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  • Understanding transmission and control of the pork tapeworm with CystiAgent: A spatially explicit agent-based model 
    Pray, I.W.; Wakeland, W.; Pan, W.; Lambert, W.E.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Gonzalez Zariquiey, Armando Emiliano; O'Neal, Seth E. (BioMed Central, 2020)
    Background: The pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, is a serious public health problem in rural low-resource areas of Latin America, Africa and Asia, where the associated conditions of nuerocysticercosis (NCC) and porcine ...
  • Understanding Weather and Hospital Admissions Patterns to Inform Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in the Healthcare Sector in Uganda 
    Bishop-Williams, Katherine E.; Berrang-Ford, Lea; Sargeant, Jan M.; Pearl, David L.; Lwasa, Shuaib; Namanya, Didacus Bambaiha; Edge, Victoria L.; Cunsolo, Ashlee; IHACC Research Team; Bwindi Community Hospital; Huang, Yi; Ford, James; Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet; Harper, Sherilee L. (MDPI, 2018)
    Background: Season and weather are associated with many health outcomes, which can influence hospital admission rates. We examined associations between hospital admissions (all diagnoses) and local meteorological parameters ...
  • Undertreatment of people with major depressive disorder in 21 countries 
    Thornicroft, Graham; Chatterji, Somnath; Evans-Lacko, Sara; Gruber, Michael; Sampson, Nancy; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Al-Hamzawi, Ali; Alonso, Jordi; Andrade, Laura; Borges, Guilherme; Bruffaerts, Ronny; Bunting, Brendan; Caldas de Almeida, Jose Miguel; Florescu, Silvia; de Girolamo, Giovanni; Gureje, Oye; Haro, Josep Maria; He, Yanling; Hinkov, Hristo; Karam, Elie; Kawakami, Norito; Lee, Sing; Navarro-Mateu, Fernando; Piazza Ferrand, Marina Julia; Posada-Villa, Jose; Torres de Galvis, Yolanda; Kessler, Ronald C. (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
    BACKGROUND: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of disability worldwide. AIMS: To examine the: (a) 12-month prevalence of DSM-IV MDD; (b) proportion aware that they have a problem needing treatment and who ...
  • Underutilization and Quality Gaps in Blood Culture Processing in Public Hospitals of Peru. 
    Krapp, Fiorella; Rondon, Claudia; Amaro, Catherine; Barco-Yaipén, Evelyn; Valera-Krumdieck, María; Vásquez, Rubén; Briones, Alexander; Casapia, Martin; Burgos, Antonio; López, Favio Sarmiento; Vilcapoma, Pierina; Sipión, Roberto Díaz; Villegas-Chiroque, Miguel; Castillo, Kelly; Pino-Dueñas, Jimena; Cuadros, Edwin Cuaresma; Alpaca-Salvador, Hugo; Campana, René; Córdova, Teresa Peralta; Chavez, Elizett Sierra; Ventura, Carla Aguado; Peeters, Marjan; Jacobs, Jan; García Apac, Coralith Marlinda (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2021)
    Correct processing of blood cultures may impact individual patient management, antibiotic stewardship, and scaling up of antimicrobial resistance surveillance. To assess the quality of blood culture processing, we conducted ...
  • An unforgettable event: a qualitative study of the 1997-98 El Nino in northern Peru 
    Bayer, Angela M.; Danysh, Heather E.; Garvich, Mijail; Gonzalvez, Guillermo; Checkley, William; Alvarez, Maria; Gilman, Robert Hugh (Wiley, 2014)
    During the 1997-98 El Nino, Tumbes, Peru received 16 times the annual average rainfall. This study explores how Tumbes residents perceived the impact of the El Nino event on basic necessities, transport, health care, jobs ...
  • Unique Characteristics of Epilepsy Development in Neurocysticercosis 
    Herrick, Jesica A.; Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo; Clapham, Philip; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Loeb, Jeffrey A.; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020)
    The parasitic helminth infection neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common cause of adult-acquired epilepsy in the world. Despite the serious consequences of epilepsy due to this infection, an in-depth review of the ...
  • Universal definition of loss to follow-up in HIV treatment programs: A statistical analysis of 111 facilities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America 
    Chi, B.H.; Yiannoutsos, C.T.; Westfall, A.O.; Newman, J.E.; Zhou, J.; Cesar, C.; Brinkhof, M.W.G.; Mwango, A.; Balestre, E.; Carriquiry, G.; Sirisanthana, T.; Mukumbi, H.; Martin, J.N.; Grimsrud, A.; Bacon, M.; Thiebaut, R. (Public Library of Science, 2011)
    Background: Although patient attrition is recognized as a threat to the long-term success of antiretroviral therapy programs worldwide, there is no universal definition for classifying patients as lost to follow-up (LTFU). ...
