane Miranda Guerra, Antonio Carlos Pereira, Inara Pereira da Cunha, Pablo Natanael Lemos, Rosana de Fátima Possobon, Karine Laura Cortellazzi   +7 more
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Estudos epidemiológicos entre grupos indígenas de Rondônia: IV. Inquérito sorológico para rotavírus entre os Suruí e Karitiána Epidemiological studies among Amerindians of Rondônia: IV. Note of serological survey for rotavirus antibodies among Suruí and Karitiána

Revista de Saúde Pública, 1991
São apresentados os dados de um inquérito soro epidemiológico para anticorpos anti-rotavírus conduzido entre os Suruí e Karitiána, dois grupos indígenas de Rondônia, Brasil. Os resultados indicam que as porcentagens de soropositividade são elevadas (67,8%
Ricardo V. Santos, Alexandre C. Linhares, Carlos E.A. Coimbra Jr.   +2 more
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