• Building capacity for advances in tuberculosis research; proceedings of the third RePORT international meeting 

  Van der Heijden, Yuri F.; Abdullah, Fareed; Andrade, Bruno B.; Andrews, Jason R.; Christopher, Devasahayam J.; Croda, Julio; Ewing, Heather; Haas, David W.; Hatherill, Mark; Horsburgh, C. Robert; Mave, Vidya; Nakaya, Helder I.; Rolla, Valeria; Srinivasan, Sudha; Sugiyono, Retna Indah; Ugarte-Gil, Cesar; Hamilton, Carol (Elsevier, 2018)

  RePORT International is a global network of research sites in India, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa, China, and the Philippines dedicated to collaborative tuberculosis research in the context of HIV. A standardized research ...
• Accuracy of diabetes screening methods used for people with tuberculosis, Indonesia, Peru, Romania, South Africa 

  Grint, Daniel; Alisjhabana, Bachti; Ugarte-Gil, Cesar; Riza, Anca-Leila; Walzl, Gerhard; Pearson, Fiona; Ruslami, Rovina; Moore, David A. J.; Ioana, Mihai; McAllister, Susan; Ronacher, Katharina; Koeseomadinata, Raspati C.; Kerry-Barnard, Sarah R.; Coronel, Jorge; Malherbe, Stephanus T.; Dockrell, Hazel M.; Hill, Philip C.; Van Crevel, Reinout; Critchley, Julia A. (World Health Organization, 2018)

  Objective To evaluate the performance of diagnostic tools for diabetes mellitus, including laboratory methods and clinical risk scores, in newly-diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis patients from four middle-income countries. ...
• Multiple non-climatic drivers of food insecurity reinforce climate change maladaptation trajectories among Peruvian Indigenous Shawi in the Amazon 

  Zavaleta, Carol; Berrang-Ford, Lea; Ford, James; Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro; Cárcamo, César; Ross, Nancy A.; Lancha, Guillermo; Sherman, Mya; Harper, Sherilee L.; Edge, Victoria; Lwasa, Shuaib; Namanya, Didacus B. (Public Library of Science, 2018)

  Background Climate change is affecting food systems globally, with implications for food security, nutrition, and the health of human populations. There are limited data characterizing the current and future consequences ...
• Anemia in infancy is associated with alterations in systemic metabolism and microbial structure and function in a sex-specific manner: an observational study 

  McClorry, Shannon; Zavaleta, Nelly; Llanos, Alejandro; Casapía, Martin; Lönnerdal, Bo; Slupsky, Carolyn M. (Oxford University Press, 2018)

  Background Anemia is a term that describes low hemoglobin concentrations and can result from micronutrient deficiencies, infection, or low birth weight. Early-life anemia, particularly iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) is ...
• Disease characteristics and treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus attending government health services in Indonesia, Peru, Romania and South Africa 

  Soetedjo, Nanny N. M.; McAllister, Susan M.; Ugarte‐Gil, Cesar; Firanescu, Adela G.; Ronacher, Katharina; Alisjahbana, Bachti; Costache, Anca L.; Zubiate, Carlos; Malherbe, Stephanus T.; Koesoemadinata, Raspati C.; Laurence, Yoko V.; Pearson, Fiona; Kerry‐Barnard, Sarah; Ruslami, Rovina; Moore, David A. J.; Ioana, Mihai; Kleynhans, Leanie; Permana, Hikmat; Hill, Philip C.; Mota, Maria; Walzl, Gerhard; Dockrell, Hazel M.; Critchley, Julia A.; Crevel, Reinout van (Wiley Online Library, 2018)

  Objective To describe the characteristics and management of Diabetes mellitus (DM) patients from low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Methods We systematically characterised consecutive DM patients attending public ...
• Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Fasciola hepatica Infection Among Children from 26 Communities of the Cusco Region of Peru 

  Cabada, Miguel M.; Morales, Maria Luisa; Webb, Camille M.; Yang, Logan; Bravenec, Chelsey A.; Lopez, Martha; Bascope, Ruben; Jr, A. Clinton White; Gotuzzo, Eduardo (The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2018)

  Fasciola hepatica is the most widely distributed trematode-affecting humans. The Andes Mountains are highly endemic for fascioliasis. We report results of a cross-sectional study evaluating the epidemiology of Fasciola ...
• Virulence Factor RNA Transcript Expression in Cultured Clinical Isolates of Leishmania Does Not Vary by Host Age 

  Mukkala, A.; Kariyawasam, R.; Lau, R.; Valencia, B.; Llanos-Cuentas, A.; Boggild, A.K. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Virulence factors (VF) are endogenous molecules that often enhance the pathogenicity of an organism. The role of host age on the immunopathogenesis of leishmaniasis is poorly understood. Despite pediatric ...
• Prevalence and Association of Leishmania RNA Virus-1 (LRV-1) in Severe and Non-Severe Phenotypes of American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis from Peru 

  Kariyawasam, R.; Lau, R.; Valencia, B.; Llanos-Cuentas, A.; Boggild, A.K. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) comprises a discrete set of clinical presentations of leishmaniasis endemic to Latin America and particularly Peru. Leishmania RNA virus-1 (LRV-1) is a double stranded ...
• Influence of Leishmania RNA Virus-1 (LRV-1) on Virulence Factor RNA Transcript Expression of Leishmania Viannia spp 

