• Uso medicinal de la marihuana: la discusión pendiente - Réplica 

  Nizama Valladolid, Martín (Colegio Médico del Perú, 2017)

  El artículo sobre la desmitificación del uso medicinal de la marihuana presenta una clara posición contra su legalización con argumentos médicos y sociales que lo avalan, se fundamenta en la experticia del autor y siendo ...
• Ejes y líneas de investigación en el ámbito de la Educación Superior en el Perú: hacia una priorización concertada de una agenda de investigación 

  Huayanay-Espinoza, Carlos A.; Sánchez-Orellana, Ricardo; Flores-Cordova, Gianfranco; Béjar, Manuel; Alburqueque Chávez, Omar; Uribe-Díaz, Sebastián; Bringas-Delgado, Reynaldo; Pérez-Romero, Facundo; Zapata Gotelli, Verónica; Huicho, Luis (Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, 2019)

  Como parte de los esfuerzos de priorización de líneas de investigación en el ámbito de la educación superior en el Perú, el Proyecto Mejoramiento de la Calidad de la Educación Superior (Procalidad) convocó a especialistas ...
• Características de patentes de dispositivos para rehabilitación física registradas en los Estados Unidos 

  Nieto-Gutierrez, Wendy; Tellez, Walter Andree; Pacheco, Niels Victor; Aguirre-Tipismana, Luis; Zevallos-Morales, Alejandro; Taype-Rondan, Alvaro (Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, 2019)

  Introducción: La rehabilitación física puede verse beneficiada con el uso de dispositivos, los cuales en su mayoría suelen ser patentados. La oficina de patentes y marcas de los Estados Unidos (USPTO) es una de las oficinas ...
• Producción de electricidad empleando Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans a partir de iones tiosulfato y férrico 

  Jibaja, Sandro; Oyola, Vanessa; Berastain, Arturo; Ramos, Daniel; Roncal, Elisa; Medina, Juan Carlos; Untiveros, Graciela; Sheen, Patricia; Hurtado, Jasmín (Sociedad Química del Perú, 2019)

  Los microorganismos acidófilos son predominantes en los ecosistemas de aguas ácidas de minas, encontrándose en abundancia la especie Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. El objetivo del estudio fue producir electricidad en ...
• High frequency of the exoU+/exoS+ genotype associated with multidrug-resistant "high-risk clones" of Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates from Peruvian hospitals 

  Horna, Gertrudis; Amaro, Catherine; Palacios, Aida; Guerra, Humberto; Ruiz, Joaquim (Nature Research, 2019)

  The type III secretion system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important virulence factor contributing to the cytotoxicity and the invasion process of this microorganism. The current study aimed to determine the presence ...
• Brazil's first free-mating laboratory colony of Nyssorhynchus darlingi 

  Araujo, Maisa da Silva; Andrade, Alice Oliveira; Costa dos Santos, Najara Akira; Pereira, Dheprimelio Batista; Costa, Glaucilene da Silva; Medeiros de Paulo, Paula Frassinetti; Tong Rios, Carlos; Moreno, Marta; Pereira-da-Silva, Luiz Hidelbrando; de Medeiros, Jansen Fernandes (Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2019)

  INTRODUCTION: The lack of highly-productive Nyssorhynchus darlingi laboratory colonies limits some studies. We report the first well-established laboratory colony of Ny. darlingi in Brazil. METHODS: Mosquitoes were collected ...
• Mucormicosis gástrica en un niño inmunocompetente 

  Flores Chavez, Ana; Rodriguez Temoche, Lourdes; Alarcon Rojas, Karen; Pereyra Lopez, Sonia (Sociedad de Gastroenterología del Perú, 2019)

  La mucormicosis es una infección oportunista rara usualmente fatal, que afecta mayoritariamente a personas con déficit inmunológico o patologías asociadas. Hay pocos reportes de esta enfermedad en pacientes sin los factores ...
• Parasitic Infections of the Nervous System 

  Garcia, Hector H.; Nath, Avindra; Del Brutto, Oscar H. (Georg Thieme Verlag, 2019)

  Parasitic infections of the central nervous system are much more common than suspected, although most infections are asymptomatic. For example, parasites like the ubiquitous protozoa Toxoplasma gondii or the nematode larvae ...
• 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, 2019)

  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 ...
• Measuring the quality of sexuality education implementation at the school level in low- and middle-income countries 

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

  Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is a key component of efforts to improve sexual and reproductive outcomes for young people. While many governments have established policies and curricula for CSE, there are no ...
• Lack of evidence for Toxocara infection in Italian myelitis patients 

  Nicoletti, Alessandra; Garcia, Hector H.; Cicero, Calogero Edoardo; Portaro, Giacomo; Giuliano, Loretta; Patti, Francesco; Sofia, Vito; Noh, John; Handali, Sukwan; Zappia, Mario (Springer Verlag, 2019)

