| [presence of urban rabies in zulia state, venezuela. years 1996-2006]. | rabies is a zoonotic viral disease and in zulia state, it constitutes a public health problem of a high social impact, due to the report of cases in human beings. in this study, the presence of urban rabies was determined in zulia's state and its distribution was identified according to municipalities and affected species during 1996-2006. in the scope of a descriptive study, a documented revision of zulia's state zoonosis regional coordination registries for the period in study was carried out. ... | 2008 | 19245167 |
| seroepidemiology of toxoplasmosis in women of childbearing age from a marginal community of maracaibo, venezuela. | the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of anti-t. gondii total and igm antibodies in women of childbearing age. one hundred serum samples of women were studied with age range from 11 to 45 years old. samples were chosen by random. the determination of total antibodies was carried out through the indirect hemagglutination technique and igm antibodies by elisa's technique. the statistical analysis was carried out through the chi square and the spearman correlation tests. the theoret ... | 2009 | 19229385 |
| genetic characterization of rabies field isolates from venezuela. | twenty samples from cases of rabies in humans and domestic animals diagnosed in venezuela between 1990 and 1994 and one sample from a vampire bat collected in 1976 were characterized by reactivity to monoclonal antibodies against the viral nucleoprotein and by patterns of nucleotide substitution in the nucleoprotein gene. three antigenic variants were found: 1, 3, and 5. antigenic variant 1 included all samples from dogs and humans infected by contact with rabid dogs. unique substitutions permit ... | 1996 | 8735118 |
| [seroepidemiology of toxoplasmosis in a marginal community of the municipality of maracaibo, zulia state, venezuela]. | the goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of anti-toxoplasma gondii antibodies in a marginal community of the municipality of maracaibo, zulia state, venezuela and if there was a relationship between risk factors and infection. an epidemiological survey of personal data, living sanitary conditions and contact with cats was performed. a collection of 254 blood samples from male and female individuals, with ages ranging from 8 months to 76 years, was studied. anti-toxoplasma gondii re ... | 2001 | 11416977 |