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Merino, Veronika ; Westgard, Christopher M. ; Bayer, Angela M. ; García, Patricia J. | BMC | 2019-01-25T15:28:04ZBACKGROUND: The parasitic disease, cystic echinococcosis (CE), is prevalent in low-income, livestock-raising communities and 2000 new people will be diagnosed this year in South America alone. The disease usually passes from livestock to dogs to[...]![]()
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Abstract Background New technologies facilitate the enhancement of a wide range of human dispositions, capacities, or abilities. While it is argued that we need to set limits to human enhancement, it is unclear where we should find resources to [...]![]()
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de la Fuente Herreruela, Diego ; Monnappa, Ajay K. ; Muñoz Úbeda, Mónica ; Morallón Piña, Aarón ; Enciso Rodríguez, Eduardo ; Sánchez Martín, Luis ; Giusti, Fabrice ; Natale, Paolo ; López-Montero, Iván | BMC | 2019Background: The design of efcient drug delivery vectors requires versatile formulations able to simultaneously direct a multitude of molecular targets and to bypass the endosomal recycling pathway of cells. Liposomal-based vectors need the decor[...]![]()
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Cobos Muñoz, Daniel ; Hansen, Kristian Schultz ; Terris-Prestholt, Fern ; Cianci, Fiona ; Perez-Lu, Jose Enrique ; Lama, Aldo ; García, Patricia J. | BMC | 2019-02-06T14:52:17ZBACKGROUND: Prepaid contributory systems are increasingly being recognized as key mechanisms in achieving universal health coverage in low and middle-income countries. Peru created the Seguro Integral de Salud (SIS) to increase health service us[...]![]()
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Felisbino-Mendes, M.S. ; Matozinhos, F.P. ; Miranda, J.J. ; Villamor, E. ; Velasquez-Melendez, G. | BMC | 2020-06-10T18:11:31ZBackground: Obesity is highly related to negative reproductive health outcomes, but its relationship with spontaneous abortion and stillbirth remains to be understood, especially in transitioning economies. This study aimed to examine the relati[...]![]()
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Rosas-Aguirre, Angel ; Guzmán-Guzmán, Mitchel ; Gamboa, Dionicia ; Chuquiyauri, Raúl ; Ramirez, Roberson ; Manrique, Paulo ; Carrasco-Escobar, Gabriel ; Puemape, Carmen ; Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro ; Vinetz, Joseph M. | BMC | 2019-01-25T15:28:05ZBACKGROUND: Understanding the dynamics of malaria transmission in diverse endemic settings is key for designing and implementing locally adapted and sustainable control and elimination strategies. A parasitological and epidemiological survey was[...]![]()
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Campos, Melina ; Conn, Jan E. ; Alonso, Diego Peres ; Vinetz, Joseph M. ; Emerson, Kevin J. ; Ribolla, Paulo Eduardo Martins | BMC | 2019-01-25T15:28:05ZBACKGROUND: In recent decades, throughout the Amazon Basin, landscape modification contributing to profound ecological change has proceeded at an unprecedented rate. Deforestation that accompanies human activities can significantly change aspect[...]![]()
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Grajeda, Laura M. ; Ivanescu, Andrada ; Saito, Mayuko ; Crainiceanu, Ciprian ; Jaganath, Devan ; Gilman, Robert H. ; Crabtree, Jean E. ; Kelleher, Dermott ; Cabrera, Lilia ; Cama, Vitaliano ; Checkley, William | BMC | 2019-02-06T14:45:34ZBACKGROUND: Childhood growth is a cornerstone of pediatric research. Statistical models need to consider individual trajectories to adequately describe growth outcomes. Specifically, well-defined longitudinal models are essential to characteriz[...]![]()
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Rosas-Aguirre, Angel ; Erhart, Annette ; Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro ; Branch, Oralee ; Berkvens, Dirk ; Abatih, Emmanuel ; Lambert, Philippe ; Frasso, Gianluca ; Rodriguez, Hugo ; Gamboa, Dionicia ; Sihuincha, Moises ; Rosanas-Urgell, Anna ; D'Alessandro, Umberto ; Speybroeck, Niko | BMC | 2019-02-06T14:53:08ZBACKGROUND: Focal screening and treatment (FSAT) of malaria infections has recently been introduced in Peru to overcome the inherent limitations of passive case detection (PCD) and further decrease the malaria burden. Here, we used a relatively[...]![]()
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Del Valle-Mendoza, Juana ; Rojas-Jaimes, Jesus ; Vásquez-Achaya, Fernando ; Aguilar-Luis, Miguel Angel ; Correa-Nuñez, Germán ; Silva-Caso, Wilmer ; Lescano, Andres G. ; Song, Xiuping ; Liu, Qiyong ; Li, Dongmei | BMC | 2018-12-03T17:02:46ZOBJECTIVE: To study the presence of Bartonella bacilliformis in ticks collected from two wild mammals in Madre de Dios, Peru. RESULTS: A total of 110 ticks were collected. Among the 43 Amblyomma spp. extracted from the 3 Tapirus terrestris only [...]![]()
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Nigeria is home to more people living with HIV than any other country in the world, except South Africa and India – where an estimated 2.9 million [1.7 million – 4.2 million] people were living with the virus[...]
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Sheen, Patricia ; Requena, David ; Gushiken, Eduardo ; Gilman, Robert H. ; Antiparra, Ricardo ; Lucero, Bryan ; Lizárraga, Pilar ; Cieza, Basilio ; Roncal, Elisa ; Grandjean, Louis ; Pain, Arnab ; McNerney, Ruth ; Clark, Taane G. ; Moore, David ; Zimic, Mirko | BMC | 2019-01-25T15:02:14ZBACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health problem and drug resistance compromises the efforts to control this disease. Pyrazinamide (PZA) is an important drug used in both first and second line treatment regimes. However, its comple[...]![]()
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Herranz, María ; Leander, Brian S. ; Pardos Martínez, Fernando ; Boyle, Michael J. | BMC | 2019-04-08Background The Scalidophora (Kinorhyncha, Loricifera and Priapulida) have an important phylogenetic position as early branching ecdysozoans, yet the architecture of their nervous organ systems is notably underinvestigated. Without such informati[...]![]()
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Guevara, Govinda ; Castillo López, María ; Alonso, Sergio ; Perera González, Julián ; Navarro LLorens, Juana María | BMC | 2019Background: Rhodococcus ruber strain Chol-4, a strain isolated from a sewage sludge sample, is able to grow in minimal medium supplemented with several compounds, showing a broad catabolic capacity. We have previously determined its genome seque[...]![]()
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Castro, Juan C. ; Maddox, J. Dylan ; Cobos, Marianela ; Requena, David ; Zimic, Mirko ; Bombarely, Aureliano ; Iman, Sixto A. ; Cerdeira, Luis A. ; Medina, Andersson E. | BMC | 2019-02-06T14:52:14ZBackground. Myrciaria dubia is an Amazonian fruit shrub that produces numerous bioactive phytochemicals, but is best known by its high L-ascorbic acid (AsA) content in fruits. Pronounced variation in AsA content has been observed both within and[...]