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Aya Pastrana, Nathaly ; Lazo-Porras, Maria ; Miranda, J. Jaime ; Beran, David ; Suggs, L. Suzanne | Public Library of Science | 2020-07-14T00:00:55ZBACKGROUND: Social marketing is an approach to behavior change that contributes to disease prevention and control. This study aimed to understand how social marketing interventions have addressed neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). It examined t[...]![]()
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Castillo-Neyra, Ricardo ; Toledo, Amparo M. ; Arevalo-Nieto, Claudia ; MacDonald, Hannelore ; De la Puente-Leon, Micaela ; Naquira-Velarde, Cesar ; Paz-Soldan, Valerie A. ; Buttenheim, Alison M. ; Levy, Michael Z. | Public Library of Science | 2019-12-06T21:04:42ZTo control and prevent rabies in Latin America, mass dog vaccination campaigns (MDVC) are implemented mainly through fixed-location vaccination points: owners have to bring their dogs to the vaccination points where they receive the vaccination [...]![]()
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Castillo-Neyra, Ricardo ; Toledo, Amparo M. ; Arevalo-Nieto, Claudia ; MacDonald, Hannelore ; De la Puente-Leon, Micaela ; Naquira-Velarde, Cesar ; Paz-Soldan, Valerie A. ; Buttenheim, Alison M. ; Levy, Michael Z. | Public Library of Science | 2019-08-08T15:23:47ZTo control and prevent rabies in Latin America, mass dog vaccination campaigns (MDVC) are implemented mainly through fixed-location vaccination points: owners have to bring their dogs to the vaccination points where they receive the vaccination [...]![]()
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Quinto-Sanchez, Mirsha ; Cintas, Celia ; Silva de Cerqueira, Caio Cesar ; Ramallo, Virginia ; Acuna-Alonzo, Victor ; Adhikari, Kaustubh ; Castillo, Lucia ; Gomez-Valdes, Jorge ; Everardo, Paola ; de Avila, Francisco ; Hunemeier, Tabita ; Jaramillo, Claudia ; Arias, Williams ; Fuentes, Macarena ; Gallo, Carla ; Poletti, Giovani ; Schuler-Faccini, Lavinia ; Bortolini, Maria Catira ; Canizales-Quinteros, Samuel ; Rothhammer, Francisco ; Bedoya, Gabriel ; Rosique, Javier ; Ruiz-Linares, Andrés ; González-José, Rolando | Public Library of Science | 2019-01-25T16:03:20ZThe expression of facial asymmetries has been recurrently related with poverty and/or disadvantaged socioeconomic status. Departing from the developmental instability theory, previous approaches attempted to test the statistical relationship bet[...]![]()
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Pray, Ian W. ; Ayvar, Viterbo ; Gamboa, Ricardo ; Muro, Claudio ; Moyano, Luz M. ; Benavides, Victor ; Flecker, Robert H. ; Garcia, Hector H. ; O'Neal, Seth E. | Public Library of Science | 2019-01-25T16:03:20ZBACKGROUND: Taenia solium, a parasite that affects humans and pigs, is the leading cause of preventable epilepsy in the developing world. Geographic hotspots of pigs testing positive for serologic markers of T. solium exposure have been observed[...]![]()
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Boussau, Bastien ; Walton, Zaak ; Delgado Sáez, Juan Antonio ; Collantes, Francisco ; Beani, Laura ; Stewart, Isaac J. ; Cameron, Sydney A. ; Whitfield, James B. ; Johnston, J. Spencer ; Holland, Peter W.H. ; Bachtrog, Doris ; Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney ; Huelsenbeck, John P. | Public Library of Science | 2014-10-01Insect phylogeny has recently been the focus of renewed interest as advances in sequencing techniques make it possible to rapidly generate large amounts of genomic or transcriptomic data for a species of interest. However, large numbers of marke[...]![]()
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Lorenzo Bermejo, Justo ; Boekstegers, Felix ; González Silos, Rosa ; Marcelain, Katherine ; Baez Benavides, Pablo ; Barahona Ponce, Carol ; Müller, Bettina ; Ferreccio, Catterina ; Koshiol, Jill ; Fischer, Christine ; Peil, Barbara ; Sinsheimer, Janet ; Fuentes Guajardo, Macarena ; Barajas, Olga ; González-José, Rolando ; Bedoya, Gabriel ; Catira Bortolini, Maria ; Canizales-Quinteros, Samuel ; Gallo, Carla ; Ruiz Linares, Andres ; Rothhammer, Francisco | Public Library of Science | 2019-01-25T16:03:21ZLatin Americans are highly heterogeneous regarding the type of Native American ancestry. Consideration of specific associations with common diseases may lead to substantial advances in unraveling of disease etiology and disease prevention. Here [...]![]()
