Artículos: Recent submissions

  • Gender inequality, women's empowerment, and adolescent birth rates in 363 Latin American cities. 
    Braverman-Bronstein, Ariela; Ortigoza, Ana F; Vidaña-Pérez, Desiree; Barrientos-Gutiérrez, Tonatiuh; Baldovino-Chiquillo, Laura; Bilal, Usama; Friche, Amelia Augusta de Lima; Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco; Maslowsky, Julie; Vives V, Alejandra; Diez Roux, Ana V (Elsevier, 2023)
    Background: Gender inequality is high in Latin America (LA). Empowering girls and young women and reducing gender gaps has been proposed as a pathway to reduce adolescent pregnancy. We investigated the associations of urban ...
  • Manejo de la anticoncepción y preñez no deseada de canes criados en asentamientos humanos del distrito de Ventanilla, Perú 
    Ponte, Kyara; Leon Cordova, Daphne Jhoanna; Falcon Perez, Nestor Gerardo (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2022)
    The aim of this study was to describe the perceptions and practices of dog owners about the management of contraception and unwanted pregnancy of dogs raised in human settlements in the district of Ventanilla, Callao-Peru. ...
  • Benign Bone Lesions Found in Childhood. 
    Gonzalez, Marcos Roberto; Subhawong, Ty K; Pretell-Mazzini, Juan (Elsevier, 2023)
    Benign bone tumors are a wide variety of usually asymptomatic neoplasms, which in most cases are diagnosed due to secondary causes. As such, their real incidence is unknown. In the majority of cases, plain radiographs are ...
  • Kaposi's sarcoma in people living with HIV/AIDS in a public referral hospital in Peru 
    Mendoza Mori, Lucia Maryelena; Valenzuela Medina, Jim Brian; Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo; Bravo Puccio, Francisco Gerardo; Mejia Cordero, Fernando Alonso; Mohanna Barrenechea, Salim; González Lagos, Elsa Violeta (Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2022)
    Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is the most frequent cancer in people living with HIV. Research on this condition is scarce in the region, therefore, this article aimed to describe the demographic, clinical and therapeutic characteristics ...
  • Percepciones de aceptabilidad y reticencia a las vacunas contra la COVID-19 en el Perú 
    Tenorio Mucha, Janeth Marilyn; Portocarrero Mazanett, Jill Katherine; Busta-Flores, Patricia; Pesantes Villa, María Amalia; Lazo Porras, María de los Ángeles (Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2022)
    Objectives. To explore factors that influence the acceptance or reluctance to COVID-19 vaccination using qualitative methods. Materials and methods. Descriptive qualitative study conducted between April and June 2021. A ...
  • Perfiles hematológicos en pacientes infectados con malaria en un área endémica del Perú 
    Pinedo-Cancino, Viviana; Arista, Katty M.; Valle-Campos, Andree; Saavedra-Langer, Rafael; Roca, Cristian; Ramos-Rincon, Jose-Manuel; Calderón Sánchez, Maritza Mercedes; Branch, Oralee H. (Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2022)
    Objectives. To evaluate the variation of hematological profiles of patients infected with uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax (Pv) and P. falciparum (Pf) malaria before, during and after treatment in a population of the Loreto ...
  • Cross-cultural adaptation of four instruments to measure stigma towards people with mental illness and substance use problems among primary care professionals in Chile 
    Videla, C. P.; Sapag, J. C.; Klabunde, R.; Velasco, P. R.; Anriquez, S.; Alvarez, M. A.; Mascayano, F.; Bravo, P.; Sena, B. F.; Escalona, A. J.; Bobbili, S. J.; Corrigan, P. W.; Bustamante Chavez, Ines Veronica; Poblete, F.; Alvarado, R. (Sage Publications, 2022)
    Stigma toward people with mental illness and substance use problems is a significant global concern, and prevents people with these conditions from accessing treatment, particularly in primary health care (PHC) settings. ...
  • Real-world outcomes of anti-EGFR therapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer EGFR mutated in Peru 
    Galvez Nino, M.; Ruiz, R.; Roque, K.; Coanqui, O.; Valdivieso, N.; Olivera, M.; Ganti, A.K.; Más López, Luis Alberto (Wiley, 2023)
    Background: Despite the advances in the management of advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the access to genetic profiling and target therapies remains a challenge in Latin America, even in countries with a higher ...
  • Health and Environmental Co-Benefits of City Urban Form in Latin America: An Ecological Study 
    Avila-Palencia, I.; Sánchez, B. N.; Rodríguez, D. A.; Perez-Ferrer, C.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Gouveia, N.; Bilal, U.; Useche, A. F.; Wilches-Mogollon, M. A.; Moore, K.; Sarmiento, O. L.; Diez Roux, A. V. (MDPI, 2022)
    We investigated the association of urban landscape profiles with health and environmental outcomes, and whether those profiles are linked to environmental and health co-benefits. In this ecological study, we used data from ...
