1. Professor of Medicine, Unit of Gastroenterology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Gastroenterologist, Clínica Fundadores, Clínica Carlos Lleras Restrepo and Fundación Hospital San Carlos, Bogota, Colombia 2. Internal Medicine Resident, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia. ........................................ Received: 21-07-09 Accepted: 18-08-09 Summary Bilirubin is more ...

INTRODUCTION Dengue is an escalating public health concern in Latin American Countries with a dramatic increase of cases reported during the past decade. The objectives of this study were to identify and provide insights into current management and attitudes toward dengue and to understand attitudes to vaccination and current behaviors to prevent dengue in Mexico and Colombia. METHODS This wa...

Naser Ansari-Pour, Yves Moñino, Constanza Duque, Natalia Gallego, Gabriel 4 Bedoya, Mark G Thomas and Neil Bradman 5 6 7 1 Faculty of New Sciences and Technology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 8 LLACAN, CNRS, Villejuif, Paris, France 9 3 Universidad de Antioquia UdeA, Calle 70 No 52-21 Medellín Colombia 10 4 Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Sede Medellín, Colombia 11 5 Institución Univ...

1 Internal Medicine, Resident in Gastroenterology at the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Hospital Militar Central. Bogotá, Colombia. 2 Internal Medicine, Gastroenterologist, Chief of the Department of Gastroenterology at Hospital Militar Central, Professor of Medicine at the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. Bogotá, Colombia. 3 Internal Medicine, Gastroenterologist, Professor of Medicine at...

While conflict-induced forced migration is a global phenomenon, the situation in Colombia, South America, is distinctive. Colombia has ranked either first or second in the number of internally displaced persons for 10 years, a consequence of decades of armed conflict compounded by high prevalence of drug trafficking. The displacement trajectory for displaced persons in Colombia proceeds through...

Four hundred 1-d-old Cobb broilers were distributed in 3 groups: group A comprised broilers maintained under natural hypobaric hypoxia (Bogotá, Colombia); group B comprised broilers under relative normoxia (Villavicencio, Colombia); and group C comprised broilers maintained at 460 m above sea level (Villavicencio, Colombia) from d 1 to 25 of age, and then moved to 2,638 m above sea level (Bogot...

Leishmania infantum and Trypanosoma cruzi are zoonotic parasites that are endemic throughout many parts of Latin America. Infected dogs play an important role in transmission of both parasites to humans. A serological survey of Leishmania and Trypanosoma infection was conducted on 365 dogs from São Paulo, Brazil and Bogatá, Colombia, South America. Serum samples were examined by the indirect im...

Writing has dramatically evolved in the world; however, qualification of scientific production in Colombia has not, including the improper use of decree 1444/93 and 1279/02. The last of these decrees authorized Colciencias, the Colombian government institute created to support scientific research in Colombia, to establish rules for its implementation. Colciencias decided to evaluate scientific ...

Colombia is a country located in the northwest corner of South America (Fig. 1). Initially founded in 1717 as the Viceroyalty of New Grenada, it underwent many transitions in its government and territory after winning its independence from Spain in 1819, finally becoming the Republic of Colombia in 1886 (CIA, World Fact Book: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/co.h...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: It has been suggested that probiotics may decrease infant mortality and nosocomial infections because of their ability to suppress colonization and translocation of bacterial pathogens in the gastrointestinal tract. We designed a large doubleblinded placebo-controlled trial using Lactobacillus reuteri to test this hypothesis in preterm infants. METHODS: Eligible infant...