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Snakebite envenoming from a global perspective: Towards an integrated approach
(2010-12-15)
Snakebite envenoming is a neglected public health challenge of compelling importance in many regions of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and Papua-New Guinea. Addressing the problem of snakebite ...
Diagnóstico molecular de la distrofia miotónica (DM) en Costa Rica
(Acta Medica Costarricense :43 (4) p. 159-167, 2001-10)
La Distrofia Miotónica es una enfermedad multisistémica de herencia autosómica dominante. El defecto molecular es una expansión del trinucleótido CTG presente en Ia región 3' no codificante (3' UTR) del gen DMPK, localizado ...
Reducing the impact of snakebite envenoming in Latin America and the Caribbean: achievements and challenges ahead
(2014-09-01)
Snakebite envenoming constitutes an important public health problem in Latin America and some countries of
the Caribbean. The advances and pending tasks in the study and control of this neglected tropical disease in ...
El Síndrome de la Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida (SIDA) a mediados de 1989
(1989)
El SIDA continúa atrayendo la atención de un amplio sector de la academia científica mundial, lo cual se traduce en la separación por parte de numerosos científicos, de sus intereses originales. El resultado ha sido que ...
Current challenges for confronting the public health problem of snakebite envenoming in Central America
(2014-03-06)
Snakebite envenoming is a serious public health problem in Central America, where approximately 5,500 cases occur every year. Panama has the highest incidence and El Salvador the lowest. The majority, and most severe, cases ...
Disabilities caused by unstable mutations in Costa Rica
(Revista de Biología Tropical 52(3) p.501-505, 2004-12-15)
Myotonic dystrophy and fragile X syndrome are two genetically determined relatively common disabilities.
Both are examples of a new type of mutation mechanism called unstable or dynamic mutations, triple
repeats expansions ...
Chikungunya: un virus que nos acecha
(2015-06-01)
El virus chikungunya representa una amenaza para Costa Rica. Este arbovirus ha sido introducido
al continente americano desde finales de 2013. Debido a sus características epidemiológicas y
virológicas, y a la presencia ...
Envenenamientos por mordeduras de serpientes en América Latina y el Caribe: Una visión integral de carácter regional
(2011-01)
Se analiza la situación de los envenenamientos por
mordeduras de serpiente en América Latina y el Caribe, los
cuales representan un importante problema de Salud Pública
en la región. Esta patología afecta, fundamentalmente, ...
Efficacy and safety of two whole IgG polyvalent antivenoms, refined by caprylic acid fractionation with or without β-propiolactone, in the treatment of Bothrops asper bites in Colombia
(2006-12)
The efficacy and safety of two whole IgG polyvalent antivenoms (A and B) were compared in a randomised, blinded clinical trial in 67 patients systemically envenomed by Bothrops asper in Colombia. Both antivenoms were ...