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Promotion of Breast Feeding, Health, and Survival of Infants Through Hospital and Field Interventions
(Malnutrition: Determinants and consequences.New York: Liss, Inc 123-138, 1984)
Most authorities agree that the decline in the rate and duration of breast feeding in urban areas in many developing countries has been the result of urbanization and influences of Western culture. Two sequalae have been ...
Trites of class-specific anitbodies against Shigella and Salmonella lipopolysaccharide antigens in colostrums and breast milk of Costa Rican, Swedish and Vietnamese mothers
(1992)
Enzyme immunoassays (El A) were used to estimate titres of class-specific antibodies against purified and chemically defined phenol-water-extracted lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antigens of Salmonella serogroup B (BO), Shigella ...
Criterios para evaluar el estado nutricional del niño
(Revista de la Sociedad Venezolana de Gastroenterología 37(1y2):107-123, 1983)
El establecer criterios para evaluar el estado nutricional de una población general se ha tornado muy importante dada que la desnutrición energético-proteínica (DEP) constituye un grave problema de salud en países en vía ...
Rotavirus y campylobacter fetus jejuni asociados a un brote de diarrea en terneros
(Revista de Biología Tropical 32 (2) 303-304, 1984-04-27)
Rotaviruses and Campylobacter fetus jejuni are ubiquitous agents of diarrheal disease in animals and humans. Under natural conditions they do not seem to cross inter-species barriers; a zoonosis has not been documented for ...
Diarrhea associated with rotaviruses, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, Campylobacter, and other agents in costa rican children, 1976-1981
(The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 32(1), 146-153, 1983)
Rotaviruses, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coil, Salmonella, Shigella, and parasites
were investigated in outpatient diarrheic children, and in hospitalized diarrheic and nondiarrheic
children, between January 1976 and ...
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. ...
Factor aglutinante de Rotavirus en calostro en mujeres costarricenses
(Rev. Méd. Hosp. Nal. Niño113(1): 45·52, 1978, 1978)
Estudios prospectivos en una comunidad indígena de Guatemala demostraron
la baja prevalencia de enfermedades infecciosas, especialmente de los
tractos gastrointestinal y respiratorio, en niños alimentados exclusivamente
al ...
Descenso de la mortalidad por desnutrición en niños menores de cinco años en Costa Rica, 1970 y 1976
(Revista Médica del Hospital Nacional de Niños Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera: 15(1): 31-44. 1980, 1980)
En 1970 y 1976, la desnutrición como causa de muerte en niños menores de cinco años ocupó el décimo y quinto lugar, respectivamente, según las estadísticas vitales de Costa Rica. Tales cifras, revelaban un aumento de 119 ...
Breast-feeding: helping to reduce the severity of diarrhoea. Protection, energy and nutrients
(Diarrhoea Dialogue ;17:p. 4-5, 1984-05)
Leonardo Mats considers the unique role of breastfeeding in child health and survival, and possible interventions to promote it in areas where bottle-feeding is common. The exceptional properties of human milk are the: ...
Child feedings in less developed countries: induced breast feeding in a transitional society
(Pediatric Nutrition. Infant Feeding- Deficiencies - Diseases. F. Lifshitz, ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York (1982) p. 35-53, 1982)
Breast feeding is the best promoter of growth and health of infants in traditional
and transitional societies. Supplementation with semisolid and solid foods is
generally required after 3-6 months in most developing ...