  • Non-affective psychosis in traditional Andean culture 
    Ayvar, M. U.; Garrafa, R. S.; Escobar, J. I.; Gallo López-Aliaga, Carla Maria; Vaisberg Wollach, Abraham Jaime; Poletti, Giovanni; de Erausquin, G. A. (Sage Publications, 2022)
    We report a case of non-affective psychosis with a brief discussion of the phenomenology and its characterization and treatment by traditional Inka healers and eventually by Western-trained psychiatrists. Traditional Inka ...
  • Evaluation of three alternatives cost-effective culture media for Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection and drug susceptibility determination using the microscopic observation drug susceptibility (MODS) assay 
    Rodriguez, Jhojailith; Alcántara, R.; Rodríguez, Joseline; Vargas, J.; Roncal, Elisa; Antiparra, Ricardo; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Grandjean, Louis; Moore, David Alexander James; Zimic-Peralta, Mirko Juan; Sheen Cortavarria, Patricia (Elsevier, 2022)
    Tuberculosis phenotypic detection assays are commonly used in low-resource countries. Therefore, reliable detection methods are crucial for early diagnosis and treatment. The microscopic observation drug susceptibility ...
  • Production of endoglin-specific heavy chain antibody fragments (VHHs) microarrays for whole-cell SPR imaging 
    Quintana, M.; Espinoza, José R.; Roupioz, Y. (Elsevier, 2022)
    Cell-based Surface Plasmon Resonance imaging (SPRi) with anti-endoglin VHH antibodies microarray on a gold-covered biochip was used to characterize the binding to endoglin expressed on the surface membrane of SC cells. ...
  • Effect of out-of-village working activities on recent malaria exposure in the Peruvian Amazon using parametric g-formula 
    Carrasco Escobar, Gabriel; Rosado, J.; Nolasco, Oscar; White, M.T.; Mueller, I.; Castro, M.C.; Rodriguez-Ferruci, H.; Gamboa Vilela, Dionicia Baziliza; Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro; Vinetz, Joseph Michael; Benmarhnia, T. (Springer, 2022)
    In the Amazon Region of Peru, occupational activities are important drivers of human mobility and may increase the individual risk of being infected while contributing to increasing malaria community-level transmission. ...
  • Quantitative Detection of Leishmania in Rhipicephalus microplus and Amblyomma sabanerae in the Peruvian Amazon Basin 
    Rojas-Jaimes, J.; Correa-Núñez, G. H.; Donayre, L.; Lescano Guevara, Andres Guillermo (MDPI, 2022)
    Leishmaniasis is a disease of public importance with a complex transmission cycle. A quantitative PCR was developed by using the small subunit of the ribosomal RNA gene (SSU rRNA) as a DNA target, which is conserved in all ...
  • A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat 
    Lazarus, J. V.; Romero, D.; Kopka, C. J.; Karim, S. A.; Abu-Raddad, L. J.; Almeida, G.; Baptista-Leite, R.; Barocas, J. A.; Barreto, M. L.; Bar-Yam, Y.; Bassat, Q.; Batista, C.; Bazilian, M.; Chiou, S.-T.; del Rio, C.; Dore, G. J.; Gao, G. F.; Gostin, L. O.; Hellard, M.; Jimenez, J. L.; Kang, G.; Lee, N.; Matičič, M.; McKee, M.; Nsanzimana, S.; Oliu-Barton, M.; Pradelski, B.; Pyzik, O.; Rabin, K.; Raina, S.; Rashid, S.F.; Rathe, M.; Saenz, R.; Singh, S.; Trock-Hempler, M.; Villapol, S.; Yap, P.; Binagwaho, A.; Kamarulzaman, A.; El-Mohandes, A.; Barreto, M.; del Rio, C.; Abdulla, S.; Addleman, S.; Aghayeva, G.; Agius, R.; Ahmed, M.; Ramy, M. A.; Aide, P.; Aleman, S.; Alfred, J.