Search Results - "Lanata, C. F."
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Improving household air, drinking water and hygiene in rural Peru: a community-randomized-controlled trial of an integrated environmental home-based intervention package to improve child health
Published in International journal of epidemiology (01-12-2016)“…Diarrhoea and acute lower respiratory infections are leading causes of childhood morbidity and mortality, which can be prevented by simple low-cost…”
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Chimney stoves modestly improved Indoor Air Quality measurements compared with traditional open fire stoves: results from a small-scale intervention study in rural Peru
Published in Indoor air (01-08-2013)“…Nearly half of the world's population depends on biomass fuels to meet domestic energy needs, producing high levels of pollutants responsible for substantial…”
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Validation of Five-Colony Pool Analysis Using Multiplex Real-Time PCR for Detection of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli
Published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology (01-06-2009)“…Five Escherichia coli colonies/patient were studied to evaluate the reliability of a multiplex real-time PCR assay for detection of diarrheagenic Escherichia…”
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Genotypic and Phenotypic Characterization of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Peruvian Children
Published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology (01-09-2010)“…Article Usage Stats Services JCM Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley…”
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A community randomised controlled trial evaluating a home-based environmental intervention package of improved stoves, solar water disinfection and kitchen sinks in rural Peru: Rationale, trial design and baseline findings
Published in Contemporary clinical trials (01-11-2011)“…Abstract Introduction Pneumonia and diarrhoea are leading causes of death in children. There is a need to develop effective interventions. Objective We present…”
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Genetic diversity of locus of enterocyte effacement genes of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli isolated from Peruvian children
Published in Journal of medical microbiology (01-08-2012)“…The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and allele associations of locus of enterocyte effacement encoded esp and tir genes among 181…”
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Allelic variability of critical virulence genes (eae, bfpA and perA) in typical and atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in Peruvian children
Published in Journal of medical microbiology (01-01-2010)“…1 Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru 2 University of Texas School of Public Health,…”
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Phylogenetic relationships of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from Peruvian children
Published in Journal of medical microbiology (01-05-2011)“…The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence, virulence factors (stx, eae, ehxA and astA) and phylogenetic relationships [PFGE and multilocus sequence…”
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Studies of food hygiene and diarrhoeal disease
Published in International journal of environmental health research (01-06-2003)“…Contamination of weaning foods and water with enteropathogenic micro-organisms has been recognised in the past, but its link with the development of diarrhoea…”
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Meeting Report: WHO Workshop on modelling global mortality and aetiology estimates of enteric pathogens in children under five. Cape Town, 28–29th November 2018
Published in Vaccine (26-06-2020)“…Investment in vaccine product development should be guided by up-to-date and transparent global burden of disease estimates, which are also fundamental to…”
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Respiratory symptoms, asthma, exercise test spirometry, and atopy in schoolchildren from a Lima shanty town
Published in Thorax (01-08-2001)“…BACKGROUND Little is known about the associations between symptoms of asthma, pulmonary function tests, and atopy in developing countries. While asthma in…”
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Variation in the costs of delivering routine immunization services in Peru
Published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization (01-09-2004)“…Estimates of vaccination costs usually provide only point estimates at national level with no information on cost variation. In practice, however, such…”
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Randomized, community-based trial of the effect of zinc supplementation, with and without other micronutrients, on the duration of persistent childhood diarrhea in Lima, Peru
Published in The Journal of pediatrics (01-08-1999)“…Objective: To determine whether supplemental zinc, with or without additional micronutrients, affects the severity and duration of persistent childhood…”
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Breast milk or animal-product foods improve linear growth of Peruvian toddlers consuming marginal diets
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition (01-11-1997)“…Although breast-feeding is widely accepted as important for infant health, its benefits during the second year of life have been questioned. We analyzed data…”
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Safety, Immunogenicity, and Protective Efficacy of One and Three Doses of the Tetravalent Rhesus Rotavirus Vaccine in Infants in Lima, Peru
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (01-08-1996)“…An oral rhesus-human rotavirus tetravalent (RRV-TV) vaccine (104 pfu of rhesus rotavirus [type G3]and of 3 human-rhesus reassortants [Gl, G2, and G4]) was…”
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Safety, immunogenicity, and excretion pattern of single-dose live oral cholera vaccine CVD 103-HgR in Peruvian adults of high and low socioeconomic levels
Published in Infection and Immunity (01-09-1993)“…Classifications Services IAI Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Association of breastfeeding and stunting in Peruvian toddlers : An example of reverse causality
Published in International journal of epidemiology (01-04-1997)“…Child feeding recommendations include breastfeeding beyond 12 months, however, some researchers have reported increased rates of malnutrition in breastfed…”
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Molecular epidemiology of Shigella flexneri in a diarrhoea-endemic area of Lima, Peru
Published in Epidemiology and infection (01-04-2004)“…A year-long community-based study of diarrhoeal diseases was conducted in Canto Grande, a periurban community in Lima, Peru. In 109 (34%) houses out of 323…”
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Defecation practices of young children in a Peruvian shanty town
Published in Social science & medicine (1982) (01-08-1999)“…Little is known about feces disposal practices, their determinants and feasibility for change, despite their importance in the control of diarrheal diseases…”
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Methodological and quality issues in epidemiological studies of acute lower respiratory infections in children in developing countries
Published in International journal of epidemiology (01-12-2004)“…Acute respiratory infections are the most important single cause of global burden of disease in young children globally and a major cause of child mortality. A…”
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