Browsing by Subject "Colombia"

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    • Acute chagas outbreaks: molecular and biological features of Trypanosoma cruzi isolates, and clinical aspects ... 
      Díaz, Martha Lucía; Leal, Sandra; Mantilla, Julio César; Molina Berríos, Alfredo Enrique; López Muñoz, Rodrigo; Solari Illescas, Aldo; Escobar, Patricia; González Rugeles, Clara Isabel (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Outbreaks of acute Chagas disease associated with oral transmission are easily detected nowadays with trained health personnel in areas of low endemicity, or in which the vector transmission has been interrupted. ...
    • Avian H11 influenza virus isolated from domestic poultry in a Colombian live animal market 
      Jiménez-Bluhm, Pedro; Karlsson, Erik A.; Ciuoderis, Karl A.; Cortez, Valerie; Marvin, Shauna A.; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Schultz-Cherry, Stacey; Osorio, Jorge E. (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      © The Author(s) 2016. Live animal markets (LAMs) are an essential source of food and trade in Latin American countries; however, they can also serve as 'hotbeds' for the emergence and potential spillover of avian influenza ...
    • Breeding and parental behaviour in the glass frog Centrolene savagei (Anura: Centrolenidae) 
      Vargas-Salinas, Fernando; Quintero-Ángel, Andrés; Osorio-Domínguez, Daniel; Rojas-Morales, Julián Andrés; Escobar-Lasso, Sergio; Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, Paul David Alfonso; Rivera-Correa, Mauricio; Amézquita, Adolfo (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2014)
      We examine factors that influence male mating success in the glass frog Centrolene savagei; in addition, we describe courtship behaviour, oviposition and early parental behaviour. Fieldwork was conducted in the Colombian ...
    • Changes in diet quality over 10 years of nutrition transition in Colombia: analysis of the 2005 and 2015 ... 
      Mora García, Gustavo; Ruiz Díaz, María Stephany; Villegas Ríos, Rodrigo; García Larsen, Vanessa (Springer, 2020)
      Objectives To describe the changes in diet quality in Colombians using nationally representative samples from the 2005 and 2015 nutrition surveys. Methods Repeated cross-sectional analyses of the National Nutrition Surveys ...
    • Characterization of a Trypanosoma rangeli Strain of Colombian Origin 
      Zuñiga, C.; Palau, T.; Penin, P.; Gamallo, C.; De Diego, J. A. (Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, 1997)
      A Colombian strain of Trypanosoma rangeli was characterized by analyzing its behaviour in different axenic and cellular culture, its infection rate and the histopathological lesions produced in experimental animals. Although ...
    • Colombian Trypanosoma cruzi major genotypes circulating in patients: Minicircle homologies by cross-hybridization ... 
      González, C. I.; Ortiz Ortiz, José Manuel; Solari Illescas, Aldo (2010)
      Here we present compelling evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi genotypes infecting 77 human cases of Chagas disease in Santander Department of Colombia. The patients were clinically studied and classified according to the presence ...
    • Differential expression of Trypanosoma cruzi I associated with clinical forms of Chagas disease: Overexpression ... 
      Díaz, M. L.; Solari Illescas, Aldo; González, C. I. (2011)
      Chagas disease has a variable clinical course with different manifestations and heterogenous geographical distribution. Some studies suggest that this clinical variability could be influenced by the genetic variability of ...
    • Respuesta con enfoque de derechos de la niñez frente a la pandemia por COVID-19 en Chile, Colombia y Perú 
      González, Fernando; Pinzón Segura, María Camila; Pineda Restrepo, Bertha Luz; Calle Dávila, María del Carmen; Siles Valenzuela, Estefanía; Herrera Olano, Natalia; Mesa Rubio, María Lucía (Pan Amer Health, 2021)
      Objetivo. Describir las estrategias que fueron establecidas por Chile, Colombia y Perú durante el primer año de la pandemia por COVID-19 y compararlas desde el enfoque de derechos de la niñez. Métodos. Se realizó un ...
    • Rethinking research management in Colombia 
      Zarama, Roberto; Reyes, Alfonso; Aldana, Eduardo; Villalobos, Jorge; Bohorquez, Juan C.; Calderón, Juan P.; Botero, Alonso; Lammoglia, Nelson L.; Villaveces, José L.; Pinzón, Luis; Bonilla, Ricardo; Mejía, Andrés; Bermeo, José; Dyner, Isaac; Johnson, Neil F.; Valdivia, (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2007)
      Purpose - This paper seeks to present a proposal to change the form in which knowledge is produced in Colombia. Design/methodology/approach - Discusses the key issue - to transform the way in which the production of knowledge ...