• Varicella healthcare resource utilization in middle income countries: a pooled analysis of the multi-country MARVEL study in Latin America & Europe 

  Wolfson, Lara J.; Castillo, Maria Esther; Giglio, Norberto; Meszner, Zsofia; Molnar, Zsuzsanna; Vazquez, Mirella; Wysocki, Jacek; Altland, Alexandra; Kuter, Barbara J.; Rickard, Jenaya; Rampakakis, Emmanouil (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  Varicella is a mild and self-limited illness in children, but can result in significant healthcare resource utilization (HCRU). To quantify/contrast varicella-associated HCRU in five middle-income countries (Hungary, Poland, ...
• Virulence factor RNA transcript expression in the Leishmania Viannia subgenus: influence of species, isolate source, and Leishmania RNA virus-1 

  Kariyawasam, Ruwandi; Mukkala, Avinash N.; Lau, Rachel; Valencia, Braulio M.; Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro; Boggild, Andrea K. (BMC, 2019)

  Background: Leishmania RNA virus-1 (LRV1) is a double-stranded RNA virus identified in 20-25% of Viannia-species endemic to Latin America, and is believed to accelerate cutaneous to mucosal leishmaniasis over time. Our ...
• Variation in dental morphology and inference of continental ancestry in admixed Latin Americans 

  Delgado, Miguel; Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Adhikari, Kaustubh; Fuentes-Guajardo, Macarena; Zanolli, Clement; Gonzalez-José, Rolando; Canizales, Samuel; Bortolini, Maria-Catira; Poletti, Giovanni; Gallo, Carla; Rothhammer, Francisco; Bedoya, Gabriel; Ruiz-Linares, Andres (Wiley, 2019)

  OBJECTIVES: To investigate the variation in dental nonmetric traits and to evaluate the utility of this variation for inferring genetic ancestry proportions in a sample of admixed Latin Americans. MATERIALS AND METHODS: ...
• Values of heart rate at rest in children and adults living at different altitudes in the Andes 

  Mejia, Christian R.; Cardenas, Matlin M.; Benites-Gamboa, Dayanne; Minan-Tapia, Armando; Torres-Riveros, Gloria S.; Paz, Michael; Perez, Yomayra; Rojas-Camayo, Jose (Public Library of Science, 2019)

  INTRODUCTION: The heart rate (HR) is useful for the monitoring of patients, but almost no studies have been found which describe their variations according to different geographic locales and altitudes using centiles in ...
• Use of open mobile mapping tool to assess human mobility traceability in rural offline populations with contrasting malaria dynamics 

  Carrasco-Escobar, Gabriel; Castro, Marcia C.; Barboza, Jose Luis; Ruiz-Cabrejos, Jorge; Llanos-Cuentas, Alejandro; Vinetz, Joseph M.; Gamboa, Dionicia (PeerJ, 2019)

  Infectious disease dynamics are affected by human mobility more powerfully than previously thought, and thus reliable traceability data are essential. In rural riverine settings, lack of infrastructure and dense tree ...
• Venue-Based HIV-Testing: An Effective Screening Strategy for High-Risk Populations in Lima, Peru 

  Allan-Blitz, Lao-Tzu; Herrera, M. Christina; Calvo, Gino M.; Vargas, Silver K.; Caceres, Carlos F.; Klausner, Jeffrey D.; Konda, Kelika A. (Springer, 2019)

  Venue-based testing may improve screening efforts for HIV and syphilis, thereby reducing transmission. We offered onsite rapid dual HIV and syphilis testing at venues popular among MSM and/or transgender women in Lima, ...
• Variación del puntaje obtenido en el examen nacional de obstetricia según licenciamiento universitario, 2018 

  Moquillaza-Alcántara, Victor Hugo; Herrera-Chenett, Grecia Paola (Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2019)

