• El sesquicentenario de la Campaña Nacional y la historiografía costarricense 

  Díaz Arias, David (2008-01-01)

  Este trabajo examina la historiografía costarricense sobre la Campaña Nacional de 1856-1857 que apareció durante el sesquicentenario de ese acontecimiento en 2006-2007.

• Primer hallazgo de Aedes albopictus Skuse en el Gran Área Metropolitana de Costa Rica 

  Marín Rodríguez, Rodrigo; Calderón Arguedas, Ólger; Díaz Ríos, Mariela; Duarte Solano, Gustavo; Valle Arguedas, José Joaquín; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana (2014)

  Objetivo: Informar sobre el primer hallazgo de Aedes albopictus en el Gran Área Metropolitana de Costa Rica. Métodos: Formas inmaduras de mosquitos colectadas en la Ciudadela La Carpio, Distrito Uruca, San José, como parte ...

• El Niño Southern Oscillation and vegetation dynamics as predictors of dengue fever cases in Costa Rica 

  Fuller, Douglas O.; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana; Beier, John C. (2009-03-04)

  Dengue fever (DF) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) are growing health concerns throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. This study focuses on Costa Rica, which experienced over 100 000 cases of DF/DHF from 2003 to ...

• The effects of human movement on the persistence of vector-borne diseases 

  Cosner, Chris; Beier, John C.; Cantrell, Robert Stephen; Impoinvil, Daniel E.; Kapitanski, Lev; Potts, Matthew David; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana; Ruan, Shigui (2009-06)

  With the recent resurgence of vector-borne diseases due to urbanization and development there is an urgent need to understand the dynamics of vector-borne diseases in rapidly changing urban environments. For example, many ...

• Developing a cooperative multicenter study in Latin America: Lessons learned from the Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health Project 

  Fisberg, Mauro; Kovalskys, Irina; Gómez Salas, Georgina; Pareja Torres, Rossina Gabriella; Yépez García, Martha Cecilia; Cortés Sanabria, Lilia Yadira; Herrera Cuenca, Marianella; Rigotti, Attilio; Guajardo, Viviana; Zalcman Zimberg, Ioná; Previdelli, Ágatha Nogueira; Moreno Aznar, Luis A.; Pratt, Michael; Koletzko, Berthold V.; Tucker, Katherine L. (2017)

  This report examines the challenges of conducting a multicenter, cross-sectional study of coun- tries with diverse cultures, and shares the lessons learned. The Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health (ELANS) was used ...

• Urban structure and dengue incidence in Puntarenas, Costa Rica 

  Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana; Fuller, Douglas O.; Calderón Arguedas, Ólger; Solano Chinchilla, Mayra Emilia; Beier, John C. (2009-07-15)

  Dengue is currently the most important arboviral disease globally and is usually associated with built environments in tropical areas. Remotely sensed information can facilitate the study of urban mosquito-borne diseases ...

• Participatory risk mapping of malaria vector exposure in northern South America using environmental and population data 

  Fuller, Douglas O.; Troyo Rodríguez, Adriana; Alimi, Taiwo; Beier, John C. (2014-03-01)

  Malaria elimination remains a major public health challenge in many tropical regions, including large areas of northern South America. In this study, we present a new high spatial resolution (90 × 90 m) risk map for Colombia ...

• Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health (ELANS): rationale and study design 

  Fisberg, Mauro; Kovalskys, Irina; Gómez Salas, Georgina; Rigotti, Attilio; Cortés Sanabria, Lilia Yadira; Herrera Cuenca, Marianella; Yépez García, Martha Cecilia; Pareja Torres, Rossina Gabriella; Guajardo, Viviana; Zalcman Zimberg, Ioná; Chiavegatto Filho, Alexandre Dias Porto; Pratt, Michael; Koletzko, Berthold V.; Tucker, Katherine L. (2016-01)

  Abstract Background: Obesity is growing at an alarming rate in Latin America. Lifestyle behaviours such as physical activity and dietary intake have been largely associated with obesity in many countries; however studies ...

• Standardization of the Food Composition Database Used in the Latin American Nutrition and Health Study (ELANS) 

  Kovalskys, Irina; Fisberg, Mauro; Gómez Salas, Georgina; Rigotti, Attilio; Cortés Sanabria, Lilia Yadira; Yépez García, Martha Cecilia; Pareja Torres, Rossina Gabriella; Herrera Cuenca, Marianella; Zalcman Zimberg, Ioná; Tucker, Katherine L.; Koletzko, Berthold V.; Pratt, Michael (2015-09)

  Between-country comparisons of estimated dietary intake are particularly prone to error when different food composition tables are used. The objective of this study was to describe our procedures and rationale for the ...

• Discrepancia o discución en torno al tema del título en la usucapión 

  Quirós Lobo, Gabriela María (2008)

  El instituto de la usucapión, antecedentes, historia, evolución y instauración como un modo de adquirir la propiedad de manera originaria es el punto de partida de la presente tesis.viii Los elementos como institutos ...

