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Sex practices and knowledge about HIV/AIDS among drug users in a low-income urban community of Costa Rica
Prácticas sexuales y conocimiento sobre el VIH/ sida entre usuarios de drogas en una comunidad urbana de bajos ingresos en Costa Rica
(2014)
HIV/AIDS transmission among drug users is associated with education, sex practices and substance use. This study examined 159 drugs users’ knowledge, beliefs and sex behavior related to HIV/AIDS risk in Costa Rica. Results ...
Infectious diseases in a Nicaraguan refugee camp in Costa Rica
(1989-01)
Some Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica are in refugee camps. The types and rates of infectious diseases in the Pueblo Nuevo refugee camp were measured by examining medical records for 1985 and performing stool and blood ...
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 ...
The CDRC Principles of International Health Research
(Journal of Urban Health 82 (3)p.5-8 suplemento 4, 2005)
The Comprehensive Drug Research Center (CDRC) at the University of Miami was established in the early 1970s. Through the decades, investigators from the CDRC have worked with investigators from several countries to establish ...
Agentes virales y bacterianos en niños hospitalizados con infección respiratoria aguda: Brote epidemiológico
(1985)
Nasopharyngeal aspirates were recollected from 76 hospitalized children with
acute respiratory infection (ARI). Plastic disposable collectors provided with
a sterile feeding probe were used to obtain secretions. Aspirates ...
Influence of Orally Administered Antibiotics on Faecal pH and Volatile Fatty Acid Concentrations on Infants and Young Children
(1990)
Faecal specimens were collected from infants and children with common infections who presented to the Paediatrics Outpatient Department of the National Children's Hospital, San Jose, Costa Rica or to the Paediatrics Clinic, ...
Leishmaniasis tegumentaria americana en amerindios de Costa Rica
(1985)
Entre 1979 y 1984 se realizaron estudios clínicos y epidemiológicos en las poblaciones de Limoncito y Abrojo (Guaymi), Cabagra y Amubri (Bribri), Boruca (Boruca) y Ujarrás (Cabecar). Los estudios clínicos consistieron en ...
Clase 1 integrase ang genetic cassettes blaoxa and blatem among multidrug resistant Shigella isolates in Costa Rica
(2014)
Shigella is an important enteropathogen and the major cause of dysentery and
diarrheal disease around the world. There are no studies related to the molecular
detection of integrons among Shigella spp. isolates in Costa ...
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 ...
Prevalencia de parasitosis intestinal en niños de la comunidad de Los Cuadros, Goicoechea, Costa Rica 2003-2004
Prevalence of intestinal parasitosis in children of the community of Los Cuadros, Goicoechea, Costa Rica. 2002-2003
(Revista Costarricense de Ciencias Médicas 8 ( 1 y 2) 37-45, 2007-01-18)
Se analizó la presencia de parásitos intestinales en muestras de heces de 350 niños, de una población de 1.563 niños de hasta cinco años de edad, de la comunidad urbano marginal de Los Cuadros de Goicoechea, San José, Costa ...