  Las universidades a nivel internacional vienen generando cambios con la finalidad de garantizar una buena calidad educativa (1,2). En Perú, la Superintendencia Nacional de Educación Superior Universitaria (SUNEDU) ha ...
• Whole-Genome Sequencing for Drug Resistance Profile Prediction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis 

  Gygli, Sebastian M.; Keller, Peter M.; Ballif, Marie; Blochliger, Nicolas; Homke, Rico; Reinhard, Miriam; Loiseau, Chloe; Ritter, Claudia; Sander, Peter; Borrell, Sonia; Collantes Loo, Jimena; Avihingsanon, Anchalee; Gnokoro, Joachim; Yotebieng, Marcel; Egger, Matthias; Gagneux, Sebastien; Bottger, Erik C. (American Society for Microbiology, 2019)

  Whole-genome sequencing allows rapid detection of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. However, the availability of high-quality data linking quantitative phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) and ...
• Vulnerable populations and the right to health: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon around tuberculosis control 

  Gianella, Camila; Pesantes, M. Amalia; Ugarte-Gil, Cesar; Moore, David A. J.; Lema, Claudia (BMC, 2019)

  Background. In 2014 the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the “End TB Strategy”, setting new ambitious goals for elimination of tuberculosis (TB). In contrast with previous efforts to control TB, the new strategy ...
• Wide-field angiography for diagnosis and follow-up of Eales disease: a case series 

  Cruzado-Sanchez, Deivy; Tellez, Walter A.; Barriga-Salaverry, Guillermo; Luglio-Valdivieso, Hugo; Lujan-Najar, Silvio (Conselho Brasileiro de Oftalmologia, 2019)

  Wide-field angiography enables assessing peripheral areas with better quality and gives greater deep focus, which improves the image periphery. Some studies have proposed the usefulness of these angiographic systems in ...
• Use of a Mobile Phone App to Treat Depression Comorbid With Hypertension or Diabetes: A Pilot Study in Brazil and Peru 

  Menezes, Paulo; Quayle, Julieta; Garcia Claro, Heloisa; da Silva, Simone; Brandt, Lena R.; Diez-Canseco, Francisco; Miranda, J. Jaime; Price, LeShawndra N.; Mohr, David C.; Araya, Ricardo (JMIR Publications, 2019)

  BACKGROUND: Depression is underdiagnosed and undertreated in primary health care. When associated with chronic physical disorders, it worsens outcomes. There is a clear gap in the treatment of depression in low- and ...
• Ticagrelor Versus Clopidogrel in Patients With STEMI Treated With Fibrinolysis: TREAT Trial 

  Berwanger, Otavio; Lopes, Renato D.; Moia, Diogo D. F.; Fonseca, Francisco A.; Jiang, Lixin; Goodman, Shaun G.; Nicholls, Stephen J.; Parkhomenko, Alexander; Averkov, Oleg; Tajer, Carlos; Malaga, German; Saraiva, Jose F. K.; Guimaraes, Helio P.; de Barros E Silva, Pedro G. M.; Damiani, Lucas P.; Santos, Renato H. N.; Paisani, Denise M.; Miranda, Tamiris A.; Valeis, Nanci; Piegas, Leopoldo S.; Granger, Christopher B.; White, Harvey D.; Nicolau, Jose C. (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: The efficacy of ticagrelor in the long-term post–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)treated with fibrinolytic therapy remains uncertain. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ...
• Uncovering population structure in the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti) along the Pacific coast at South America 

  Dantas, Gisele P. M.; Oliveira, Larissa R.; Santos, Amanda M.; Flores, Mariana D.; Melo, Daniella R. de; Simeone, Alejandro; Gonzalez-Acuna, Daniel; Luna-Jorquera, Guillermo; Le Bohec, Celine; Valdes-Velasquez, Armando; Cardena, Marco; Morgante, Joao S.; Vianna, Juliana A. (Public Library of Science, 2019)

