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Distribution of serotypes of human rotavirus in different populations
(1992-04)
Serotyping is a useful tool to study the cpidemiologic characteristics of rotaviruses in large populations and
to assess the need for a vaccine to protect against all strains. By using an enzyme immunoassay with
seroty ...
Malnutrition and infection in a typical rural Guatemalan Village: Lessons for the planning of preventive measures
(2010-09-01)
A long-term prospective study of fetal and postnatal growth and possible influenceson growth was initiated in
1963in a Guatemalan village.A high proportion of the infants were of low birth weight and they were more at
risk ...
Criptosporidiose em crianҫas de 1 a 2 anos de idade, com diarréia aguda em Belém, Pará, Brasil
(1989-01)
Two hundred and one samples obtained from 61 children were examined for Cryptosporidium infection during a period of 12 months. One hundred fifteen specimens were collected during diarrhoea episodes and the remaining 86 ...
Sociocultural factors in the control and prevention of parasitic diseases
(Reviews of infectious diseases 4(4):871-879, 1982-07)
Control and prevention of parasitic disease depends on an adequate knowledge of interactions
among factors such as human behavior, the environment, and the life cycles of
parasites. Sociocultural factors in large part ...
Cryptosporidium diarrhea in costarican children
(1986)
Coccidian parasites of the genus Cryptosporidium cause acute diarrhea in many vertebrates, including man. Recent reviews on the subject [1-5] were stimulated by demonstration of a chronic, debilitating and generally fatal ...
Rehidratación oral en Costa Rica
(Revista de la Sociedad Venezolana de Gastroenterología 36(1):81-84, 1982-03)
Alrededor de 1963 reinaba una anarquía en los hospitales de Costa Rica en cuanto a la rehidrataci6n intravenosa para tratar la diarrea severa. Las normas existentes fueron revisadas entonces por el Dr. Rodrigo Loría Cortés ...
Diarrhoeal diseases---how Costa Rica won
(Revista World Health Forum 2(1):141-142. 1981, 1981)
The progress made by Costa Rica in overcoming diarrhoeal diseases may be instructive to health authorities in other countries.
During the early pan of the century, Costa Rica; hie most developing nations, had a very high ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...