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ENTEROPARASITOSIS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN BAHIA: PARASITOLOGY LEARNING
(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017)
Plasmodium vivax hospitalizations in a monoendemic malaria region: severe vivax malaria?
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2014)
Severe malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax is no longer considered rare. To describe its clinical features, we performed a retrospective case control study in the subregion of Luciano Castillo Colonna, Piura, Peru, an area ...
Kato-Katz and Lumbreras rapid sedimentation test to evaluate helminth prevalence in the setting of a school-based deworming program
(Taylor and Francis, 2016)
The sensitivity of the Kato-Katz test is suboptimal for the evaluation of intestinal helminth prevalence. Moreover, during mass deworming, as helminth egg burden decreases, the sensitivity is likely to decrease. The ...
Molecular Epidemiology of Trypanosomatids and Trypanosoma cruzi in Primates from Peru
(Springer, 2017)
We determined the prevalence rate and risk of infection of Trypanosoma cruzi and other trypanosomatids in Peruvian non-human primates (NHPs) in the wild (n = 126) and in different captive conditions (n = 183). Blood samples ...
Spatio-temporal analysis of malaria incidence in the Peruvian Amazon Region between 2002 and 2013
(Springer Nature, 2017)
Malaria remains a major public health problem in the Peruvian Amazon where the persistence of high-risk transmission areas (hotspots) challenges the current malaria control strategies. This study aimed at identifying ...
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding cystic echinococcosis and sheep herding in Peru: a mixed-methods approach
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: The parasitic disease, cystic echinococcosis (CE), is prevalent in low-income, livestock-raising communities and 2000 new people will be diagnosed this year in South America alone. The disease usually passes ...