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Criptosporidiosis in children from some highland costa rican rural and urban areas
(The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 32(1):24-29, 1984)
This report summarizes both a prospective study of diarrhea in cohorts of
rural children in their natural ecosystem, and a vertical study of diarrheic urban children
attending a hospital emergency service. Cryptosporidium ...
Criptosporidiosis en niños de Costa Rica: estudio transveral y longitudinal
(Revista de Biología Tropical 32(1) p.129-135, 1984-01-04)
Se estudió una población de niños lactantes y preescolares, con y sin diarrea, de las áreas urbano y rural de los altiplanos de Costa Rica, observados respectivamente en un servicio de emergencia de un hospital metropolitano ...
Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in rural and urban Puriscal
(1992)
Background. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is becoming more prevalent in developing countries, particularly in the urban areas, in contrast to the CAD mortality trends observed in some industrialized nations. Methods and ...
Baja endemicidad de parásitos intestinalesen tres distritos de Puriscal
(1985)
A study of the prevalence of intestinal parasites among 44 family units (198
individuals) in three Costa Rican rural districts was conducted by the Institute
for Health Research (INISA). A very low prevalence of all ...
Estado nutricional del niño de Puriscal durante la crisis, 1979-1984
(1985)
A prospective study on growth and development of children is underway
since 1979 in Puriscal, a rural region in the mountainous South of Costa
Rica. Beginning with gestation and following through infancy and preschool
age, ...
Diarrea por Campylobacter fetus jejuni y otros agentes infecciosos en niños del área rural de Puriscal, Costa Rica
(Revista de Biología Tropical 32(1) p.137-143, 1984-01-04)
Between September 1979 and September 1981 a field study was conducted on the etiology of
diarrhea' disease in the area of Puriscal, Costa Rica. The presence of enteric pathogens was investigated in
the stools of 267 ...
Estudio de Puriscal IV. Morbilidad infecciosa del niño
(Revista del Hospital Nacional de Niños 17(1y2):49-56, 1982)
This paper presents the findings of a prospective study of the infectious morbidity
of a cohort of 114 rural infants throughout their first year of life. Results
indicate that upper respiratory infections were the most ...
Estudio de Puriscal IX. Estado nutricional y supervivencia del niño lactante
(Revista Médica del Hospital Nacional de Niños, 17(1 y 2): 117-139, 1982)
There is no evidence of malnutrition in the Canton of Puriscal as revealed by
careful prospective study of all children born from September 19 of 1979
onwards. Several factors may account for this remarkable situation. ...
Aspectos clínico-epidemiológico de la cripstosporidiosis en Costa Rica
(1985)
Cryprosporidium es un coccidio que en los últimos años ha cobrado mucha importancia por su papel en la etiología de la diarrea en diversas especies de animales y del hombre. Desde que el parásito fue descrito por Tyzzer a ...
Low endemicity and low pathogenicity of rotaviruses among rural children in Costa Rica
(1985)
Rotaviruses were prospectively studied in 51 rural Costa Rican children from birth to two
years. Samples of feces were collected weekly over a 33-month period. Rotavirus was detected
in 45 (1.04%) of 4,317 fecal specimens; ...