Birth weight at high altitudes in Peru (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether birth weights are lower at high altitudes, and whether gestational age at birth and a population's length of residence mitigate the effect of high altitude. METHODS: Th
Reproducibility of pacing profiles in elite swimmers (Publications)
PURPOSE: To analyze the reproducibility of pacing in elite swimmers during competitions and to compare heats and finals within 1 event. METHODS: Finals and heats of 158 male swimmers (age 22.8 +/- 2.9
Tuberculosis in pediatric antiretroviral therapy programs in low- and middle-income countries: diagnosis and screening practices (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The global burden of childhood tuberculosis (TB) is estimated to be 0.5 million new cases per year. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected children are at high risk for TB. Diagnosis
Trematode infections: liver and lung flukes (Publications)
Food-borne trematodiases are an emerging public health problem in Southeast Asia and Latin America and of growing importance for travel clinics in Europe and North America. The disease is caused by ch
Cycloheximide prevents production of arresting, a fraction of 30-50 kDa obtained from seminiferous tubule conditioned medium (Publications)
AIM: To evaluate the effect of a protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide on arresting activity in spermatogenesis and sperm count in male rats. METHODS: The study used seminiferous tubule (ST) segme
Antiparasitic drugs for paediatrics: systematic review, formulations, pharmacokinetics, safety, efficacy and implications for control (Publications)
SUMMARYDrug development for paediatric applications entails a number of challenges, such as the wide age spectrum covered - from birth to adolescence - and developmental changes in physiology during b