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Paracoccidiodomicosis pulmonar
(Gaceta Médica de Costa Rica, vol. 7, n. 1, enero-junio 2005, 2005)
La paracoccidioidomicosis es una enfermedad que puede afectar varios órganos, en el 75% de los casos al pulmón, y tiene como agente etiológico al Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, un hongo dimórfico cuya forma parasitaria es ...
Exploring why Costa Rica outperforms the United States in life expectancy: A tale of two inequality gradients
(2016)
Mortality in the United States is 18% higher than in Costa Rica among adult men and 10% higher among middle-aged women, despite the several times higher income and health expenditures of the United States. This comparison ...
Histopathological and biochemical alterations induced by intramuscular injection of Bothrops asper (terciopelo) venom in mice
(1989)
The local and systemic pathological changes induced by an i.m. injection of 100 micrograms of Bothrops asper venom in mice were studied histologically and by following the changes in serum levels of enzymes, proteins, ATP ...
Disease and weight loss: a prospective study of middle-aged and older adults in Costa Rica and England
(2015)
Objective. To determine whether disease predicts weight loss in population-based studies, as this may confound the relationship between weight and mortality. Materials and methods. We used longitudinal data from the Costa ...
Cancer in Costa Rica
(1989-02-01)
Data from the national tumor registry of Costa Rica for the yeas
1979-1983 have been used to calculate incidence rates for the major
cancer sites by age, sex, urban-rural residence, and geographic region.
Recent trends ...
Cáncer: Mortalidad e incidencia en Costa Rica
(1986)
Los patrones de morbilidad y mortalidad por cáncer varían considerablemente entre países; sin embargo, las razones para explicar este fenómeno no parecen claras. En algunos casos influyen los servicios de salud, pero la ...
‘Candidatus Rickettsia nicoyana’: A novel Rickettsia species isolated from Ornithodoros knoxjonesi in Costa Rica
(2017-06)
Rickettsiae are intracellular bacteria commonly associated with hematophagous arthropods. Most of them have been described in hard ticks, but some have been found in soft ticks. Here we report the detection and isolation ...
Estudio de Puriscal VIII. Efecto de intervenciones hospitalarias sobre la lactancia y la salud en el periodo neonatal
(Revista del Hospital Nacional de Niños 17(1y2):99-116, 1982)
Epidemiologic observations during 1976-1980 in the manternity of San Juan de Dios Hospital have shown benefice, effects of the following interventions: early mother-infant stimulation, rooming-in , breast-feeding, and ...