[PDF] Top 20 Plague in the Americas: An historical and quasi-epidemiological survey

... Another factor is the custom of eating animals found dead, which may set up a septicemia with rapid pulmonary localization, so that in some instances it is dif[r] ... See full document

... It also sent a physician (Dur&n) to study plague bacteriology io Santiago for three months at its expense. It is interesting to find one of the Board members [r] ... See full document

... of Sao Paulo and the Manguinhos (now Oswaldo Cruz) Institute in Rio de Janeiro.73 Oswaldo Cruz reported that the use of serum reduced plague mortality 50 percent.‘* De [r] ... See full document

... Referencea to plague in New York concern the arrival in that port on November 18.1899, of the British stewnship J. TayZor, with two cases of bubonic plague on board. The steward, i[r] ... See full document

... N. desertorum) ; kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ordii) ; and cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus nuttallii). Dead cats have been reported in connection with plague outbreaks in Ar[r] ... See full document

... around Taco-Taco. There were cases in Lagunita, Cruz Grande, Rumicancha, Carrillos, Guayavillas, Campanario, Totora, Taco-Taco, Cañas, and San Francisco. No domestic r[r] ... See full document

... The unknown and most im- portant factor is whether the infection has since maintained itself in the wild rodents or has been periodically transmitted to them by[r] ... See full document

... clinicsl diagnosis of plague was made, in ccnsultation with a local physician, in s human case, which died and presented at autcpsy findings which were sccepted [r] ... See full document

... debated. The disease was considered to have originated from the Americas, discovered at the end of the fifteenth century by the first Spanish conquerors ...[12]. The first ... See full document

... Over the past decades, violence became a major public health concern ...worldwide. In 1993, the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization declared the prevention of ... See full document

... products and services. This could prove to be quite a task for the typical Nigeria firm, with a practically unknown brand name and weak advertising ...Goldstein and O’Connor (2001) state that ... See full document

... between the prevalence of luorosis and luoridated water: muni- cipalities without this had lower ...when the data for 2003 and 2010 are compared (Figure 3), the inconsistencies become ... See full document

... In the northern and northeastern regions of Brazil, a series of childhood cryptococcosis cases have been re- ported with a high prevalence rate: 32% in the state of Bahia (Darzé et ... See full document

... ABSTRACT: An epidemiological survey aiming to determine the occurrence of anti-Leptospira antibodies and to identify risk factors was carried out in horses of the Pajeú ... See full document

... questionnaire survey of 420 cattle attendants and owners in the farms showed that large number of them have no knowledge of ...among the farmers and farm ...attendants in ... See full document

... reporting the occurrence of certain diseases or health problems, irrespective of whether the sanitary authorities are informed by health professionals or some other citizen, with the objective of ... See full document

... was an endemic area for the develop- ment of ...conditions in the Asian region, where people lived together with animals, with many carriers of disease, such as rodents, and insects, ... See full document

... of an endemic situation in these areas is due to the breeding of swine under primary ...facilitates the intake of excrement of those chronic carriers of Taenia sp and the ... See full document

... reviewed in order to understand the available information about the building or the cultural heritage and to figure out whether they are registered or ...reviewing the special ... See full document

... enrichment and was incubated for 48h at 35°C. Aliquots were streaked onto Oxford and Palcam agar plates that were incubated at 35°C for 48 ...identification. The tests used were catalase production; ... See full document