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Department of Oncology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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National Unit of Pediatric Oncology, Francisco Marroquin University School of Medicine, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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The Vanderbilt Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
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Neurology Service, Hospital Santo Tomás, Panama City 0819-03752, Panama.
School of Medicine, Universidad Interamericana de Panamá, Panama City 0830-00929, Panama.
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Neurology Service, Hospital San Juan de Dios CCSS, San Jose 1475-1000, Costa Rica.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Neurology Service, Hospital Horacio Oduber, Oranjestad 569, Aruba.
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Neurology Service, Complejo Hospitalario Dr. Arnulfo Arias Madrid CSS, Panama City 0831-01654, Panama.
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Neurology Service, Hospital Regional Rafael Hernández CSS, David City 0816-06808, Panama.
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Climate adaptation corridors are widely recognized as important for promoting biodiversity resilience under climate change. Central America is part of the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot, but there ...
Biomass cookstove food preparation is linked to aero-digestive cancers, mediated by ingested and inhaled carcinogens (e.g., heterocyclic amines, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons). We investigated ...
Toxoplasma gondii is a global protozoan pathogen. Clonal lineages predominate in Europe, North America, Africa, and China, whereas highly recombinant parasites are endemic in South/Central America. Fa...
The present situation of neuropathology practice in the Central American region has not been addressed in the past. These are low middle-income countries, and therefore, many do not have a basic immun...
This article provides an overview of the development of exotic animal medicine in Latin America (LATAM), highlighting its historical evolution, current evidence, and future considerations. The practic...
Central America and the Caribbean are regularly battered by megadroughts, heavy rainfall, heat waves, and tropical cyclones. Although 21st-century climate change is expected to increase the frequency,...
Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan parasite that causes Chagas disease in humans. Transmission of T cruzi by triatomine vectors is dependent on diverse environmental and socioeconomic factors. Climate c...
Subseasonal rainfall forecast skill is critical to support preparedness for hydrometeorological extremes. We assess how a process-informed evaluation, which subsamples forecasting model members based ...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease following Alzheimer's disease. Nearly 30 causative genes have been identified for PD and related disorders. However, most o...
Our goal was to assess the spectrum and frequency of pathogenic variants in known PD genes in familial PD patients from Latin America....
We selected 335 PD patients with a family history of PD from the Latin American Research Consortium on the Genetics of PD. We capture-sequenced the coding regions of 26 genes related to neurodegenerat...
We identified pathogenic variants in 41 individuals (12.7%) in FBXO7, GCH1, LRRK2, PARK7, PINK1, PLA2G6, PRKN, SNCA, and TARDBP, GBA1 risk variants in 25 individuals (7.7%), and variants of uncertain ...
This is the first screening of known PD genes in a large cohort of patients with familial PD from Latin America. There were substantial differences in the spectrum of variants observed in comparison t...
We quantify the mortality burden and economic loss attributable to nonoptimal temperatures for cold and heat in the Central and South American countries in the Multi-City Multi-Country (MCC) Collabora...
We collected data for 66 locations from 13 countries in Central and South America to estimate location-specific temperature-mortality associations using time-series regression with distributed lag non...
The mortality impact of cold varied widely by country, from 9.64% in Uruguay to 0.22% in Costa Rica. The heat-attributable fraction for mortality ranged from 1.41% in Paraguay to 0.01% in Ecuador. Loc...
Most of the mortality burden for Central and South American countries is caused by cold compared to heat, generating annual economic losses of $2.1 billion and $290.7 million, respectively. Public hea...