  • Universal health coverage and intersectoral action for health: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition 
    Jamison, Dean T.; Alwan, Ala; Mock, Charles N.; Nugent, Rachel; Watkins, David; Adeyi, Olusoji; Anand, Shuchi; Atun, Rifat; Bertozzi, Stefano; Bhutta, Zulfiqar; Binagwaho, Agnes; Black, Robert; Blecher, Mark; Bloom, Barry R.; Brouwer, Elizabeth; Bundy, Donald A. P.; Chisholm, Dan; Cieza, Alarcos; Cullen, Mark; Danforth, Kristen; de Silva, Nilanthi; Debas, Haile T.; Donkor, Peter; Dua, Tarun; Fleming, Kenneth A.; Gallivan, Mark; Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet; Gawande, Atul; Gaziano, Thomas; Gelband, Hellen; Glass, Roger; Glassman, Amanda; Gray, Glenda; Habte, Demissie; Holmes, King K.; Horton, Susan; Hutton, Guy; Jha, Prabhat; Knaul, Felicia M.; Kobusingye, Olive; Krakauer, Eric L.; Kruk, Margaret E.; Lachmann, Peter; Laxminarayan, Ramanan; Levin, Carol; Looi, Lai Meng; Madhav, Nita; Mahmoud, Adel; Mbanya, Jean Claude; Measham, Anthony; Medina-Mora, María Elena; Medlin, Carol; Mills, Anne; Mills, Jody-Anne; Montoya, Jaime; Norheim, Ole; Olson, Zachary; Omokhodion, Folashade; Oppenheim, Ben; Ord, Toby; Patel, Vikram; Patton, George C.; Peabody, John; Prabhakaran, Dorairaj; Qi, Jinyuan; Reynolds, Teri; Ruacan, Sevket; Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy; Sepúlveda, Jaime; Skolnik, Richard; Smith, Kirk R.; Temmerman, Marleen; Tollman, Stephen; Verguet, Stéphane; Walker, Damian G.; Walker, Neff; Wu, Yangfeng; Zhao, Kun (Elsevier, 2018)
    The World Bank is publishing nine volumes of Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition (DCP3) between 2015 and 2018. Volume 9, Improving Health and Reducing Poverty, summarises the main messages from all the volumes and ...
  • Universal Recommendations for the Management of Acute Diarrhea in Nonmalnourished Children 
    Guarino, Alfredo; Lo Vecchio, Andrea; Dias, Jorge Amil; Berkley, James A.; Boey, Chris; Bruzzese, Dario; Cohen, Mitchell B.; Cruchet, Sylvia; Liguoro, Ilaria; Salazar-Lindo, Eduardo; Sandhu, Bhupinder; Sherman, Philip M.; Shimizu, Toshiaki (Wiley, 2018)
    OBJECTIVE: Despite a substantial consistency in recommendations for the management of children with acute gastroenteritis (AGE), a high variability in clinical practice and a high rate of inappropriate medical interventions ...
  • Unmet Diagnostic and Therapeutic Opportunities for COPD in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. 
    Florman, Katia Eh; Siddharthan, Trishul; Pollard, Suzanne L.; Alupo, Patricia; Barber, Julie A.; Chandyo, Ram K.; Flores-Flores, Oscar; Kirenga, Bruce; Mendes, Renata Gonçalves; Miranda, J. Jaime; Mohan, Sakshi; Ricciardi, Federico; Rykiel, Natalie A.; Sharma, Arun K.; Wosu, Adaeze C.; Checkley, William; Hurst, John R. (American Thoracic Society, 2023)
    RATIONALE: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a prevalent and burdensome condition in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Challenges to better care include more effective diagnosis, and access to ...
  • Unresolved COVID Controversies: 'Normal science' and potential non-scientific influences 
    Caceres Palacios, Carlos Fernando (Taylor and Francis, 2022)
    The COVID-19 health crisis has so far involved enormous consequences in human pain, suffering and death. While biomedical science responded early, its response has been marked by several controversies between what appeared ...
