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. ...

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

Epidemiologic observations during 1976-1980 in the manternity of San Juan de Dios Hospital have shown benefice, effects of the following interventions: early mother-infant stimulation, rooming-in , breast-feeding, and ...

The pretence of enteric pathogens was studied in 279 diarrheic and 198 nondiarrheic children in a rural area of Costa Rica whose childhood population are the object of a prospective multidisciplinary study. Cases end ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...