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Campaña de educación sobre el SIDA, 1987
(Rev. Cost. Cienc. Méd., 9 (3), 1988, 1988)
Ya en abril de 1987, la epidemia del síndrome
de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (SIDA) en Costa
Rica, aparentaba ser similar a la de los Estados
Unidos de América y otras naciones
industrializadas. Consecuentemente, ...
Nutrition and health in societies in transition
(In: Nutrition in Transition: Proceedings of the Western Hemisphere Nutrition Congress V, Quebec 1977, edited by Philip L. White and Nancy Selvey. (Chicago) American Medical Association, 1978, pp. 351-358, 1978-02-01)
One often hears the expression that a country or society is "in transition," but there is not a clear definition of such, nor is there an effort to quantitate or characterize the level of transition undergone by a given ...
Desnutrición y privación en el niño. Observaciones en Guatemala y Costa Rica.
(Alimentación y Nutrición (FAO) 6:8-16, 1980)
Las poblaciones.tradicionales formadas de grupos tribales pequeñitos, que viven en estrecho
contacto con la naturaleza, pueden encontrarse virtualmente exentas de desnutrición
endémica gracias a la ausencia relativa ...
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. ...
Serum cholesterol, triglyceride, and high-density-lipoprotein concentrations in men with different dietary and exercise regimens in Puriscal, Costa Rica
(1986)
Mean serum cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations were higher for two
groups of sedentary middle-aged and elderly men than for a group of physically-active,
middle-aged farmers, all from rural Puriscal, Costa Rica. ...
Infection, malnutrition and growth
(1990)
The concomitant appearance of famine and pestilence has been documented in classical religious texts since the beginning of written history. But it was not until recently that the inter-relationships between infection and ...
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 ...
El diagnóstico prenatal de trastornos genéticos
(1985)
El diagnóstico prenatal de trastornos genéticos, es una de las aplicaciones clínicas de la genética más importantes en la actualidad. En los países desarrollados, se ha convertido en un eslabón fundamental de la atención ...
Cholera El Tor in Latin America, 1991-1993
(1994)
Cholera El Tor appeared in Peru in 1991 and spread rapidly to nearly all neighboring countries. The disease evolved more explosively than anything recorded since the beginning of the 7th pandemic in Sulawesi (the Celebes) ...
Fecal rotaviruses, adenoviruses, corona virus like particles, and small round viruses in a cohort of rural costa rican children
(1985)
Excretion patterns of fecal viruses were studied in a cohort of 51 rural Costa Rican children. The presence of rotavirus, adenovirus, coronavirus-like particles, and small round viruses was investigated by electron microscopy ...