• Relevance of the plasminogen activation system in the pathogenesis and progression of gastric cancer 

  Alpízar Alpízar, Warner; Ramírez Mayorga, Vanessa; Malespín Bendaña, Wendy Karina; Une, Clas (2018-03)

  Gastric cancer is ranked as the third death-causing cancer and one of the most incident malignancies worldwide. Although Helicobacter pylori is the most well-established risk factor for the development of this neoplasm, ...

• Myxomycete diversity in Costa Rica 

  Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso; Rojas Camacho, Pedro; Lado, Carlos (2018-04)

  An updated analysis of myxomycete diversity in Costa Rica is provided herein as a product of an extensive data mining-based study intended to normalize the information on myxomycetes from that country. Within the context ...

• A call-and-response system facilitates group cohesion among disc-winged bats 

  Chaverri Echandi, Gloriana; Gillam, Erin H.; Kunz, Thomas H. (2013)

  Acoustic signals are important in maintaining group cohesion, particularly in highly mobile species. For these signals to facilitate group cohesion, individuals must be able to recognize, and respond to, calls emitted by ...

• Total and Added Sugar Intake: Assessment in Eight Latin American Countries 

  Fisberg, Mauro; Kovalskys, Irina; Gómez Salas, Georgina; Rigotti, Attilio; Cortés Sanabria, Lilia Yadira; Yépez García, Martha Cecilia; Pareja Torres, Rossina Gabriella; Herrera Cuenca, Marianella; Zalcman Zimberg, Ioná; Koletzko, Berthold V.; Pratt, Michael; Moreno Aznar, Luis A.; Guajardo, Viviana; Fisberg, Regina Mara; Hermes Sales, Cristiane; Previdelli, Ágatha Nogueira (2018-03)

  Non-communicable diseases are growing at an alarming rate in Latin America. We assessed total and added sugar intake in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, to verify the adequacy ...

• Two Groups of Cocirculating, Epidemic Clostridiodes difficile Strains Microdiversify through Different Mechanisms 

  Murillo Corrales, Tatiana; Ramírez Vargas, Gabriel; Riedel, Thomas; Overmann, Jörg; Andersen, Joakim M; Guzmán Verri, Caterina; Chaves Olarte, Esteban; Rodríguez Sánchez, César (2018-03)

  Clostridiodes difficile strains from the NAPCR1/ST54 and NAP1/ST01 types have caused outbreaks despite of their notable differences in genome diversity. By comparing whole genome sequences of 32 NAPCR1/ST54 isolates and ...

• Isolates of Clostridium perfringens recovered from Costa Rican patients with antibiotic-associated diarrhoea are mostly enterotoxin-negative and susceptible to first-choice antimicrobials 

  Camacho Matamoros, Natassia; Espinoza Aguirre, Juan Carlos; Rodríguez Sánchez, César; Rodríguez Cavallini, Evelyn (2008-03)

  To assess the prevalence of enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens among adults suffering from antibiotic-associated diarrhoea in a Costa Rican hospital, faecal samples were analysed from 104 patients by a cultivation ...

• Demonstration of antibiotic-induced tolerance development in tropical agroecosystems through physiological profiling of sediment microbial communities 

  Arias Andrés, María de Jesús; Ruepert, Clemens; García Santamaría, Fernando; Rodríguez Sánchez, César (2014-01)

  Agricultural use of antibiotics differs quantitatively and qualitatively in tropical and temperate countries. To gain insight into the nature and magnitude of physiological adaptations prompted by these drugs in microbial ...

• Phenotypic identification of over 1000 isolates of anaerobic bacteria recovered between 1999 and 2008 in a major Costa Rican hospital 

  Rodríguez Cavallini, Evelyn; Vargas, Pablo; Rodríguez Sánchez, César; Gamboa Coronado, María del Mar; Quesada Gómez, Carlos (2011-07)

  Because of limitations in infrastructure, the aetiology of infections caused by anaerobic bacteria is seldom determined in clinical laboratories of developing countries. This study reports on the identification of 1010 ...

• Neoadjuvant Metformin Added to Systemic Therapy Increases Pathological Complete Response in Breast Cancer: A Cross-sectional Study, Mexico Hospital, Costa Rica 

  Landaverde Recinos, Denis; Van der Laat M., Alicia; Ramos Esquivel, Allan (2018-02)

  Background: Metformin shows anti-proliferative effect on tumor cells. We studied the effect of metformin on achieving complete pathological response (pCR) in breast cancer patients receiving neoadjuvant therapy in a Latin ...

• Reclamando el 25 de julio como fiesta nacional: Guanacaste y la nación costarricense, 1924-1949 

  Díaz Arias, David (2009-01-01)

  Este trabajo explora cómo se inventó la fiesta del 25 de julio en Costa Rica.

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