• Accessibility and adherence to positive airway pressure treatment in patients with obstructive sleep apnea: a multicenter study in Latin America 

  Nogueira, J.F.; Poyares, D.; Simonelli, G.; Leiva, S.; Carrillo-Alduenda, J.L.; Bazurto, M.A.; Terán, G.; Valencia-Flores, M.; Serra, L.; de Castro, J.R.; Santiago-Ayala, V.; Pérez-Chada, D.; Franchi, M.E.; Lucchesi, L.; Tufik, S.; Bittencourt, L. (Springer Verlag, 2020)

  Purpose: Information on access and adherence to positive airway pressure (PAP) treatment is lacking at the regional level in Latin America. This study characterized access and adherence to PAP in patients with moderate-severe ...
• Toxocara Brain Infection in Pigs Is Not Associated with Visible Lesions on Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging 

  Nicoletti, Alessandra; Gomez-Puerta, Luis A.; Arroyo, Gianfranco; Bustos, Javier; Gonzalez, Armando E.; Garcia, Hector H.; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020)

  Human exposure to Toxocara spp. is very frequent, and its larvae can cross the blood-brain barrier and invade the central nervous system (CNS), causing neurotoxocariasis. We aimed to establish a neurotoxocariasis animal ...
• The meanings of water: Socio-Cultural perceptions of solar disinfected (SODIS) drinking water in Bolivia and implications for its uptake 

  Nuño Martínez, N; Muela Ribera, J.; Hausmann-Muela, S.; Cevallos, M.; Hartinger, S.M.; Christen, A.; Mäusezahl, D. (MDPI, 2020)

  Solar disinfection (SODIS) of drinking water is a cost-effective household water treatment (HWT) method. Despite its simplicity of use, evidence suggest that SODIS water uptake remains lower than implementers planned. In ...
• Pleomorphic adenoma of the hard palate with calcifications: An unusual presentation [Adenoma pleomórfico del paladar duro con calcificaciones: Una presentación inusual] 

  Obando, J.; Coronado, N.; Trevejo-Bocanegra, A. (Universidad de Concepción, 2020)

  Pleomorphic Adenoma (PA) is the most common benign salivary gland tumor. The most common sites for minor salivary gland from which PA arises are the palate followed by the lips and buccal mucosa. Calcifications are a common ...
• C57BL/6 α-1,3-Galactosyltransferase knockout mouse as an animal model for experimental Chagas disease 

  Valencia Ayala, Edward; Rodrigues da Cunha, Gisele; Araujo Azevedo, Maira; Calderon, Maritza; Jimenez, Juan; Venuto, Ana Paula; Gazzinelli, Ricardo; Ynocente Lavalle, Raúl Jesus; Vidal Riva, Angela Giovana; Hincapie, Robert; Finn, M. G.; Marques, Alexandre F. (American Chemical Society, 2020)

  The leading animal model of experimental Chagas disease, the mouse, plays a significant role in studies for vaccine development, diagnosis, and human therapies. Humans, along with Old World primates, alone among mammals, ...
• Conocimientos sobre glaucoma primario de ángulo abierto: diseño y validación de un cuestionario en pacientes hispanohablantes de Perú 

  Munayco-Guillén, F.; Noriega-Cerdán, J. F.; Cámara-Reyes, R. R.; Niño-García, R.; Mezones-Holguin, E. (Elsevier, 2020)

  OBJECTIVE: To design and validate a questionnaire on the knowledge of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in Spanish-speaking patients. METHODS: An observational study was conducted on adults with diagnosis of POAG and who ...
• Validation of a counseling guide for adherence to antiretroviral therapy using implementation science 

  Musayón-Oblitas, Flor Yesenia; Cárcamo, Cesar Paul; Gimbel, Sarah; Echevarria Zarate, Juan Ignacio; Graña Espinoza, Ana Beatriz (Universidade de São Paulo, 2020)

  Objective: To determine the contents that must be included in the usual counseling to improve the adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) of HIV patients, according to their different levels of alcohol consumption, and ...
• Economic costs analysis of uncomplicated malaria case management in the Peruvian Amazon 

  Moreno-Gutierrez, Diamantina; Rosas-Aguirre, Angel; Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro; Bilcke, Joke; Barboza, José Luis; Hayette, Marie-Pierre; Contreras-Mancilla, Juan; Aguirre, Kristhian; Gamboa, Dionicia; Rodriguez, Hugo; Speybroeck, Niko; Beutels, Philippe (BMC, 2020)

  Background: Case management is one of the principal strategies for malaria control. This study aimed to estimate the economic costs of uncomplicated malaria case management and explore the influence of health-seeking ...
• Pneumocystis primary infection in infancy: Additional French data and review of the literature 

  Nevez, Gilles; Guillaud-Saumur, Thibaud; Cros, Pierrick; Papon, Nicolas; Vallet, Sophie; Quinio, Dorothée; Minoui-Tran, Adissa; Pilorgé, Léa; de Parscau, Loïc; Sizun, Jacques; Ochoa, Theresa J.; Bustamante, Beatriz; Ponce, Carolina; Vargas, Sergio L.; Le Gal, Solène (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  Data on features of Pneumocystis primary infection in infancy are still fragmented. To study Pneumocystis primary infection, 192 infants who were monitored for acute pulmonary disease or fever over a 40-month period were ...
• Urban informal settlements as hotspots of antimicrobial resistance and the need to curb environmental transmission 

