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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Relationship of upper body fat distribution to serum glucose and lipids in a Costa Rican population
(1987)
Present models of the relation between subcutaneous fat distribution and serum biochemistries have been based largely on U.S. White populations. To determine interpopulational differences in that relation, we measured 68 ...
Low endemicity and low pathogenicity of rotaviruses among rural children in Costa Rica
(1985)
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; ...
Serum Antibody Titres to Shigella Lipopolysaccharides and Invasion Plasmid Antigens in Healthy Costa Rican and Swedish Women
(1994)
Specific serum antibody titres to defined lipopolysaccharides (LPS) of Shigella spp. and Salmonella serogroup B (BO) and Shigella invasion plasmid antigens (Ipa) were determined by enzyme immunoassays in healthy Costa Rican ...
Ooquistes de Cryptosporidium sp. (Apicomplexa: Cryptosporidiiadae) y presencia del C. parvum en niños de Costa Rica
(1996)
From 1982 to 1987 infant and preschool Costa Rican children with acute diarrhea were studied. Cryptospo ridium (Tyzzer 1912) and other agents of diarrhea were invetigated. Criptosporydium oocysts were diagnosed in Giemsa ...