Giardia duodenalis is one of the most prevalent human intestinal parasite, with children living in developing countries being particularly at risk of infection. The occurrence and molecular diversity of G. duodenalis was ...

Describir y analizar la carga financiera del cuidado familiar de los enfermos crónicos en la región andina colombiana. Materiales y métodos: este estudio es parte del Programa para la Reducción de la carga de enfermedades ...

Introduction: Caregiver burden has proved to be a variable that is related to gender factors, the functionality of the care recipient, the time spent on care, among others. Additional research to determine if the burden ...

The Rallidae is a widely distributed family in the planet, with a high proportion of endangered species and limited information on reproductive biology. Porphyriops melanops bogotensis is an endangered and isolated endemic ...

The Spot-flanked Gallinule Porphyriops melanops bogotensis is a subspecies endemic to the Cundinamarca-Boyacá highland plateau. It is critically endangered due to wetlands deterioration and it has been suggested that ...

Background We describe the database of trees and shrubs of tropical dry forest patches of the Magdalena upper river basin in Colombia, preserved in the Herbarium of Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales. The ...

The Spot-flanked Gallinule Porphyriops melanops bogotensis is a subspecies endemic to the Cundinamarca-Boyacá highland plateau. It is critically endangered due to wetlands deterioration and it has been suggested that ...

The aim of this study was to determine the presence of antibodies against rotavirus in pig sera obtained from semi-technical farms in Cundinamarca, Colombia. For this, 170 samples from various age groups were processed, ...

The intra-species genetic diversity of Cryptosporidium parvum in dairy cattle farms in the central area of Colombia was investigated using a multilocus fragment typing approach with nine variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) ...

Fecal specimens from 432 pre-weaned calves younger than 35 days were collected over a 2-year period (2010–2012) from 74 dairy cattle farms in the central area of Colombia. These samples were microscopically examined for ...