  • Unstable Malaria Transmission in the Southern Peruvian Amazon and Its Association with Gold Mining, Madre de Dios, 2001-2012 
    Sanchez, Juan F.; Carnero, Andres M.; Rivera, Esteban; Rosales, Luis A.; Baldeviano, G. Christian; Asencios, Jorge L.; Edgel, Kimberly A.; Vinetz, Joseph Michael; Lescano Guevara, Andres Guillermo (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017)
    The reemergence of malaria in the last decade in Madre de Dios, southern Peruvian Amazon basin, was accompanied by ecological, political, and socioeconomic changes related to the proliferation of illegal gold mining. We ...
  • A Unusual Case of Abdominal Discomfort in a Diabetic Patient: A Case Study 
    Vasquez-Rios, George; Vasquez Elera, Luis; de los Rios, Raul; Bravo, Eduar; Pinto, Jose L. (Springer, 2016)
    Aim: Type 2 Diabetes mellitus is a disease that may compromise several organs and systems, including the host defenses. Infectious causes of abdominal pain need to be studied. Methods: A 52 year-old compliant diabetic woman ...
  • An Unusual Case of Anaphylaxis after Blunt Abdominal Trauma 
    Villanueva-Forero, Miguel; Soria-Moncada, Jorge; Cornejo-Leon, Marilhia; Soto-Arquinigo, Leslie; Arauco-Brown, Renzo (Elsevier, 2016)
    BACKGROUND: Due to current human migratory patterns, emergency physicians in developed countries are facing emergent clinical presentations of neglected tropical diseases with increasing frequency. In those situations, the ...
  • An unusual case of Candida parapsilosis endocarditis of the native tricuspid valve secondary to a tunneled dialysis catheter. 
    Zacarías Mendoza, Nathalie Victoria; Zevallos Goyzueta, Andrea Verónica; Wu Chen, Alexander; Robles Velarde, Víctor Justo (Instituto Nacional Cardiovascular, 2023)
    Candida endocarditis is a severe disease associated with high mortality rates. Candida parapsilosis is frequently identified as the causative pathogen in intravenous drug users and is commonly associated with nosocomial ...
  • An Unusual Case of Seronegative Cryoglobulinemic Glomerulonephritis with Dominant Organized IgA Deposits Associated with Staphylococcal Infection: Casual or Causal Relationship? 
    De La Flor Merino, José C.; Apaza, Jacqueline; Díaz, Francisco; Sandoval, Edna; Valga, Francisco; Villa, Daniel; Marschall, Alexander; Abascal, María Luisa; Rivas, Andrea; Cieza Terrones, Michael Javier (Karger, 2023)
    INTRODUCTION: Cryoglobulinemia refers to the presence of cryoglobulins (CGs) in the serum, encompassing a group of diseases caused by the type of circulating GC. Cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis (CryoGN) is the principal ...
  • An Unusual Cause of Severe Respiratory Distress in a Young Patient with Appendicitis: A Case Study 
    Vasquez-Rios, George; Calixto-Aguilar, Lesly; Pajuelo, Richard; Alarcon, Wilder (Springer, 2016)
    Aim: To describe an infrequent cause of respiratory distress following appendicitis. Methods: A 13-year old male patient presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain, vomiting and fever for the last 4 days. ...
  • Unusual complications at the recipient site following periodontal plastic surgery procedures: a systematic review 
    Alarcón, Marco Antonio; Moses, Ana Ximena; Palma, Daniella; García-Roncero, H.; de Carvalho, P.F.M. (Springer, 2022)
    Objective: To identify and describe unusual soft tissue complications of periodontal plastic surgery procedures at the recipient site after periodontal grafts. Materials and methods: Two independent reviewers performed a ...
  • Unveiling drug-tolerant and persister-like cells in Leishmania braziliensis lines derived from patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis. 
    Jara, Marlene; Arévalo Zelada, Jorge Luis; Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro; den Broeck, Frederik Van; Domagalska, Malgorzata Anna; Dujardin, Jean-Claude (Frontiers, 2023)
    INTRODUCTION: Resistance against anti-Leishmania drugs (DR) has been studied for years, giving important insights into long-term adaptations of these parasites to drugs, through genetic modifications. However, microorganisms ...
  • Unveiling the Burden of Miscoding and Misclassification in Stroke Mortality: Analysis of Multiple Cause-of-Death Data in Mexico. 
    Cahuana Hurtado, Lucero; Gómez-Dantés, Héctor; De la Cruz-Góngora, Vanessa; Chiquete, Erwin; Cantú-Brito, Carlos (Karger, 2023)
    BACKGROUND: The prevalence of risk factors for cerebrovascular diseases in Mexico is increasing although stroke mortality declined from 1990 to 2010, without meaningful changes afterward. While improving access to adequate ...

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