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Materias / palabras clave: Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women. Advances in medical technology have made early diagnosis possible. However, as with many other diseases, the diagnosis of breast cancer may be delayed due to h...

Abstract Background The risk of outbreaks escalating into pandemics has soared with globalization. Therefore, understanding transmission mechanisms of infectious diseases has become critical to formulating global public ...

Abstract Representatives of the families Didelphidae, Echimyidae, Cricetidae, and Muridae have been identified as significant reservoirs or amplifiers of zoonotic agents. This study aimed to investigate the molecular occ...

Azara dentata Ruiz & Pav. is a small Chilean native plant from Patagonia, a producer of small white reddish berries. For the first time, the proximal analysis of the fruits, phenolic fingerprinting, the antioxidant activ...

Abstract Background The present goal of the World Health Organization (WHO) 2021–2030 roadmap for Neglected Tropical Diseases is to eliminate schistosomiasis as a public health problem, and reduce its prevalence of hea...

Abstract Since the twenty first century, the outbreaks of global infectious diseases have caused several public health emergencies of international concern, imposing an enormous impact on population health, the economy, ...

Abstract Despite a proliferation of the United Nations General Assembly high-level meetings on a range of health issues and developmental challenges, global funding continues to flow disproportionately to HIV and materna...

Background Strongyloidiasis and Chagas disease are endemic in northern Argentina. In this study we evaluate the association between S. stercoralis and T. cruzi infections in villages with diverse prevalence levels for th...

Chagas disease, caused by the unicellular parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, claims 50,000 lives annually and is the leading cause of infectious myocarditis in the world. As current antichagastic therapies like nifurtimox and b...

Zoonotic canine leishmaniosis, caused by Leishmania infantum, is a fatal disease worldwide in both humans and the reservoir host, dogs. The primary route of transmission is via sand fly bite. Vertical, transplacental, tr...

In China, schistosomiasis is targeted for elimination. As the country approaches elimination, it is critical to evaluate how the dynamics of transmission are changing in remaining pockets of disease. We have been studyin...

ObjectiveThis study aimed to investigate the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of human brucellosis and quantify the exposure-lag-response relationships of key socioeconomic and livestock production drivers in Ningxia, China,...

Clinical and subclinical Shigella infections among children living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been associated with long-term adverse effects such as impaired linear growth. The mechanism for the imp...

Materias / palabras clave: elephantiasis, river blindness, leprosy, hookworm, schistosomiasis, african sleeping sickness; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; Medicine: Public aspects ...

Materias / palabras clave: toxins, antivenoms, toxin derivatives, tropical diseases, neglected diseases, venomous animals; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; Medicine: Public aspects...