Artículos: Recent submissions

  • Spina bifida folate fortification in Brazil, update 2022: a cross-sectional study. 
    Zanon, Nelci; Dos Santos Silva, Rhuann Pontes; Varjão Vieira, Eduardo; Niquen Jimenez, María Milagros; Estevão, Iracema; da Costa Benalia, Victor Hugo; Coelho, Giselle; Salomão, Francisco (Springer, 2023)
    INTRODUCTION: Despite improving maternal-child indicators in Brazil, congenital malformations are still the second cause of mortality in the first years of life. This work aims to compare statistical data before and after ...
  • Circulation and stratification drivers during the summer season in the upwelling bay of Paracas (Peru): A modelling study 
    Arellano, C.; Echevin, V.; Merma Mora, Lander; Chamorro, A.; Gutiérrez Aguilar, Dimitri Alexey; Aguirre-Velarde, A.; Tam Málaga, Jorge; Colas, F. (Elsevier, 2023)
    The circulation and stratification in the shallow semi-enclosed bay of Paracas located downstream of the main upwelling cell off the Peruvian coast were studied during the summer season using a regional circulation model ...
  • Neural Machine Translation for Aymara to Spanish 
    Alanoca H.A.; Aruhuanca Chahuares, Brisayda; Caceres K.A.; Saire J.C. (Springer, 2023)
    There are many native languages in Latin America, over the decades the number of speakers was reduced by the strong influence of the Spanish language. There is a continuous concern for the preservation of these languages, ...
  • Neural Machine Translation for Native Language Aymara to English 
    Apaza, H.; Aruhuanca Chahuares, Brisayda; Nina, M.M.; Flores, A.; Silva, C.; Tito, E. (Springer, 2023)
    In Latin America, there is a culture called Aymara, which has its own language also named Aymara. It is a native language in danger of extension declared by UNESCO and a heritage of the Peruvian nation. The work of Neural ...
  • Assessing metal(loid)s concentrations and biomarkers in tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) of three ecosystems of the Yaqui River Basin, Mexico. 
    Martínez-Durazo, Ángel; Rivera-Domínguez, Marisela; García-Gasca, Silvia Alejandra; Betancourt-Lozano, Miguel; Cruz Acevedo, Edgar; Jara-Marini, Martin Enrique (Springer, 2023)
    Aquatic ecosystems have been suffering deleterious effects due to the development of different economic activities. Metal(loid)s are one of the most persistent chemicals in environmental reservoirs, and may produce adverse ...
  • Anatomical Variant in Middle Turbinate: Concha Bullosa, Finding on Cone Beam Computerized Tomography 
    Aguirre Alanya, Kahterine Melissa; Leandro Melgarejo, Margarita Armandina; Ruiz García de Chacón, Vilma Elizabeth (Universidad de Costa Rica, 2023)
    The nasal turbinates, also called nasal shells, are attached to the lateral and/or superior walls of the nostril and can present several anatomical variations. Thus, we can mention the concha bullosa, the ...
  • Tomographic Evaluation of Mandibular Buccal Shelf in Patients with Different Vertical Growth Pattern 
    García Gonzales, Luis Angel; Ruiz García de Chacón, Vilma Elizabeth (Universidad de Costa Rica, 2023)
    The purpose of this research was the tomographic evaluation of the Mandibular Buccal Shelf (MBS) in orthodontic patients with different vertical growth pattern. An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective ...
  • Lifelong exposure to high-altitude hypoxia in humans is associated with improved redox homeostasis and structural-functional adaptations of the neurovascular unit. 
    Stacey, Benjamin S.; Hoiland, Ryan L.; Caldwell, Hannah G.; Howe, Connor A.; Vermeulen, Tyler; Tymko, Michael M.; Vizcardo Galindo, Gustavo Andrés; Bermudez Pumasunco, Daniella Inés; Figueroa Mujiica, Romulo Joseph; Gasho, Christopher; Tuaillon, Edouard; Hirtz, Christophe; Lehmann, Sylvain; Marchi, Nicola; Tsukamoto, Hayato; Villafuerte Castrillón, Francisco Carlos; Ainslie, Philip N.; Bailey, Damian M. (Wiley, 2023)
    KEY POINTS: High-altitude (HA) hypoxia has the potential to alter the structural-functional integrity of the neurovascular unit (NVU) in humans. For the first time, we examined to what extent chronic and lifelong hypoxia ...
  • COVOX: Providing oxygen during the COVID-19 health emergency. 
