Browsing by Subject "Peru"
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A One-Health Approach to Understanding the Epidemiology of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
(2021)American cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a severely understudied and neglected“disease of poverty” widespread throughout Peru. Transmission dynamics of CL are complex, requiring sandfly vectors and mammalian reservoir hosts ... -
Anemia Etiology in the Peruvian Amazon: a cross-sectional study
(2019)Background: Understanding the multifactorial causes of anemia on a population level is important for creating effective interventions that mitigate poor health outcomes associated with anemia, particularly in regions where ... -
Anthropology. New World monkey origins.
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Anxious Citizenship: Insecurity, Apocalypse and War Memories in Peru's Andes
(2007-05-10)The war between the Peruvian state and the Maoist Shining Path rebels began in the Department of Ayacucho, an area with a majority of indigenous Quechua- speaking peasant villages. After twenty years of violence ... -
Application of Global Value Chains to Seafood Sustainability: Lessons from the mahi mahi industries of Ecuador and Peru
(2014-04-25)Fish products have become the most traded food commodities worldwide but wild fish stocks face ever-increasing pressure from rising demand (Smith et al., 2010). Over 75% of the world’s fisheries are currently either fully ... -
Concordance Between the Generation 3 Point-of-Care Tampon (Pocket) Digital Colposcope and Standard-of-Care Colposcope Using Acetic Acid and Lugol’s Iodine Images in Lima, Peru
(2017)Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of death for women worldwide with 85% of deaths occurring in low and middle-income countries, despite being both preventable and treatable if detected early enough. The burden ... -
Distribution, Transport, and Control of Mercury Released from Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Madre de Dios, Peru
(2016)Mercury (Hg) is a globally circulating heavy metal released through both natural and anthropogenic sources. The largest anthropogenic source of mercury to the global atmosphere is artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM). ... -
Economic Valuation of Environmental Impacts of a 2D Seismic Survey in the Marañon River Basin, Peru
(2014-04-25)This study seeks to estimate in monetary terms the impacts on the ecosystem services of a 2D seismic Project in the rainforest region of Peru. Economic valuation of the environmental impacts of land use projects is an important ... -
Effects of Toxic Metal Exposures and Their Mixtures on Adverse Health Outcomes in the Peruvian Amazon
(2022)Non-essential trace metals (lead, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium) are ubiquitous in our environment and have overlapping routes of exposure, yet mixed trace metal exposures are rarely considered in epidemiological studies. ... -
Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures.
(PloS one, 2011-01)<h4>Background</h4>Species may respond to a warming climate by moving to higher latitudes or elevations. Shifts in geographic ranges are common responses in temperate regions. For the tropics, latitudinal temperature gradients ... -
Factors Associated with Distribution of Leishmaniasis Disease and Vectors in Madre de Dios, Peru
(2015)While the Madre de Dios department of Peru has the nation's highest leishmaniasis incidence, limited research on the disease and its sand fly vector exists in the region. Considering the diverse and adaptive nature of sand ... -
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: global prices, deforestation, and mercury imports.
(PLoS One, 2011-04-19)Many factors such as poverty, ineffective institutions and environmental regulations may prevent developing countries from managing how natural resources are extracted to meet a strong market demand. Extraction for some ... -
Habitat Quality and Integrated Connectivity Analysis for Callicebus oenanthe in San Martin, Peru
(2015-04-24)The San Martín department of north central Peru is experiencing some of the highest ongoing deforestation rates in South America. The San Martín titi monkey (Callicebus oenanthe) is a critically endangered endemic to this ... -
Improved connectivity analysis using multiple low-cost paths to evaluate habitat for the endangered San Martin titi monkey (Callicebus oenanthe) in north-central Peru
(2017-04-28)Graph theoretic evaluations of habitat connectivity often rely upon least cost path analyses to determine the connectedness of any two habitat patches, based on an underlying cost surface. I present two improvements upon ... -
Malaria Risk Factors in the Peruvian Amazon: A Multilevel Analysis
(2012)A multilevel analysis of malaria risk factors was conducted using data gathered from community-wide surveillance along the Iquitos-Mazan Road and Napo River in Loreto, Peru. In total, 1650 individuals nested within 338 households ... -
Measuring The Effects of Mining on Peru's Public Health: Is The Apurimac Region Prepared To Assess Heavy Metal Exposure?
(2016-04-27)Peru’s Ministry of Health has approached Duke University because it seeks help with evaluating whether heavy metals exposure (in mining regions) is associated with adverse health outcomes. To aid in this effort, I have ... -
Migration Typologies Predict Malaria Incidence in the Peruvian Amazon: A Prospective Cohort Study
(2021)Background: Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum contribute a high burden of disease in the Peruvian Amazon. Migration is an important risk factor for malaria, as travel along the river systems accounts for the vast ... -
Oil and gas projects in the Western Amazon: threats to wilderness, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples.
(PLoS One, 2008-08-13)BACKGROUND: The western Amazon is the most biologically rich part of the Amazon basin and is home to a great diversity of indigenous ethnic groups, including some of the world's last uncontacted peoples living in voluntary ... -
Parvimico materdei gen. et sp. nov.: A new platyrrhine from the Early Miocene of the Amazon Basin, Peru.
(Journal of human evolution, 2019-09)Three field seasons of exploration along the Río Alto Madre de Dios in Peruvian Amazonia have yielded a fauna of micromammals from a new locality AMD-45, at ∼12.8°S. So far we have identified the new primate described here ... -
Portable Pocket colposcopy performs comparably to standard-of-care clinical colposcopy using acetic acid and Lugol's iodine as contrast mediators: an investigational study in Peru.
(BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology, 2018-09)<h4>Objective</h4>Our goal was to develop a tele-colposcopy platform for primary-care clinics to improve screening sensitivity and access. Specifically, we developed a low-cost, portable Pocket colposcope and evaluated its ...