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Corzo-Leon, Dora E. ; Alvarado-Matute, Tito ; Colombo, Arnaldo L. ; Cornejo-Juarez, Patricia ; Cortes, Jorge ; Echevarria, Juan I. ; Guzman-Blanco, Manuel ; Macias, Alejandro E. ; Nucci, Marcio ; Ostrosky-Zeichner, Luis ; Ponce-de-Leon, Alfredo ; Queiroz-Telles, Flavio ; Santolaya, Maria E. ; Thompson-Moya, Luis ; Tiraboschi, Iris N. ; Zurita, Jeannete ; Sifuentes-Osornio, Jose | Public Library of Science | 2020-06-10T18:12:18ZINTRODUCTION: Larger populations at risk, broader use of antibiotics and longer hospital stays have impacted on the incidence of Candida sp. bloodstream infections (CBSI). OBJECTIVE: To determine clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of pat[...]![]()
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Halsey, Eric-S. ; Baldeviano, G. Christian ; Edgel, Kimberly-A. ; Vilcarromero, Stalin ; Sihuincha, Moises ; Lescano, Andres-G. | Public Library of Science | 2019-02-06T14:45:35ZBACKGROUND: Malaria and dengue are two of the most common vector-borne diseases in the world, but co-infection is rarely described, and immunologic comparisons of co-infection with mono-infection are lacking. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: [...]![]()
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Debacq, Gabrielle ; Moyano, Luz M. ; Garcia, Hector H. ; Boumediene, Farid ; Marin, Benoit ; Ngoungou, Edgard B. ; Preux, Pierre-Marie | Public Library of Science | 2019-01-25T16:03:21ZBACKGROUND: We reviewed studies that analyzed cysticercosis (CC), neurocysticercosis (NCC) and epilepsy across Latin America, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, to estimate the odds ratio and etiologic fraction of epilepsy due to CC in tropical region[...]![]()
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Watts, Nathaniel S. ; Pajuelo, Monica ; Clark, Taryn ; Loader, Maria-Cristina I. ; Verastegui, Manuela R. ; Sterling, Charles ; Friedland, Jon S. ; Garcia, Hector H. ; Gilman, Robert H. | Public Library of Science | 2020-06-10T18:12:20ZBACKGROUND: Neurocysticercosis is a leading cause of seizures and epilepsy in most of the world, and it occurs when Taenia solium larval cysts infect the central nervous system. T. solium tapeworm infection is endemic in much of Peru, but there[...]![]()
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Martinez, D. Y. ; Verdonck, K. ; Kaye, P. M. ; Adaui, Vanessa ; Polman, K. ; Llanos-Cuentas, A. ; Dujardin, J. ; Boelaert, M. | Public Library of Science | 2018-03-22T23:38:49ZInfectious diseases are often studied one by one, but people can have more than one infection at the same time. This is likely to happen when different microorganisms are linked to specific geographical regions or living conditions. In this pape[...]![]()
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Chambergo-Michilot, Diego ; Tellez, Walter Andree ; Becerra-Chauca, Naysha ; Zafra-Tanaka, Jessica Hanae ; Taype-Rondan, Álvaro | Public Library of Science | 2020-07-14T00:01:03ZBackground: Excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation increases the risk of skin cancer and other conditions. SMS text reminders may be a useful tool to improve sun protection habits due to its massive reach, low cost, and accessibility. Objec[...]![]()
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Marín Aguacil, Arturo ; Tejero Franco, Héctor ; Nuño Sanz, Juan Carlos ; Montero Carnerero, Francisco | Public Library of Science | 2013-12We study the evolution of a finite size population formed by mutationally isolated lineages of error-prone replicators in a two-peak fitness landscape. Computer simulations are performed to gain a stochastic description of the system dynamics. M[...]![]()
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Limaye, Neha P. ; Blas, Magaly M. ; Alva, Isaac E. ; Carcamo, Cesar P. ; García, Patricia J. | Public Library of Science | 2018-11-30T23:41:29ZThe Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon faces many obstacles to health care delivery. The majority of the population is river-bound and lives below the poverty line, with some of the worst health indicators in Peru. To overcome these barriers a[...]