    Rubio Grases, Joaquina; Rojas, Christiam; Sanchez, Midori; Gómez-Alzate, Daniela; Córdova, Mauricio; Montoya, Veronica; Castaneda, Benjamin; Chang, Javier; Pérez-Buitrago, Sandra (Elsevier, 2023)
    We introduce an autonomous oxygen concentrator that was designed in Peru to fight the oxygen shortage produced worldwide as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Oxygen concentrators represent a suitable and favorable ...
  • Cutaneous leishmaniasis treatment and therapeutic outcomes in special populations: A collaborative retrospective study. 
    Castro, Maria Del Mar; Rode, Joelle; Machado, Paulo R L; Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro; Hueb, Marcia; Cota, Glaucia; Rojas, Isis Valentina; Orobio, Yenifer; Oviedo Sarmiento, Oscar; Rojas, Ernesto; Quintero, Juliana; Pimentel, Maria Ines Fernandes; Soto, Jaime; Suprien, Carvel; Alvarez Romero, Fiorela Yuli; Ramos Ttito, Ana Pilar; Arantes, Rayssa Basilio Dos Santos; da Silva, Rosiana Estefane; Arenas, Claudia Marcela; Vélez, Ivan Dario; Lyra, Marcelo Rosandiski; Saravia, Nancy Gore; Arana, Byron; Alexander, Neal (Public Library of Science, 2023)
    BACKGROUND: Treatment guidance for children and older adult patients affected by cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is unclear due to limited representation of these groups in clinical trials.METHODS: We conducted a collaborative ...
  • Estimation of Dental Age Using the Kvaal Method with Digital Panoramic Radiographs in Peruvian Adults 
    Izaguirre-López, H.N.; Suarez-Ponce, D.G.; Quezada Márquez, Milushka Miroslava; Nolberto-Sifuentes V.A., Alvarado-Muñoz E.R. (Universidad de Costa Rica, 2023)
    To determine the accuracy of the Kvaal method in the estimation of dental age through the analysis of digital panoramic radiographs of patients between 20 and 47 years of age who attended the stomatological clinic of the ...
  • Bovine lactoferrin for the prevention of COVID-19 infection in health care personnel: a double-blinded randomized clinical trial (LF-COVID) 
    Navarro Hoyos, Rafaella Alexandra; Paredes, Jose Luis; Tucto, Lourdes; Medina, Carlos; Angles-Yanqui, Eddie; Nario, Juan Carlos; Ruiz Cabrejos, Jorge; Quintana, Juan Luis; Turpo-Espinoza, Kevin; Mejia-Cordero, Fernando; Aphang-Lam, Meylin; Florez, Jorge; Carrasco Escobar, Gabriel; Ochoa Woodell, Theresa Jean (Springer, 2022)
    Lactoferrin (LF) has in vitro antiviral activity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This study aimed to determine the effect of bovine lactoferrin (bLF) in the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 ...
  • Peruvian children toothbrushing during the COVID-19 pandemic 
    Garcés Elías, María Claudia; Beltrán Silva, Jorge Arturo; Del Castillo-Lopez, Cesar Eduardo; Agudelo-Suarez, Andres A.; Leon Manco, Roberto Antonio (F1000 Research Ltd, 2022)
    Background: Toothbrushing is a convenient, inexpensive, widespread and culturally accepted method, resulting in an ideal public health outcome. This study aimed to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on toothbrushing ...
  • New animal models of neurocysticercosis can help understand epileptogenesis in neuroinfection 
    García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Verastegui Pimentel, Manuela Renee; Arroyo Hurtado, Gianfranco; Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo; Gilman, Robert Hugh; for The Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru (Frontiers, 2022)
    Neurocysticercosis (NCC), defined as an infection of the central nervous system (CNS) by the cystic larval stage of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium, remains a major challenge in public health mainly due to associated ...
  • Association of Psychosocial Stress with Risk of Acute Stroke 
    Reddin, Catriona; Murphy, Robert; Hankey, Graeme J.; Judge, Conor; Xavier, Denis; Rosengren, Annika; Ferguson, John; Alvarez-Iglesias, Alberto; Oveisgharan, Shahram; Iversen, Helle K.; Lanas, Fernando; Al-Hussein, Fawaz; Czlonkowska, Anna; Oguz, Aytekin; McDermott, Clodagh; Pogosova, Nana; Málaga Rodríguez, Germán Javier; Langhorne, Peter; Wang, Xingyu; Wasay, Mohammad; Yusuf, Salim; O'Donnell, Martin; INTERSTROKE investigators (American Medical Association, 2022)
    Importance: Psychosocial stress is considered a modifiable risk factor for stroke. Given the prevalence of chronic and acute exposure to stress, it represents a potentially attractive target for population-health interventions. ...
