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Epidemiology of rotaviruses in a cohort of 45 Guatemalan Mayan Indian children observed from birth to the age of three years
(The Journal of Infectious Diseases 148(3) 452-461, 1983-09)
Chort of 45 children was observed from birth to three years of age in their natural ecosystem to determine patterns of infection, morbidity, and growth. Data from enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay analysis for rotavirus ...
Conocimientos sobre el SIDA en un tugurio y un campamento de refugiados de Costa Rica
(1988)
Se realizó una encuesta a mediados de 1988 en
dos localidades con población marginada: un
campamento de refugiados nicaragüenses y un
tugurio periurbano. En ambas localidades se
seleccionó una muestra representativa ...
Cryptosporidium and other protozoa in diarrheal disease in less developed countries
(1986)
At least 18 species of intestinal protozoa in 14 different genera have been identified in the feces or intestinal juices of man (Table 1). Of these ten species are regarded as potential pathogens and can induce diarrheal ...
The nature of the nutrition problem
(1978)
This paper attempts to conceptualize malnutrition
from an ecological point of view. One definition of
malnutrition, a term that in Spanish can be rendered
by either 'desnutricion' or 'malnutricion', is:
a pathologic ...
Investigación del INISA sobre la diarrea aguda del niño, estudios hospitalarios y comunitarios en Costa Rica 1976-1984
(1985)
Actualmente es posible detectar agentes entéricos potencialmente patógenos en más del 70% de los casos con diarrea aguda que requieren atención médica. Los rotavirus son responsables de casi la mitad de los casos, seguidos ...
Interactions of malnutrition and infection
(Arab World Printing House. In: Practical approaches to combat malnutrition with special reference to mothers and children. Cairo, Egypt. May 25-29, 1977. N.S. Scrimshaw y M. Gabr (editors). Ministry of Health, Cairo, Egypt, Arab World Printing House, Egypt, p.134-144, 1979., 1979-05)
It is impossible and impracticable to separate health problems from their environmental causes. Thus, a quick glance at the present world distribution of famine and of severe and chronic malnutrition reveals a concentration ...
Estudio de Puriscal I. Bases filosóficas, desarrollo y estado actual de la investigación actual de la investigación aplicada en nutrición
(Revista del Hospital Nacional de Niños 17(1y2):1-20, 1982)
No obstante los importantes avances que Costa Rica ha logrado en el campo de la salud materno—infantil, esta sigue siendo prioritaria pare la investigación científica. Al consolidarse la profilaxis de las enfermedades ...
Relación del bajo peso al nacer con el desarrollo psicomotor del niño de Puriscal
(1985)
This is a study of psycho-motor development of 84 eighteen months old
children, living in the districts of Barbacoas, Grifo Alto and Candelarita in the
canton of Puriscal. Gesell and Casati-Lezine tests were employed to ...
Bacterias multirresistentes a los antibióticos aisladas de niños hospitalizados de "alto riesgo"
(Revista Médica del Hospital Nacioanl de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz, 1978)
Between January and September, 1977, 43 strains of Klebslella-Enterobac-ter, 17 of Pseudomonas and 6 of Escherlchla coli —all resistant to several drugs—were isolated from 66 children hospitalized in the National Children's ...
Estudios evolutivos y biomédicos en dos poblaciones indígenas Guaymies de Costa Rica
(Vínculos 7(1), 1-7. 1981, 1981)
A biomedical study which included genetic, demographic, nutritional and health aspects was
carried out in two amerindian Guayrni populations, Abrojo and Limoncito, located in Southeastern
Costa Rica. Both groups originated ...