| fecal contamination of shanty town toddlers in households with non-corralled poultry, lima, peru. | we used direct observer techniques to measure the frequency with which toddler-aged children were contaminated by poultry feces in homes in a peri-urban shanty town in lima, peru. the mean number of fowl was 5.4 (sd 3.1), with 10.0 (sd 10.7) poultry defecations per 12 hours. toddlers' hand contact with poultry feces occurred a mean of 2.9 (sd 3.0) times/12 hours. a mean of 3.9 (sd 4.6) feces-to-mouth episodes per household/12 hours occurred both by direct hand-to-mouth contamination and indirect ... | 1990 | 2297055 |
| paediatric campylobacter diarrhoea from household exposure to live chickens in lima, peru. | although campylobacter jejuni is a frequent enteropathogen in cases of paediatric diarrhoea in developing countries, its route of transmission is not well understood. an age-matched, case-control study of children with c. jejuni diarrhoea was therefore carried out in lima, peru, from january 1983 to april 1986 to identify the risk factors and vehicles of transmissions. as cases, 104 children less than 3 years of age were selected and compared with controls of the same age with non-gastrointestin ... | 1988 | 3262442 |
| the epidemiology of intestinal microsporidiosis in patients with hiv/aids in lima, peru. | we studied microsporidiosis in human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients in 2 lima hospitals. of 2652 patients, 66% were male, 6% received antiretroviral therapy (art), and the median cd4 lymphocyte count was 131 cells/microl. sixty-seven patients (3%) had microsporidiosis; stool specimens from 56 were identified as having enterocytozoon bieneusi of 10 different genotypes. the 2 most common genotypes, peru-1 and peru-2, were not associated with significant increases in chronic diarrhea; oth ... | 2005 | 15838792 |
| dietary risk factors associated with the transmission of helicobacter pylori in lima, peru. | the factors influencing the risk of acquisition of helicobacter pylori infection are not well established. one hundred four children (0-17 years of age) requiring an endoscopy for the evaluation of gastrointestinal symptoms had demographic and dietary data collected and biopsy specimens of the gastric antrum stained for the identification of h. pylori. the 52 (50%) infected subjects were significantly older than the uninfected ones with no difference in gender, crowding, source of drinking water ... | 1998 | 9790444 |