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The importance of breast-feeding for optimal child health and well-being
(Clinical nutrition, Manual of clinical nutrition; 3 (1) (Suppl 3): 28-33, 1984-01)
Breast-fed infants can thrive even under unhygienic conditions in areas of extreme poverty. The anti-infectious properties of human milk account for the very high resistance of the nursing infant to infection in general ...
The evolution of diarrhoeal diseases and malnutrition in Costa Rica: The role of interventions
(Assignment Child (61-62) p.195-224, 1983)
Costa Rica has an infant mortality rate of 17.7%, one of the lowest for developing countries. While it is noted that it is difficult to demonstrate the contributions of specific interventions in accounting for the drastic ...
As seen from national levels: Developing world
(1978)
The grim.realities involved with the solution of such world problems as
.' food, energy and pollution make it difficult to address such issues with
'vhptimism (Meadows et al. 1972; Mesarovic and Peste! 1974). On the ...
Análisis electroforético del Ácido Ribonucleico de rotavirus de Costa Rica: implicaciones epidemiológicas
(Revista Médica del Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera: 15(1), 21-30, 1980)
Actualmente los rotavirus constituyen los principales agentes etiológicos de
las diarreas. Fueron descubiertos mediante la microscopía electrónica en 1973
(1, 5, 6) y por su morfología se denominaron partículas virales ...
Bacterias multirresistentes a los antibióticos aisladas de niños hospitalizados de "alto riesgo"
(Revista Médica del Hospital Nacioanl de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz, 1978)
Between January and September, 1977, 43 strains of Klebslella-Enterobac-ter, 17 of Pseudomonas and 6 of Escherlchla coli —all resistant to several drugs—were isolated from 66 children hospitalized in the National Children's ...
S-IgA cholera toxin and rotavirus antibody in human colostrum
(Acta Paediar Scand 68(3): 161-164. 1979, 1979)
S-IgA cholera toxin and rotavirus antibody inhuman colostrum. Acta Paediatr Scand, 68: 161, 1979.—S-1gA antibodies against cholera toxin and rotavirus were assayed in 43 colostral samples by means of an enzyme-linked ...
Infectious agents in acute and chronic diarrhea of chilhood
(Chronic diarrea a in children: Raven Press p. 237 - 252, 1984)
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, ...
Anti-rotavirus antibody in human colostrum
(The Lancet 311(8054), 7 January 1978, Pages 39–40. Originally published as Volume 1, Issue 8054, 1978)
During investigation of the epidemiology of human rotavirus infection in Costa Rica, the anti-human rotavirus capacity of colostrum was studied. We were looking for an explanation for the relatively low incidence of acute ...
Enteritis y colitis infecciosa del hombre
(Adel Microbiol Enf Infecc 1(1), 1982)
Most diarrheas affecting man in developing nations have an: infectious origin, and
are transmitted from person to person or indirectly thorough water, food and utensils contaminated with the agents. About two thirds of ...
Oral rehydration and maintenance of children with rotavirus and bacterial diarrhoeas
Rehydratation mr vole orale et maintien de l'equilibre chez les jeunes enfants atteints de diarrhee a rotavirus ou a bacteries
(Bull World Health Organ. 1979; 57(3): 453–459, 1979)
To determine whether oral glucose-electrolytes therapy could be adapted with equal success to infants with diarrhoea of bacterial and viral etiologies, oral glucose-electrolytes therapy was studied in a setting where all ...