Chronic infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major and growing public health concern worldwide, including in Latin America. With more efficacious therapies becoming available, decision-makers will require accurate estimates of disease prevalence to assess the potential impact of new treatments. However, few estimates of the epidemiologic burden, either overall or by country, are availabl...

American trypanosomiasis, or Chagas disease, a zoonosis caused by Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), is endemic in Latin America and ten million people are estimated to be infected (Araújo et al 2009, World Health Organization (WHO), 2010). In the past decades, Chagas disease has been increasingly detected in other non-endemic countries such as Canada, the United States of America, Australia, Japan ...

The importance of supermarkets in the world food economy has increased radically since the early 1990s. They are now major sellers and buyers of food items not only in developed but also in developing countries. Urbanization and the liberalization of the services sector have been important facilitators of this process. Supermarkets have a significant impact on both producers and consumers. They...

This review discusses the epidemiology of the most clinically relevant opportunistic fungal infections in Latin America, including candidiasis, cryptococcosis, trichosporonosis, aspergillosis, and fusariosis. The epidemiologic features, including incidence, of some of these mycoses are markedly different in Latin America than they are in other parts of the world. The most consistent epidemiolog...

Latin America, the vast geopolitical region from Mexico to Cape Horn at the tip of South America, evokes images of the rain forests of the Amazon and snowcapped peaks of the Andes, ancient Incan and Mayan civilizations, Spanish and Portuguese colonialism, and iconic cities like Rio de Janeiro. Biological research in Latin America has traditionally focused on disciplines such as physiology, phar...

In response to slowing growth, intensifying competition in their traditional wireless voice, text markets with an eye toward increasing revenues from offering a bundle of mobile and fixed-line voice, data, text, and video services to subscribers, management at Telefonica and America Movil have restructured their companies and reconsidered their internationalization strategies. This paper focuse...

Components of (co)variance and genetic parameters were estimated by REML procedures from first lactation mature equivalent Holstein milk records from 54,604 Colombian, Mexican, and Puerto Rican cows and 198,079 US cows. The objective was to determine the cause of heterogeneous daughter response to sire selection for milk yield between the regions. Data from Latin America were partitioned by cou...