*A contribution from the Estación Experimental Agricola en Tingo Maria, Peru, a technical agricultural service organization for the Oriente of Peru, operated jointly by the Dirección de Colonización y Asuntos Orientales, Ministry of Agriculture of Peru, and by the Ofläce of Foreign Agricultural Relations, U. S. Department of Agriculture. This study was made possible by funds provided through th...

Cohort Profile: The PERU MIGRANT Study– A prospective cohort study of rural dwellers, urban dwellers and rural-to-urban migrants in Peru Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco, Andrea Ruiz-Alejos, Antonio Bernabé-Ortiz, Robert H Gilman, Liam Smeeth and J Jaime Miranda* CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population H...

Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) has been responsible for hundreds of thousands of human and equine cases of severe disease in the Americas. A passive surveillance study was conducted in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador to determine the arboviral etiology of febrile illness. Patients with suspected viral-associated, acute, undifferentiated febrile illness of <7 days duration were enrolled i...

Examination of over 1,400 specimens of the neotropical genus Metaleptobasis Calvert, 1907, including primary types or paratypes of 18 of the 20 currently available species names and large series of specimens including pairs in tandem and copula, allowed me to unequivocally associate older names with species, distinguish between specific and intraspecific variability, associate both sexes for ea...

1 Scientific Society of Medical Students (‘‘SOCEMCH’’), ‘‘Alberto Hurtado’’ School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, 2 School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, 3 School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, 4 Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, U...

The occurrence and distribution of Vibrio cholerae in sea water and plankton along the coast of Peru were studied from October 1997 to June 2000, and included the 1997-98 El Niño event. Samples were collected at four sites in coastal waters off Peru at monthly intervals. Of 178 samples collected and tested, V. cholerae O1 was cultured from 10 (5.6%) samples, and V. cholerae O1 was detected by d...

Newcastle disease (ND) is one of the most important diseases of poultry, negatively affecting poultry production worldwide. The disease is caused by Newcastle disease virus (NDV) or avian paramyxovirus type 1 (APMV-1), a negative-sense single-stranded RNA virus of the genus Avulavirus, family Paramyxoviridae. Although all NDV isolates characterized to date belong to a single serotype of APMV-1,...

The public sectors of developing countries require strengthened capacity in health informatics. In Peru, where formal university graduate degrees in biomedical and health informatics were lacking until recently, the AMAUTA Global Informatics Research and Training Program has provided research and training for health professionals in the region since 1999. The Fogarty International Center suppor...

The B-Peru allele of the maize b regulatory gene is unusual relative to most b alleles in that it is expressed in the aleurone layer of the seed. It is also expressed in a subset of plant vegetative tissues. Transgenic maize plants containing the B-Peru gene with the first 710 bases of upstream sequence conferred the same levels of aleurone expression as nontransgenic B-Peru plants, but no pigm...

Haplotype and gene network analyses were performed on mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I and cytochrome b gene sequences of Lutzomyia (Lu.) ayacuchensis populations from Andean areas of Ecuador and southern Peru where the sand fly species transmit Leishmania (Leishmania) mexicana and Leishmania (Viannia) peruviana, respectively, and populations from the northern Peruvian Andes, for which transm...