  Nadimpalli, Maya L.; Marks, Sara J.; Montealegre, Maria Camila; Gilman, Robert H.; Pajuelo, Monica J.; Saito, Mayuko; Tsukayama, Pablo; Njenga, Sammy M.; Kiiru, John; Swarthout, Jenna; Islam, Mohammad Aminul; Julian, Timothy R.; Pickering, Amy J. (Nature Research, 2020)

  Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing public health challenge that is expected to disproportionately burden lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the coming decades. Although the contributions of human and ...
• Lack of evidence for Toxocara infection in Italian myelitis patients 

  Nicoletti, Alessandra; García, Hector H.; Cicero, Calogero Edoardo; Portaro, Giacomo; Giuliano, Loretta; Patti, Francesco; Sofia, Vito; Noh, John; Handali, Sukwan; Zappia, Mario (Springer Verlag, 2020)

  Acute myelitis is a common neurological manifestation due to different causes, but in about 15-30% of cases its etiology remains unknown (idiopathic myelitis). Myelitis represents the most common manifestation of ...
• Nutritional quality of food and beverages offered in supermarkets of Lima according to the peruvian law of healthy eating 

  Meza-Hernández, Mayra; Villarreal-Zegarra, David; Saavedra-Garcia, Lorena (MDPI, 2020)

  The purpose of this paper was to determine the foods and beverages offered in the city of Lima, Peru, that would be subject to front-of-package warning labels (octagons) according to the thresholds for the two phases (6 ...
• Diagnóstico genético de pacientes con agammaglobulinemia primaria atendidos en centros peruanos de tercer nivel 

  Matos-Benavides, Edgar; García-Gomero, David; Inocente-Malpartida, Rosario; Córdova-Calderón, Wilmer; Aldave-Becerra, Juan (Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2020)

  Las agammaglobulinemias primarias (AP) resultan de alteraciones específicas en las células B, lo cual, conduce a baja producción de anticuerpos. La sospecha diagnóstica se establece con el antecedente de infecciones a ...
• Radiographic correlation of skeletal maturation using the stages of dental calcification in a Peruvian population 

  Mauricio-Vilchez, C.; Mauricio, F.; Vilchez, L.; Cadenillas, A.; Medina, J.; Mayta-Tovalino, F. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2020)

  Objective. To identify the correlation between the Baccetti method of SM (skeletal maturation) and the stages of DC (dental calcification) using the Demirjian method in the Orthodontics Service of the Universidad Peruana ...
• Draft genome sequence of yersinia ruckeri strain fmv-22, isolated from diseased rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Peru 

  Mesías, Fernando; Gerpe, Diego; Llanco, Luis; Serrano-Martínez, E.; Romalde, Jesús L. (American Society for Microbiology, 2020)

  Yersinia ruckeri is a significant and frequent bacterial fish pathogen in Peru. We report the draft genome sequence of strain FMV-22, isolated from a diseased rainbow trout, which consists of 3.84 Mb, with a G+C content ...
• The Effect of a Priest-Led Intervention on the Choice and Preference of Soda Beverages: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Catholic Parishes 

  Miranda, J. Jaime; Taype-Rondán, Alvaro; Bazalar-Palacios, Janina; Bernabé-Ortiz, Antonio; Ariely, Dan (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  BACKGROUND: Latin America ranks among the regions with the highest level of intake of sugary beverages in the world. Innovative strategies to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks are necessary. PURPOSE: Evaluate the ...
• Quantification of malaria antigens PfHRP2 and pLDH by quantitative suspension array technology in whole blood, dried blood spot and plasma 

  Martiáñez-Vendrell, Xavier; Jiménez, Alfons; Vásquez, Ana; Campillo, Ana; Incardona, Sandra; González, Raquel; Gamboa, Dionicia; Torres, Katherine; Oyibo, Wellington; Faye, Babacar; Macete, Eusebio; Menéndez, Clara; Ding, Xavier C.; Mayor, Alfredo (BMC, 2020)

  BACKGROUND: Malaria diagnostics by rapid diagnostic test (RDT) relies primarily on the qualitative detection of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 (PfHRP2) and Plasmodium spp lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH). As ...
• Resistencia a nitrofuranos en Salmonella enterica aisladas de carne para consumo humano 

  Martínez-Puchol, Sandra; Pons, María J.; Ruiz-Roldán, Lidia; Laureano-Adame, Laura; Corujo, Alfredo; Ochoa, Theresa J.; Ruiz, Joaquim (Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2020)

  The mechanisms of resistance to nitrofurans from 18 meat samples with Salmonella enterica (chicken: 15; beef: 2; pork: 1) collected in Lima (Peru) were analyzed. The isolates were serotyped and the susceptibility levels ...
• A Case-Control Study on the Association Between Intestinal Helminth Infections and Treatment Failure in Patients With Cutaneous Leishmaniasis 

  Martínez, Dalila Y.; Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro; Dujardin, Jean-Claude; Polman, Katja; Adaui, Vanessa; Boelaert, Marleen; Verdonck, Kristien (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  BACKGROUND: Endemic regions of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and intestinal helminthiasis overlap. CL treatment with systemic pentavalent antimonial drugs (Sb(5+)) fails in 10%-30% of patients. The study objective was to ...
• Increasing PrEP uptake and adherence among MSM and TW sex workers in Lima, Peru: what and whom do different patients trust? 

  Longino, August; Montano, Michalina A.; Sanchez, Hugo; Bayer, Angela; Sanchez, Jorge; Tossas-Milligan, Kathy; Duerr, Ann; Molina, Yamilé (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  In Peru, men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TW) suffer rates of HIV 50 times greater than the general population. MSM or TW sex workers (SWs) are at especially high risk. Daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis ...

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