The importance of infectious disease and its role in the shaping of the history of mankind has been recognized since Biblical times. Pestilences were recorded in many classical books, while most religions developed ...

Many factors contribute independently or jointly to the cause and pathogenesis of low birth weight. Attempts to identify these factors in a given population, however, are usually unsuccessful, and conclusions ...

The present paper interpets the significance of anthropometric data of newborns from a typical Indian village of Guatemala and from the general population of Costa Rica. A good correlation exists between a deficient fetal ...

Data from a prospective study of a Guatemalan village population revealed an exceedingly high force of infection which may affect nutrition and growth from gestation onward. Maternal morbidity was higher and fetal antigenic ...

EI oscuro panorama que se presenta ante la posibilidad de lograr soIucionesa los problemas mundiales de alimentos, energia y agotamiento y contaminaci6n del ambients influye cualquier intento de discutir y abo rda r ...

There is evidence that fetal antigenic stimulation and intrauterine infection is much more frequent in developing rural populations than in industrialized societies. A similar contrast is observed for postnatal intestinal ...

Durante años, muchos investigadores se esforzaron por buscar explicaciones etiologicas de las diarreas denominadas no-bacterianas 0 no-especificas, las cuales presentan como casos aislados, pequefios brotes 0 ...

In the past. we thought there were differences hetween tropica! and temperate zones in the etiology of intestinal diseases. Recent observations indicate that such differences do not exist. Infectious agents are ubiquitous. ...

This paper attempts to conceptualize malnutrition from an ecological point of view. One definition of malnutrition, a term that in Spanish can be rendered by either 'desnutricion' or 'malnutricion', is: a pathologic ...

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, ...