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Pristine but metal-rich Río Sucio (Dirty River) is dominated by Gallionella and other iron-sulfur oxidizing microbes
(2017-03)
Whether the extreme conditions of acidity and heavy metal pollution of streams and rivers originating in pyritic formations are caused primarily by mining activities or by natural activities of metal-oxidizing microbes ...
Nutritional status of the elderly in Palmares, Costa Rica
(Arch Latinoam nutr 33 (2) 409-422, 1983-04-01)
The nutritional status of aged persons living in a small Costa Rican community was evaluated using anthropometric measurements, clinical findings and dietary surveys. Eighteen per cent of the aged were overweight, a condition ...
Antenatal events and postnatal growth and survival of children in a rural Guatemalan village
(Annals of human biology, 1976, VOL. 3, NO. 4, 303-315, 1976-07-03)
The biological features of all pregnant women and newborn
infants in a typical rural village of Guatemala have been studied
from 1964 to the present; 458 pregnancies have been analysed. The
mothers averaged 143'1 em in ...
¿Black is black? El Caribe y Centroamérica más allá de África y la negritud
(2016)
En los estudios sobre el Caribe se ha vuelto un tópico común entender la región en términos de afrodescendencia y negritud. Con eso, se ha perfilado cierta tendencia de encerrar el espacio cultural tan diverso del Caribe ...
Antivenom for snakebite envenoming in Sri Lanka: The need for geographically specific antivenom and improved efficacy
(2013-07)
Sri Lanka is a tropical developing island nation that endures significant economic and medical burden as a result of snakebite envenomation, having not only a high prevalence of envenomations, but also one of the highest ...
Epidemiología y ecología del cáncer gástrico en Costa Rica
(Bol Oficina Sanit Panam journal 95(6) p. 495 - 506, 1983-12)
Para analizar la epidemiología del cáncer gástrico en Costa Rica y la posible influencia de algunos factores ecológicos en su incidencia anual, se utilizaron datos de los archivos deI Registro Nacional de Tumores, estos ...