a Department of Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 104 South Rd., Mitchell Hall, CB #3315, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315, USA b Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science, 5241 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015-1305, USA c Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, 1040 E. 4th Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA d Department of G...

With no vaccine or medicine specifically designed to treat Dengue, attention naturally shifts to prevention. Minimizing the risk of the disease equates to minimizing the exposure to aedes aegypti. Getis, Morrison, Gray, and Scott conducted a spatial study of the distribution of the aedes aegypti in Iquitos, Peru, a city of about 345,000 people 120m above sea level in the Amazon basin area of Pe...

Department of International Development, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, University of Warwick, Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, Warwick, UK, Instituto de Investigación Nutric...

The genotypes of Mycobacterium leprae isolates originating from Mexico, Peru and Paraguay were analysed for the polymorphism of short tandem repeats in the rpoT gene. The genotype with four copies of the six-base tandem repeats in the rpoT gene was prominently predominant in Mexico, but the genotype of all isolates from Peru and Paraguay contained three copies of the six-base tandem repeats. Th...

A second species of Amblyodus Westwood, 1878, Amblyodus castroisp. n., is described from the northern South America based on 12 specimens from Brazil and Peru (Amazonian subregion). The new species is here compared with the type species of the genus, Amblyodus taurus Westwood, 1878 and both species and their male genitalia are illustrated. Diagnostic characters for the genus are discussed, espe...

The paper presents and reflects on multidisciplinary research into the relationship between global designs of development and the stated priorities of poor people living in Central Peru. Global designs are first presented through an analysis of four shared mental models of Peru as a welfare regime. A eudaimonic model of subjective wellbeing is then presented, based on data collected from inhabi...

We report a cluster of imported vivax malaria in three of five Chilean travelers returning from Peru in March 2015. The cluster highlights the high risk of malaria in the Loreto region in northern Peru, which includes popular destinations for international nature and adventure tourism. According to local surveillance data, Plasmodium vivax is predominating, but Plasmodium falciparum is also pre...

The ichneumonid genus Habronyx is recorded for the first time from Peru and Ecuador, and three new species are described and figured-Habronyx (Camposcopus) flavus Alvarado, new species, H. (Habronyx) nigrofasciata Alvarado, new species, and H. (H.) saqsaywaman Alvarado, new species. Hadronyx (H.) punensis is recorded for the first time in Peru. Habronyx (H.) nigrofasciata was reared from Paracl...

nosed at the Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplá.sicasof Peru between 1952 and 1964. Sixty-one of these (40.7%) were under 15 years of age. The proportion of cases in the 1st decade of life (30%) is much higher than that found in other reported series. The male/female ratio parallels that in all other reported series, both for patients under 15 years and for the older group. Although the...

This article examines the politics of midwifery and the persecution of untitled female assistants in childbirth in early republican Peru. A close reading of late colonial publications and the works of Benita Paulina Cadeau Fessel, a French obstetriz director of a midwifery school in Lima, demonstrates both trans-Atlantic and local influences in the campaign against untitled midwives. Cadeau Fes...