Prospective studies in Mayan Indian children living in their natural setting were carried out from 1964 through 1974; observations began at birth and extended at least throughout the first three years of life. Adequate ...

Even today acute diarrheal disease is thought of by many laymen as well as by some medical professionals in developing countries as being a syndrome of alimentary origin. Despite recognition of shigellosis, cholera, ...

Este trabajo describe aspectos psicosociales que resaltan de la interacción entre los proveedores de atencion en salud (el personal de salud) y las personas afectadas por el virus de la inmunodeficiencia human (HIV). La ...

Breast-feeding constitutes the most reliable means of increasing infant survival, as demonstrated by the successful perpetuation of humankind through millions of years of exclusive dependence on human milk. Breast milk ...

Acute diarrhea' disease was once attributed to "indigestion." Although shigellosis, cholera, salmonellosis, giardiasis, and amebiasis have long been recognized as distinct clinical entities, it was not too long ago ...

Correlations between hair zinc and age, sex, weight, and length were determined on 138 boys and girls aged 6 months to 4 years from a low socioeconomic region of rural Costa Rica. Zinc deficiency, as assessed by hair zinc ...

The predominant etiology of diarrhea in the general population of underdeveloped countries is infection by viruses and bacteria. Studies in rural areas clearly suggest an infectious cause. For example, diarrhea initially ...

Se ha avanzado mucho en la conceptualización de la epidemiología de la diarrea a partir de la creencia popular de que el síndrome era causado por "Indigestión" alimentaria. A pesar de que la shigelosis, salmonelosis, ...

El SIDA continúa atrayendo la atención de un amplio sector de la academia científica mundial, lo cual se traduce en la separación por parte de numerosos científicos, de sus intereses originales. El resultado ha sido que ...

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 ...