  The upwelling hypothesis has been proposed to explain reduced or lack of population structure in seabird species specialized in food resources available at cold-water upwellings. However, population genetic structure may ...
• Trypomastigote Excretory Secretory Antigen Blot Is Associated With Trypanosoma cruzi Load and Detects Congenital T cruzi Infection in Neonates, Using Anti-Shed Acute Phase Antigen Immunoglobulin M 

  Noazin, Sassan; Lee, Jessica A.; Malaga, Edith S.; Valencia Ayala, Edward; Condori, Beth J.; Roca, Cristian; Lescano, Andres G.; Bern, Caryn; Castillo, Walter; Mayta, Holger; Menduina, Maria Carmen; Verastegui, Manuela R.; Tinajeros, Freddy; Gilman, Robert H. (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  Background: Congenital Trypanosoma cruzi infection accounts for an estimated 22% of new cases of Chagas disease in Latin America. However, neonatal diagnosis is challenging, as 9-month follow-up for immunoglobulin G testing ...
• Trends and geographic pattern of stomach cancer mortality in Peru 

  Ruiz, Eloy F.; Torres-Roman, J. Smith; Servan, Sebastian A.; Martinez-Herrera, Jose F.; Arce-Huamani, Miguel A.; Carioli, Greta; La Vecchia, Carlo (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Stomach cancer mortality rates in South America are among the highest in the world. In Peru, stomach cancer has the highest absolute number of cancer deaths in both sexes combined. We estimated mortality rates ...
• Towards comprehensive sexuality education: a comparative analysis of the policy environment surrounding school-based sexuality education in Ghana, Peru, Kenya and Guatemala 

  Panchaud, C.; Keogh, S.C.; Stillman, M.; Awusabo-Asare, K.; Motta, A.; Sidze, E.; Monzón, A.S. (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  The successful implementation of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programmes in schools depends on the development and implementation of strong policy in support of CSE. This paper offers a comparative analysis of ...
• To Really Know the Disease: Creating a Participatory Community Education Workshop about Taenia solium Focused on Physical, Economic, and Epidemiologic Evidence 

  Beam, Michelle; Spencer, Angela G.; Atto, Ruth; Camizan, Roberto; Vilchez, Percy; Muro, Claudio; Gamboa, Ricardo; Pray, Ian; Garvey, Brian; Fernandez, Lauralee; Garcia, Hector H.; O'Neal, Seth E.; Cysticercosis Working Group In Peru (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2019)

  Cysticercosis, caused by Taenia solium, is a neglected disease that causes preventable epilepsy. We conducted an experiential learning workshop in northern Peru to educate community members on T. solium transmission and ...
• Tropical Eastern Pacific Amphoriscidae Dendy, 1892 (Porifera: Calcarea: Calcaronea: Leucosolenida) from the Peruvian coast 

  Cóndor-Luján, B.; Azevedo, F.; Hajdu, E.; Hooker, Y.; Willenz, P.; Klautau, M. (Springer, 2019)

  Two new species of Amphoriscidae Dendy, 1892 (Porifera Grant, 1836: Calcarea Bowerbank, 1862: Leucosolenida Hartman, 1958) from the northern coast of Peru, Tropical Eastern Pacific, are described integrating molecules and ...
• Tilapia lake virus (TiLV) from Peru is genetically close to the Israeli isolates 

  Pulido, L.L.H.; Mora, C.M.; Hung, A.L.; Dong, H.T.; Senapin, S. (Elsevier, 2019)

  Tilapia is reportedly affected by two RNA viruses; tilapia lake virus (TiLV) and nervous necrosis virus (NNV), both causing up to 90% mortality in acute infections. Random investigation was performed with samples from 4 ...
• Tuberculosis Genetic Epidemiology: A Latin American Perspective 

  Woodman, Marc; Haeusler, Ilsa L.; Grandjean, Louis (MDPI, 2019)

  There are an estimated 10 million new cases of tuberculosis worldwide annually, with 282,000 new or relapsed cases each year reported from the Americas. With improvements in genome sequencing technology, it is now possible ...

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