-P.; Ali, S.; Aliaga, J.; Aloudat, T.; Alqahtani, S. A.; Al-Salman, J.; Amuasi, J. H.; Agrawal, A.; Anwar, W.; Araujo-Jorge, T.; Artaza, O.; Asadi, L.; Awuku, Y.; Baker, M.; Barberia, L.; Bascolo, E.; Belcher, P.; Bell, L.; Benzaken, A.; Bergholtz, E.; Bhadelia, N.; Bhan, A.; Bilodeau, S.; Bitrán, R.; Bluyssen, P.; Bosman, A.; Bozza, F. A.; Brinkmann, M. M.; Brown, A.; Mellado, B.; Bukusi, E.; Bullen, C.; Buonanno, G.; Burgess, R.; Butler, M.; Byakika-Kibwika, P.; Cabieses, B.; Carlsson, G.; Cascini, F.; Chabala, C.; Chakroun, M.; Cheng, K. K.; Chetty, A.; Chumachenko, D.; Consalves, G.; Conway Morris, A.; Cordie, A.; Corrah, T.; Crabtree-Ramírez, B.; Dashdorj, N.; Davidovitch, N.; de Souza, L. E.; Dhariwal, A. C.; Druică, E.; Ergonul, O.; Erondu, N. A.; Essar, M. Y.; Ewing, A.; Fanjul, G.; Feierstein, D.; Feigl-Ding, E.; Figueroa, R.; Figueroa, J.P.; Fisher, D.; Flores, W.; Forero-Peña, D. A.; Frumkin, H.; Gamkrelidze, A.; Gandhi, M.; Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet; Garcia-Basteiro, A. L.; García-Sastre, A.; Garg, S.; Gbeasor-Komlanvi, F. A.; Gershenson, C.; Gilada, I.; Giovanella, L.; González, M.; Green, M. S.; Greenhalgh, T.; Griffin, P.; Griffin, S.; Grinsztejn, B.; Anand, T.; Guerra, G.; Guinto, R.; Gujski, M.; Guner, R.; Hamdy, A.; Hâncean, M.-G.; Haniffa, A.; Hartigan-Go, K. Y.; Hassan, H. K.; Hay, S. I.; Heino, M. T. J.; Hel, Z.; Hotez, P.; Hu, J.; Hukić, M.; IJsselmuiden, C.; Iroko, D.; Iskarous, M.; Izugbara, C.; Jacobs, C.; Jadad, A. R.; Jehan, F.; Jordan, A.; Jroundi, I.; Kain, K.; Kamberi, F.; Karamov, E.; Karan, A.; Katz, R.; Katzourakis, A.; Kazembe, A.; Khamis, F.; Khamzayev, K.; Khanyola, J.; Khunti, K.; Kiguli-Malwadde, E.; Kim, W. J.; Kirenga, B. J.; Klimovský, D.; Kmush, B. L.; Knaul, F.; Kogevinas, M.; Kristensen, F.; Kumar, D.; Kumar, R.; Kvalsvig, A.; Lacerda, M. V.; Lal, A.; Lawton, T.; Lemery, J.; Leonardi, A. J.; Li, Y.; Löttvall, J.; Lounis, M.; Maceira, D.; MacIntyre, C. R.; Madani, A.; Magiorkinis, G.; Malekzadeh, R.; Choisy, M.; Marcelin, J. R.; Marks, G. B.; Marr, L.; Marrazzo, J.; Martina, A.; Martín-Moreno, J. M.; Mateos, C.; Mayxay, M.; Mazarati, J. B.; Mboup, S.; McDonald, J.; McMillan, F.; Mechili, E.; Medici, A.; Davis, S. L. M.; Meier, P.; Memish, Z. A.; Menon, J.; Menon, P.; Mesiano-Crookston, J.; Michie, S.; Mikolasevic, I.; Milicevic, O.; Mishra, A. K.; Mohamed, R.; Mokdad, A. H.; Monroy-Valle, M.; Morawska, L.; Moschos, S. A.; Motawea, K.; Mousavi, S. H.; Mumtaz, G.; Munene, P. K.; Muñoz Almagro, C.; Muriuki, J.; Muyingo, S.; Naniche, D.; Naylor, C. D.; Ndembi, N.; Nemec, J.; Nesteruk, I.; Ngaruiya, C.; Nguyen, H.; Nikolova, D.; Nitzan, D.; Norheim, O.; Noushad, M.; Ntoumi, F.; Nyborg, G. A.; Ochodo, E.; Odabasi, Z.; Okwen, M. P.; Olivia, K.; Ong, D. S. Y.; Opara, I.; Orozco, M.; Oshitani, H.; Pagel, C.; Pai, M.; Pálsdóttir, B.; Papatheodoridis, G.; Paraskevis, D.; Leigh, J. P.; Pécoul, B.; Peichl, A.; Perez-Then, E.; Duc, P. P.; Philippe, C.; Pineda Rojas, A.; Pladsen, C.; Pozniak, A.; Quiroga, R.; Qureshi, H.; Rampal, S.; Ranney, M.; Rathe, L.; Ratzan, S.; Raventos, H.; Rees, H.; Reis, R.; Ricciardi, W.; Rizk, N.; Robalo, M.; Robertson, E.; Robinson, L.; Rokx, C.; Ros, T.; Røttingen, J.-A.; Rubin, M.; Ruxrungtam, K.; Sadirova, S.; Saha, S.; Salgado, N.; Sanchez, L.; Sangaramoorthy, T.; Santamaria-Ulloa, C.; Santos, R.; Sawaf, B.; Schneider, M. F.; Schooley, R. T.; Sener, A.; Sepulveda, J.; Shah, J.; Shibani, M.; Shoib, S.; Sikazwe, I.; Šimaitis, A.; Gill, A. S.; Skhvitaridze, N.; Sokolović, M.; Solomon, R.; Solórzano, X.; Springer, S. A.; Šrol, J.; Staines, A.; Stelfox, H. T.; Strathdee, S.; Sulaiman, L. H.; Sutton, B.; Svanæs, D.; Swed, S.; Sypsa, V.; Sørensen, K.; Tajudeen, R.; Tan, A.; Tang, J.; Tanner, M.; Sethi, T.; Temmerman, M.; Than, K. K.; Tinto, H.; Tomètissi, S. P.; Torres, I.; Tshering, K. P.; Tsiodras, S.; Tsofa, B.; Vahlne, A.; Vargas, J. R.; Bernal, I. D. V.; Ventura, D.; Vilasanjuan, R.; Vipond, J.; Wamala-Andersson, S.; Wargocki, P.; West, R.; Weyand, A.; White, T. M.; Wolff, G.; Yao, M.; Yates, C.A.; Yeboah, G.; Yee-Sin, L.; Yi, S.; Teo, Y.-Y.; Yong, P.; Zamora-Mesía, V.; Øvrehus, A.; The COVID-19 Consensus Statement Panel (Springer, 2022)