  • Risk of death, hospitalization and intensive care unit admission by SARS-CoV-2 variants in Peru: a retrospective study. 
    Fano-Sizgorich, Diego; Vasquez-Velasquez, Cinthya; Orellana, Laura R.; Ponce-Torres, Christian; Gamboa-Serpa, Henry; Alvarez-Huambachano, Keyla; Gonzales Rengifo, Gustavo Francisco (Elsevier, 2022)
    Objectives: Peru has had the highest death toll from the pandemic worldwide; however, it is not clear what the effects of the different variants on these outcomes are. The study aimed to evaluate the risk of death, ...
  • Strategies for segregation during foraging in sympatric otariids of the Peruvian upwelling Humboldt Current System 
    Cárdenas-Alayza, Susana; Adkesson, M.J.; Gutierrez Aguilar, Dimitri Alexey; Demarcq, H.; Tremblay, Y. (Inter-Research, 2022)
    The competitive exclusion principle predicts that species exhibit segregation mechanisms to coexist. In the Humboldt Current System, South American sea lions Otaria byronia (SASL) coexist with South American fur seals ...
  • A molecular barcode and web-based data analysis tool to identify imported Plasmodium vivax malaria 
    Trimarsanto, Hidayat; Amato, Roberto; Pearson, Richard D.; Sutanto, Edwin; Noviyanti, Rintis; Trianty, Leily; Marfurt, Jutta; Pava, Zuleima; Echeverry, Diego F.; Lopera-Mesa, Tatiana M.; Montenegro, Lidia M.; Tobon-Castano, Alberto; Grigg, Matthew J.; Barber, Bridget; William, Timothy; Anstey, Nicholas M.; Getachew, Sisay; Petros, Beyene; Aseffa, Abraham; Assefa, Ashenafi; Rahim, Awab G.; Chau, Nguyen H.; Hien, Tran T.; Alam, Mohammad S.; Khan, Wasif A.; Ley, Benedikt; Thriemer, Kamala; Wangchuck, Sonam; Hamedi, Yaghoob; Adam, Ishag; Liu, Yaobao; Gao, Qi; Sriprawat, Kanlaya; Ferreira, Marcelo U.; Laman, Moses; Barry, Alyssa; Mueller, Ivo; Lacerda, Marcus V. G.; Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro; Krudsood, Srivicha; Lon, Chanthap; Mohammed, Rezika; Yilma, Daniel; Pereira, Dhelio B; Espino, Fe E. J.; Chu, Cindy S.; Velez, Ivan D.; Namaik-Larp, Chayadol; Villegas, Maria F.; Green, Justin A.; Koh, Gavin; Rayner, Julian C.; Drury, Eleanor; Goncalves, Sonia; Simpson, Victoria; Miotto, Olivo; Miles, Alistair; White, Nicholas J.; Nosten, Francois; Kwiatkowski, Dominic P.; Price, Ric N.; Auburn, Sarah (Nature Research, 2022)
    Traditionally, patient travel history has been used to distinguish imported from autochthonous malaria cases, but the dormant liver stages of Plasmodium vivax confound this approach. Molecular tools offer an alternative ...
  • The clinical pharmacology of tafenoquine in the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria: An individual patient data meta-analysis 
    Watson, James A.; Commons, Robert J.; Tarning, Joel; Simpson, Julie A.; Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro; Lacerda, Marcus V. G.; Green, Justin A.; Koh, Gavin C. K. W.; Chu, Cindy S.; Nosten, Francois H.; Price, Richard N.; Day, Nicholas P. J.; White, Nicholas J. (eLife Sciences Publications, 2022)
    Tafenoquine is a newly licensed antimalarial drug for the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria. The mechanism of action and optimal dosing are uncertain. We pooled individual data from 1102 patients and 72 healthy ...
  • The urban built environment and adult BMI, obesity, and diabetes in Latin American cities 
    Anza-Ramirez, Cecilia; Lazo, Mariana; Zafra-Tanaka, Jessica Hanae; Avila-Palencia, Ione; Bilal, Usama; Hernandez-Vasquez, Akram; Knoll, Carolyn; Lopez-Olmedo, Nancy; Mazariegos, Monica; Moore, Kari; Rodriguez, Daniel A.; Sarmiento, Olga L.; Stern, Dalia; Tumas, Natalia; Miranda, J. Jaime (Nature Research, 2022)
    Latin America is the world's most urbanized region and its heterogeneous urban development may impact chronic diseases. Here, we evaluated the association of built environment characteristics at the sub-city -intersection ...

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