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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 ...
Utilidad de los péptidos sintéticos en estudios de estructura-función e identificación de epitopos en toxinas
(Bruno Lomonte. (2014). Utilidad de los péptidos sintéticos en estudios de estructura-función e identificación de epitopos en toxinas. Cuba: RED BIOTOX-CYTED. pp.71-80, 2014)
Los péptidos sintéticos han ganado un lugar relevante dentro de la “caja de herramientas” de la investigación biomédica actual. Las técnicas de síntesis automatizada y el costo decreciente de los procesos, unidas a mejoras ...
Influence on the growth parameters of children
(Raven Press p 85-94, 1983)
The close interactions between toxin-producing bacterial agents and the host in cases of diarrhea are reflected in several significant physiologic and nutritional alterations. The negative nutritional effects of diarrhea ...
Promotion of breast-feeding, health, and growth among hospital-born neonates, and among infants of a rural area of Costa Rica
(Diarrhea and Malnutrition. Interactions, Mechanisms, and Interventions.Editors: Lincoln C. Chen, Nevin S. Scrimshaw, 1983,177-202, 1983)
decline in the incidence of breast-feeding in many developing nations
\--as been recorded in recent years, often in conjunction with (a) rapid
changes in way of life, (b) migration from rural to urban,- centers, ...
Malnutrition and concurrent infections. Comparison of two populations with different infection rates
(Viral Diseasses in South-East Asia and the Wester Pacific, 1982)
Repetitive infections induce malnutrition and growth retardation
in children living in impoverished environments,
even if food is available. Infection precipitates severe malnutrition
in individuals already undernourished. ...
La etiología viral de las diarreas
(1976)
Durante años, muchos investigadores se
esforzaron por buscar explicaciones etiologicas
de las diarreas denominadas no-bacterianas
0 no-especificas, las cuales presentan
como casos aislados, pequefios brotes 0 ...
Breast-feeding, infections and infant outcomes: an international perspective
(1990)
Most rural mothers from Puriscal, a typical transitional population in Costa Rica, breastfeed their infants; more than one half breast-feed beyond 6 months. This situation was brought about by commencement of rooming-in ...
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 ...
Diarrhea and Malnutrition: Breastfeeding Intervention in a Transitional Population
(Holme, T., Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for International Cooperation in Science., & World Health Organization. (1981). Acute enteric infections in children: New prospects for treatment and prevention : proceedings of the third Nobel conference. Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press., 1981)
Diarrheal disease is a main cause of weight loss and growth faltering and stunting in rural children living under low socioeconomic conditions, and diarrhea is one of the most important events precipitating severe ...
La construcción del ofidismo como problema científico-social en Costa Rica: una trayectoria histórica y relacional (1881-1988)
(Redes y estilos de investigación. Ciencia, Tecnología, Innovación y Sociedad en México y Costa Rica: 115-134, 2013)
El presente capítulo persigue el objetivo de analizar la construcción del ofidismo como problema científico-social en Costa Rica, entre 1881 y 1988, a partir del estudio del contexto, los actores y la institucionalización ...