  Kariyawasam, R.; Mukkala, A.; Lau, R.; Valencia, B.; Llanos-Cuentas, A.; Boggild, A.K. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Leishmania RNA Virus-1 (LRV-1) is a double stranded RNA virus identified in strains of the Viannia subgenus in Latin America. Virulence factors (VFs) are gene products that augment pathogenicity of an organism, ...
• Spectrum of Bacterial Pathogens in Inflammatory and Non-Inflammatory Ulcers of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis 

  Kariyawasam, R.; Gascon, B.; Mah, J.; Lau, R.; Valencia, B.; Llanos-Cuentas, A.; Boggild, A.K. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background : Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) may present with an inflammatory phenotype, characterized by pain, erythema, and purulent exudate, which is typically treated with antibiotics prior to anti-Leishmania treatment. ...
• 1446 Tuberculosis as an occupational disease: knowledge, attitudes and practices among healthcare workers of a public hospital in lima-peru 

  Albino, Sandra; Bazo-Alvarez, Juan Carlos; Bosio, Davide; Gamarra, Maria; Samalvides, Frine (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)

  Abstract Introduction Peru is one of the countries with the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the Americas with an incidence of 119 × 100 000 people in the last year. The Stop Tuberculosis Partnership recommends ...
• Antimicrobial susceptibility in blood and urine samples at a third level national hospital in Lima-Peru 2011-2014 

  Chincha, O.; Yeh, M.; Samalvides, F. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: The antimicrobial resistance map is a tool that allows to know the characteristics of microorganisms, its realization is necessary because the microorganisms are in constant change as a result of the exposure ...
• Neurocysticercosis in Pregnancy 

  Webb, Camille; Rosa, Mauricio La; Olson, Gayle; Cabada, Miguel (Thieme Open, 2018)

  The normal physiologic changes during pregnancy contribute to nutritional, metabolic, and immunologic adjustments, which can have an impact on the presentation of several diseases. New onset seizures during pregnancy and ...
• IFN-γ Response Is Associated to Time Exposure Among Asymptomatic Immune Responders That Visited American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis Endemic Areas in Peru 

  Best, Ivan; Privat-Maldonado, Angela; Cruz, María; Zimic, Mirko; Bras-Gonçalves, Rachel; Lemesre, Jean-Loup; Arévalo, Jorge (Frontiers Media, 2018)

  Clinical manifestations of American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (ATL) include cutaneous (CL) and mucous forms (ML); however, there are asymptomatic individuals who despite being infected do not present any clinical manifestations. ...
• Point-of-Care Molecular Diagnosis of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Intercurrent Fungal and Mycobacterial Infections 

  Valencia, B.; Lau, R.; Kariyawasam, R.; Shao, E.; Llanos-Cuentas, A.; Boggild, A.K. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Due to the highly toxic nature of standard drugs used in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), and overlapping clinical features of CL with ulcers due to fungal and mycobacterial infections, confirmatory ...
• Early Retention in Care Neither Mediates Nor Modifies the Effect of Sex and Sexual Mode of HIV Acquisition on HIV Survival in the Americas 

  Coelho, Lara; Rebeiro, Peter F.; Castilho, Jessica L.; Caro-Vega, Yanink; Mejia, Fernando A.; Cesar, Carina; Cortes, Claudia P.; Padgett, Denis; McGowan, Catherine C.; Veloso, Valdiléa G.; Sterling, Timothy R.; Grinsztejn, Beatriz; Shepherd, Bryan E.; Luz, Paula M. (Mary Ann Liebert, 2018)

  Early retention in care, sex, and sexual mode of HIV acquisition has been associated with mortality risk among persons living with HIV (PLWH). We assessed whether early retention in care mediates or modifies the association ...
• Yellow fever vaccine and risk of developing serious adverse events: a systematic review 

  Porudominsky, Ruben; Gotuzzo, Eduardo H. (Pan American Health Organization, 2018)

  Objective. To evaluate contraindications and precautions for the yellow fever vaccine (YFV) in risk populations. Methods. A literature review was conducted by searching PubMed for “yellow fever vaccine” and “adverse events” ...
• The Cefazolin Inoculum Effect Is Associated With Increased Mortality in Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia 

  Miller, William R.; Seas, Carlos; Carvajal, Lina P.; Diaz, Lorena; Echeverri, Aura M.; Ferro, Carolina; Rios, Rafael; Porras, Paola; Luna, Carlos; Gotuzzo, Eduardo; Munita, Jose M.; Nannini, Esteban; Carcamo, Cesar; Reyes, Jinnethe; Arias, Cesar A. (Oxford University Press, 2018)

  Background: Recent studies have favored the use of cefazolin over nafcillin for the treatment of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia. The clinical influence of the cefazolin inoculum effect ...
• Epidemiology, clinical features, and outcome of HTLV-1–related ATLL in an area of prevalence in the United States 

  Malpica, Luis; Pimentel, Agustin; Reis, Isildinha M.; Gotuzzo, Eduardo; Lekakis, Lazaros; Komanduri, Krishna; Harrington, Thomas; Barber, Glen N.; Ramos, Juan C. (The American Society of Hematology, 2018)

  Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) is a fatal disease caused by human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1). We retrospectively analyzed 195 patients with ATLL (lymphomatous n = 96, acute n = 80, unfavorable chronic n ...
• Fulminant streptococcal toxic shock syndrome 

  Zavala, S.; Arias, M.; Legua, P. (Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2018)

  We present a case of a previously healthy 37-year-old male who developed fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, and hypovolaemia. Within 5.5 h he presented with tachycardia, tachypnoea, became hypotensive and displayed a ...

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