Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas-Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, United States, 4 Spezielle Zoologie und Biodiversitätsforschung, Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany, Center ...

A. Durán, A. Conde, A. Gómez Coedo, T. Dorado, C. Garcı́a and S. Ceré Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio (CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas (CSIC), Gregorio del Amo 8, 28040 Madrid, Spain Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellı́n, A.A. 3840 Medellı́n, Colombia Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnologı́a de Materiales. UNMdP...

Alcohol-associated injury visits to emergency departments in Pasto, Colombia in 2006 Victoria Espitia-Hardemana; Dan Hungerfordb; Holly A. Hilla; Carmen E. Betancourtc; Alba N. Villarealc; Luz D. Caycedoc; Carlos Portilloc a Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA b Division of Injury Respon...

Six new species of the Neotropical pergid genus Lagideus are described and illustrated: Lagideus boyaca, L. magdalena, L. schmidti, and L. flavus from Colombia and L. tapanti, and L. isidro from Costa Rica. Lagideus romius Smith is newly recorded from Colombia and the female lancet is illustrated. Females are described for the first time for Lagideus longicus Smith from Costa Rica and L. albita...

Mental health law in Colombia has evolved over the past 50 years, in concert with worldwide recognition and prioritisation of mental healthcare. Laws and policies have become increasingly sophisticated to accommodate the ongoing transformations throughout Colombia's healthcare system and improvements in mental health screening, treatment and supportive care. Mental health law and policy develop...

AIM to estimate the population attributable risk of consumption of red and processed meat for colorectal cancer in Colombia. METHODS to model the expected incidence of colorectal cancer in the hypothetical situation of no red and processed meat consumption in Colombia, for the year 2010. A dynamic macrosimulation model, PREVENT 3.01, was used to integrate available cancer incidence, meat cons...

The oral agent miltefosine has demonstrated a >95% cure rate in Indian visceral leishmaniasis. We performed a large, placebo-controlled study of miltefosine therapy (2.5 mg/kg per day orally for 28 days) against cutaneous leishmaniasis in Colombia and Guatemala. In regions in Colombia where Leishmania vianna panamensis is common, the per-protocol cure rates for miltefosine and placebo were 91% ...

Pentodontini is the most diverse tribe of Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), and most of the genera are restricted to a single biogeographic region. In this work, the taxonomic composition of the Pentodontini in Colombia was determined, and genera and species were diagnosed based on external morphology and male genitalia. Records of 1,580 specimens from 31 departments and 398 localities in ...

Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus has been identified for the first time in the municipality of La Tebaida (Quindio department of Colombia), an area with active transmission of dengue fever by Ae. (Stegomyia) aegypti. Specimens of Ae. albopictus were detected in a tire used as an ovitrap in a remnant of bamboo plantation in a rural area of the municipality of La Tebaida; Ae. aegypti presented co-occ...

Five Anopheles marajoara Galvão and Damasceno populations, representing diverse ecological conditions, were sampled throughout Colombia and analyzed using nine hypervariable DNA microsatellite loci. The overall genetic diversity (H = 0.58) was lower than that determined for some Brazilian populations using the same markers. The Caquetá population (Colombia) had the lowest gene diversity (H = 0....