    Despite notable scientific and medical advances, broader political, socioeconomic and behavioural factors continue to undercut the response to the COVID-19 pandemic1,2. Here we convened, as part of this Delphi study, a ...
  • Persistent and De Novo GERD After Sleeve Gastrectomy: Manometric and pH-Impedance Study Findings 
    Poggi, Luciano; Bernui, Grazia M.; Romani, Diego A.; Gavidia, Agustin F.; Poggi, Luis A. (Springer, 2022)
    Purpose: One concerning disadvantage of sleeve gastrectomy (SG) technique as a treatment for obesity is the risk of developing gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or worsening its symptoms after surgery. The purpose of ...
  • Determinants of losses in the tuberculosis infection cascade of care among children and adolescent contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis cases: A Brazilian multi-centre longitudinal study 
    Sobral, L.; Arriaga, Maria B.; Souza, A.B.; Araújo-Pereira, M.; Barreto-Duarte, B.; Sales, C.; Rocha, M.S.; Benjamin, A.; Moreira, A.S.R.; de Oliveira, J.G.; Carvalho, A.C.; Spener-Gomes, R.; Figueiredo, M.C.; Cavalcante, S.; Durovni, B.; Lapa-e-Silva, J.R.; Kritski, A.L.; Rolla, V.C.; Sterling, T.R.; Cordeiro-Santos, M.; Andrade, B.B.; RePORT Brazil consortium (Elsevier, 2022)
    Background: Approximately 10% of the global tuberculosis (TB) burden is in children. Identification, diagnosis, and early treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (TBI) is critical to prevent progression to TB in ...
  • Geographical distribution and genetic characterization of pfhrp2 negative Plasmodium falciparum parasites in the Peruvian Amazon 
    Bendezu, Jorge; Torres Fajardo, Katherine Jessica; Villasis Mayuri, Elizabeth Melisa; Incardona, S.; Bell, D.; Vinetz, Joseph Michael; Gamboa Vilela, Dionicia Baziliza (Public Library of Science, 2022)
    Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have been evaluated in the Peruvian Amazon region and their performance has been variable. This region is known for being the first with documented evidence of wild Plasmodium falciparum ...
  • Experimental brain infection with cysticercosis in sheep 
    Sota Ortecho, K. A.; Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo; Verastegui Pimentel, Manuela Renee; Toribio, Luz; Chile Andrade, Nancy; Angulo, Noelia; Cangalaya, Carla; Calcina, J.; Gonzalez Zariquiey, Armando Emiliano; Gilman, Robert Hugh; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo (Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2022)
    Objective. To explore the feasibility of developing a sheep model of neurocysticercosis (NCC) by intracranial infection with T. solium oncospheres. Materials and methods. We carried out an experimental infection model of ...
  • Enfermedad de Wilson: A propósito de un caso neuropsiquiátrico de diagnóstico tardío 
    Huanco-Condori, Jessica; Tomateo-Torvisco, Jorge David; Cruzado, Lizardo (Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Neurología, 2022)
    The comprehensive assessment of a psychiatric case requires evaluating the symptoms from a comprehensive perspective, without bias, and suspecting unlikely pathologies where appropriate. We emphasize this from a case of ...

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