Browsing by Subject "Epidemiology"
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(Taylor & Francis Inc, 2021)Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is an uncommon yet unpredictable, severe, and life-threatening disease with the highest burden in young children. In Chile, most IMD is caused by meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) and ...
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(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2003)A network was established to acquire basic knowledge of Cryptococcus neoformans in IberoAmerican countries. To this effect, 340 clinical, veterinary, and environmental isolates from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, ...
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(Sociedad de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Neurocirugía, 2016)Introduction: It presents the update of an epidemiologic descriptive study of deaths by suicide that took place in the Tarapacá region, Chile. The study encompasses almost a quarter of a century, between the years 1990 ...
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(Springer, 2015)To further understand the composition of population of parasite in a single host, we analyzed the GP60 gene of Cryptosporidium parvum amplified from DNA of a randomly selected isolate found in the feces of a diarrheic ...
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(MDPI, 2021)Human Norovirus is currently the main viral cause of acute gastroenteritis (AGEs) in most countries worldwide. Nearly 50 years after the discovery of the “Norwalk virus” by Kapikian and colleagues, the scientific and ...
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(Sage Publications, 2017)Objectives The objectives of this study were to examine the demographic and clinical features associated with the occurrence of pleuropulmonary manifestations, the predictive factors of their occurrence and their impact ...
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(Medwave Estudios, 2020)Introduction SARS CoV-2 pandemic is pressing hard on the responsiveness of health systems worldwide, notably concerning the massive surge in demand for intensive care hospital beds. Aim This study proposes a methodology ...
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(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2003)
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(2005)OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of asthma symptoms and their association with sensitisation to eight allergens and bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) to methacholine. SETTING: A random sample of 1232 adults, aged 22 ...
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(2009)Background: Dementia is becoming a major public health problem in Latin America (LA), yet epidemiological information on dementia remains scarce in this region. This study analyzes data from epidemiological studies on the ...
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(1979)Summary: The prevalence of epilepsy among children born in 1966 and reaching the age of 9 years during 1975 was investigated in Melipilla, Chile, using questions similar to those used by Rose et al. (1973). Of 2,104 potential ...
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(2012)Background: Psychiatric disorders that appear during childhood or adolescence should be a public health priority. Aim: To report the results of a national representative survey in the Latin American region examinig the ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2020)Background: The prevalence of cholelithiasis and gallbladder cancer may be different across ethnic groups. Aim: To study the prevalence of cholelithiasis and gallbladder cancer among Aymara individuals. Material and ...
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(Dermatology Online Journal, 2016)© 2016 by the article author(s). During the last few decades, management of psoriasis has changed worldwide, owing to a better understanding of its pathophysiology and the introduction of new treatments. As experts in the ...
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Reflexiones en torno a la ley N° 20.584 y sus implicancias para la investigación biomédica en Chile (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2015)After years of discussion by the Chilean legislature, the Law Nº 20.584, which regulates health care related rights and duties of people, entered into force in Chile in October 2012. This bill represents an important step ...
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(Springer, 2018)Background To describe the factors affecting the incidence of renal replacement therapy (RRT) among children, information from RRT registries is required. We aimed to give an overview of existing pediatric RRT registries ...
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(1992)A synthetic oligodeoxynucletide of 40 nucleotides corresponding to nucleotides 33–72 of the gene coding for the viral protein VP7 of rotavirus, was used as a nucleic acid probe to develop a non-radiactive hybridization ...
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(2012)Background: Rotavirus is the main cause of severe gastroenteritis (GE) in children. Two vaccines currently available have proven effi cacy against the predominant genotypes. Rotavirus genotypes vary both geographically ...
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(Oxford Univ Press Inc, 2020)Objective. Strength training is recommended for people with hemophilia; however, published data are anecdotal and have methodological limitations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness ...
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(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2011)
