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Audiologic Features of Norrie Disease
(Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 114 (7) p. 533-538, 2005)
Objectives: Norrie disease is an X-linked recessive disorder in which patients are born blind and develop sensory hearing
loss in adolescence. The hearing loss associated with Norrie disease has been shown in a genetically ...
The struggle of neglected scientific groups: ten years of NeTropica efforts to promote research in tropical diseases in Central America
(PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011-07-26)
The general strategy used by high-income countries to address global health challenges in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) relies heavily on short-term strategies designed to diminish the burden of diseases afflicting ...
Altitude and regional gradients in chronic kidney disease prevalence in Costa Rica: Data from the Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study
(2016-01)
Objectives
Recent studies in Central America indicate that mortality attributable to chronic kidney disease (CKD) is rising rapidly. We sought to determine the prevalence and regional variation of CKD and the relationship ...
Infectious diseases in a Nicaraguan refugee camp in Costa Rica
(1989-01)
Some Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica are in refugee camps. The types and rates of infectious diseases in the Pueblo Nuevo refugee camp were measured by examining medical records for 1985 and performing stool and blood ...
The Need for Full Integration of Snakebite Envenoming within a Global Strategy to Combat the Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Way Forward
(2013-06-13)
Snakebite envenoming constitutes a serious medical condition that primarily affects residents of rural communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and New Guinea [1], [2]. It is an occupational, environmental, and domestic ...
The need for an integrated approach in confronting snakebite envenoming in Latin America: the relevance of endogenous scientific and technological research
(2016)
Snakebite envenomings constitute a serious public health problem on a global level, especially in Africa,
Asia and Latin America. In our Latin American region, it is estimated that at least 70,000 snakebite
cases occur ...
Infectious diarrheas of infants and young children
(1985)
Acute diarrhea' disease was once attributed to "indigestion." Although
shigellosis, cholera, salmonellosis, giardiasis, and amebiasis have long
been recognized as distinct clinical entities, it was not too long ago ...
Clinical and electrophysiological characteristics of autosomal recessive axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (ARCMT2B) that maps to chromosome 19q13.3
(Neurimuscular Disorder 14 (5) 301-306, 2004)
Cbarcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) comprises a heterogeneous group of hereditary motor and sensory peripheral neuropathies. The
autosomal recessive axonal form of CMT (ARCMT2) is ram. Eight patients of a large consanguineous ...
Arboviral encephalitis in Costa Rican horses: 2009-2016
(2016-12)
Arbovirus of the genus Alphavirus and Flavivirus
can cause febrile illness and sometimes neurological disease
in both humans and animals. West Nile Virus (WNV), Eastern
Equine Encephalitis Virus (EEEV), Western Equine ...
Infection, malnutrition and growth
(1990)
The concomitant appearance of famine and pestilence has been documented in classical religious texts since the beginning of written history. But it was not until recently that the inter-relationships between infection and ...