Hace referencia al tema de la situación de la poblacional del Paraguay, y presenta propuestas de estrategias globales y sectoriales, para la implementación de soluciones a mediano y largo plazo de los problemas de población en Paraguay...
The prevalence intestinal of parasitosis was studied in a population of 150 children, which ages ranged from one to fourteen years, from Guazú-Cuá department of Paraguarí, which is an isolated community with very poor sanitary conditions. Feces from all 150 children were examined by the concentration ...
The nutritional status of the children in the rural community of Guazu-Cuá, Paraguarí Department, Paraguay, was evaluated within the frame of a project on primary health care. The study was carried out twice (July 1989 and July 1990) in children of both sexs with ages from one month to ten years, using...
Strains of Trypanosoma cruzi isolate in Paraguay from patients and vectors were examiqned by restriction endonuclease analysis of K-DNA using Eco RI, Hae III, Hinf I, Msp I. Four different types of schizodeme profiles were identified in 11 isolates. The firs group has much simpler profiles than ther grou...
The microfilaricidal effect if invermectin was studied on Cebus apella infected with dipetalonema gracile in Paraguay. Nine monkeys were treated with ivermectin at the dosage of 200 ug/kg boby wieght by single subcutaneous injection. The significant reduction in microfilarial count after treatament with ...
An epidemiological survey was preformed in 81 children forn a rural town, Escobar, in order to determine the prevalence of the intestinal parasitosis by four different methods. Out of the 81 samples studied, 63 yielded positive parasitosis (77.8 percent). The most frecuent parasites fuond were Blastocist...
The prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection was studied in a population of 158 children, which ages ranged from 4 months to thirteen years, from Guazú-Cuá department of Paraguarí, which is an isolated community within the endemic area for Chagas'disease. Twelve out of 158 ( 7.6 percent) children yie...
twelve cebus apella monkeys experimentally infected with 3 x 10 sobre 5 T. cruzi trypomastigotes Y strain, and treated with different doses of Spirogermanium and Nifurtimox during the acute phase of the infection, were subjected to hemoculture in order to test the sensitivity of this methd in comparsson...
A serological survey for Chagas' diseases has been performed in 300 conscripts belonging to there branches of service of the Armed Forces of Paraguay, in military barracks located in Asunción. An Elisa kit, the Chagas'test kit, developed at IICS, has been used in this study, which revealed 7 percent of ...
A graphic key for the identification of male and female phlebotomines caught in Paraguay was prepared. The objective of this work is to facillitate the identification of these insects by health workers interested in leihmaniasis control...
