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Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in rural and urban Puriscal
(1992)
Background. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is becoming more prevalent in developing countries, particularly in the urban areas, in contrast to the CAD mortality trends observed in some industrialized nations. Methods and ...
Baja endemicidad de parásitos intestinalesen tres distritos de Puriscal
(1985)
A study of the prevalence of intestinal parasites among 44 family units (198
individuals) in three Costa Rican rural districts was conducted by the Institute
for Health Research (INISA). A very low prevalence of all ...
Estudio de Puriscal VIII. Efecto de intervenciones hospitalarias sobre la lactancia y la salud en el periodo neonatal
(Revista del Hospital Nacional de Niños 17(1y2):99-116, 1982)
Epidemiologic observations during 1976-1980 in the manternity of San Juan de Dios Hospital have shown benefice, effects of the following interventions: early mother-infant stimulation, rooming-in , breast-feeding, and ...
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; ...
Estudio de Puriscal IV. Morbilidad infecciosa del niño
(Revista del Hospital Nacional de Niños 17(1y2):49-56, 1982)
This paper presents the findings of a prospective study of the infectious morbidity
of a cohort of 114 rural infants throughout their first year of life. Results
indicate that upper respiratory infections were the most ...
Criptosporidiosis in children from some highland costa rican rural and urban areas
(The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 32(1):24-29, 1984)
This report summarizes both a prospective study of diarrhea in cohorts of
rural children in their natural ecosystem, and a vertical study of diarrheic urban children
attending a hospital emergency service. Cryptosporidium ...
Aspectos clínico-epidemiológico de la cripstosporidiosis en Costa Rica
(1985)
Cryprosporidium es un coccidio que en los últimos años ha cobrado mucha importancia por su papel en la etiología de la diarrea en diversas especies de animales y del hombre. Desde que el parásito fue descrito por Tyzzer a ...
Estudio de Puriscal V: Infección entérica en niños menores de dos años
(Revista Hospital Nacional de Ninos de Costa Rica 17(1y2):57-70, 1982)
The pretence of enteric pathogens was studied in 279 diarrheic and 198 nondiarrheic
children in a rural area of Costa Rica whose childhood population are
the object of a prospective multidisciplinary study. Cases end ...
Extinction of Vibrio choleare in acidic substrata: contaminated cabbage and lettuce treated with lime juice
(1994)
Lime juice killed Malian of Vibrio cholerae 01, El Tor, Inaba, present on cabbage and lettuce contaminated in the laboratory. The lethal effect was evident within 5 min of exposure to lime juice. No vibrios could be recovered ...