  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 ...
• Situación mundial de la anemia en gestantes 

  Vasquez-Velasquez, Cinthya; Gonzales, Gustavo F. (Aula Médica Ediciones, 2019)

  La anemia está definida como una condición en la cual se observa un número deficiente de glóbulos rojos y, por consiguiente, una alteración en el trasporte de oxígeno. Esto imposibilita al ser vivo cumplir sus funciones ...
• Higher risk of malaria transmission outdoors than indoors by Nyssorhynchus darlingi in riverine communities in the Peruvian Amazon 

  Saavedra, Marlon P.; Conn, Jan E.; Alava, Freddy; Carrasco-Escobar, Gabriel; Prussing, Catharine; Bickersmith, Sara A.; Sangama, Jorge L.; Fernandez-Minope, Carlos; Guzman, Mitchel; Tong, Carlos; Valderrama, Carlos; Vinetz, Joseph M.; Gamboa, Dionicia; Moreno, Marta (BMC, 2019)

  BACKGROUND: Malaria remains an important public health problem in Peru where incidence has been increasing since 2011. Of over 55,000 cases reported in 2017, Plasmodium vivax was the predominant species (76%), with P. ...
• Detection of human Metapneumovirus infection in children under 18 years old hospitalized in Lima-Peru 

  Del Valle-Mendoza, Juana; Orellana-Peralta, Fiorella; Del Valle, Luis J.; Verne, Eduardo; Ugarte, Claudia; Weilg, Claudia; Silva-Caso, Wilmer; Valverde-Ezeta, Jorge; Carrillo-Ng, Hugo; Pena-Tuesta, Isaac; Palomares-Reyes, Carlos; Cornejo-Tapia, Angela; Aguilar-Luis, Miguel Angel (PeerJ, 2019)

  Background: Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) is a negative single-stranded RNA virus. Infection by hMPV mainly affects the pediatric population and can cause upper or lower respiratory tract pathologies which can develop life ...
• Socio-spatial heterogeneity in participation in mass dog rabies vaccination campaigns, Arequipa, Peru 

  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)

  To 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 ...
• Seasonal patterns in risk factors for Taenia solium transmission: A GPS tracking study of pigs and open human defecation in northern Peru 

  Pray, Ian W.; Muro, Claudio; Gamboa, Ricardo; Vilchez, Percy; Wakeland, Wayne; Pan, William; Lambert, William E.; Garcia, Hector H.; O'Neal, Seth E. (BMC, 2019)

  BACKGROUND: Taenia solium (cysticercosis) is a parasitic cestode that is endemic in rural populations where open defecation is common and free-roaming pigs have access to human feces. The purpose of this study was to ...
• Cancer screening risk literacy of physicians in training: An experimental study 

  Petrova, Dafina; Mas, Guiliana; Navarrete, Gorka; Rodriguez, Tania Tello; Ortiz, Pedro J.; Garcia-Retamero, Rocio (Public Library of Science, 2019)

  We investigated what factors may foster or hinder physicians' cancer screening risk literacy-specifically the ability to understand evidence regarding screening effectiveness and make evidence-based recommendations to ...
• Comparison of fatty acid synthase and cyclooxygenase-2 immunoexpression in embryonal, benign, and malignant odontogenic tissues 

  Sánchez-Romero, C.; Mosqueda-Taylor, A.; Delgado-Azañero, W.; Paes de Almedia, O.; Bologna-Molina, R. (Elsevier, 2019)

  Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze the immunohistochemical expression of fatty acid synthase (FASN) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in tooth germ (TG), ameloblastoma (AM), ameloblastic carcinoma (AC), ameloblastic ...
• The overlooked significance of plasma volume for successful adaptation to high altitude in Sherpa and Andean natives 

  Stembridge, Mike; Williams, Alexandra M.; Gasho, Christopher; Dawkins, Tony G.; Drane, Aimee; Villafuerte, Francisco C.; Levine, Benjamin D.; Shave, Rob; Ainslie, Philip N. (National Academy of Sciences, 2019)

  In contrast to Andean natives, high-altitude Tibetans present with a lower hemoglobin concentration that correlates with reproductive success and exercise capacity. Decades of physiological and genomic research have assumed ...
• Latin American and Spanish-speaking perspectives on the challenges of global psychiatry 

  Alarcon, Renato D.; Lolas, Fernando; Mari, Jair J.; Lazaro, Jose; Baca-Baldomero, Enrique (Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 2019)

  The multi-faceted phenomenon known as globalization has a particular impact on the conceptual and practical development of mental health disciplines in general, and psychiatry in particular, across different world regions. ...

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