Peru

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • CoNaMad-Cohorte de Nacimiento de Madre de Dios /Madre de Dios Birth Cohort to Study Effects of in-utero Trace Metals Exposure in the Southern Peruvian Amazon. 
  • A population-based mercury exposure assessment near an artisanal and small-scale gold mining site in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Adult Exposures to Toxic Trace Elements as Measured in Nails along the Interoceanic Highway in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Air pollution: clean up our skies. 
  • Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining. 
  • An international cluster-randomized quality improvement trial to increase the adherence to evidence-based therapies for acute ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack patients: Rationale and design of the BRIDGE STROKE Trial. 
  • Anthropology. New World monkey origins. 
  • Assessment of Two Diabetes Point-of-care Analyzers Measuring Hemoglobin A1c in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Beta-diversity in tropical forest trees. 
  • Building a platform for translational research in chronic noncommunicable diseases to address population health: lessons from NHLBI supported CRONICAS in Peru. 
  • Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near a gold mining region in Peru. 
  • Comparative effects of vivax malaria, fever, and diarrhea on child growth 
  • Comparison of altitude effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection between rural and urban communities in Peru. 
  • Concentrations of urinary 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine and 8-isoprostane in women exposed to woodsmoke in a cookstove intervention study in San Marcos, Peru. 
  • Culture-based study of endophytes associated with rubber trees in Peru reveals a new class of Pezizomycotina: Xylonomycetes. 
  • Deforestation Due to Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Exacerbates Soil and Mercury Mobilization in Madre de Dios, Peru. 
  • Diagnosis of cystic echinococcosis, central Peruvian Highlands. 
  • Direct observation of hygiene in a Peruvian shantytown: not enough handwashing and too little water. 
  • Diterpenoid, steroid, and triterpenoid agonists of liver X receptors from diversified terrestrial plants and marine sources. 
  • Early social cognition in three cultural contexts. 
  • Economic Burden of Dengue Virus Infection at the Household Level Among Residents of Puerto Maldonado, Peru. 
  • Effect of maternal anemia at high altitude on infant hematocrit and oxygenation. 
  • Effects of Shigella-, Campylobacter- and ETEC-associated diarrhea on childhood growth. 
  • Efficacy of Hair Total Mercury Content as a Biomarker of Methylmercury Exposure to Communities in the Area of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru. 
  • Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures. 
  • Epidemiology of highly endemic multiply antibiotic-resistant shigellosis in children in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Epilepsy and neurocysticercosis: an incidence study in a Peruvian rural population. 
  • Estimations of historical atmospheric mercury concentrations from mercury refining and present-day soil concentrations of total mercury in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Evaluation of Peruvian Government Interventions to Reduce Childhood Anemia. 
  • Evaluation of Women's Empowerment in a Community-Based Human Papillomavirus Self-Sampling Social Entrepreneurship Program (Hope Project) in Peru: A Mixed-Method Study. 
  • Factors related with sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity among low- and middle-income settings: the 10/66 DRG study. 
  • Falling palm fronds structure amazonian rainforest sapling communities. 
  • Gametocytemia in Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum infections. 
  • Gaps contribute tree diversity to a tropical floodplain forest. 
  • Gaps present a trade-off between dispersal and establishment that nourishes species diversity. 
  • Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: global prices, deforestation, and mercury imports. 
  • HIV risk and preventive interventions in transgender women sex workers. 
  • HIV/AIDS, human rights, and transgender people in Latin America. 
  • Hair Mercury Level is Associated with Anemia and Micronutrient Status in Children Living Near Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Historical effects on beta diversity and community assembly in Amazonian trees. 
  • Hyperendemic malaria transmission in areas of occupation-related travel in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control in Selected LMIC Communities: Results From the NHLBI/UHG Network of Centers of Excellence for Chronic Diseases. 
  • In urban, but not rural, areas of Madre de Dios, Peru, adoption of a Western diet is inversely associated with selenium intake. 
  • Individual and Spatial Risk of Dengue Virus Infection in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. 
  • Intra- and interspecific tree growth across a long altitudinal gradient in the Peruvian Andes. 
  • Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding cervical cancer screening among women in metropolitan Lima, Peru: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Lessons from a multisite international trial in the Caribbean and South America of an HIV-1 Canarypox vaccine (ALVAC-HIV vCP1452) with or without boosting with MN rgp120. 
  • Linking deforestation to malaria in the Amazon: characterization of the breeding habitat of the principal malaria vector, Anopheles darlingi. 
  • Malaria Transmission and Spillover across the Peru-Ecuador Border: A Spatiotemporal Analysis. 
  • Mercury Exposure and Poor Nutritional Status Reduce Response to Six Expanded Program on Immunization Vaccines in Children: An Observational Cohort Study of Communities Affected by Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Mercury hair levels and factors that influence exposure for residents of Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Methods for estimating population density in data-limited areas: evaluating regression and tree-based models in Peru. 
  • Modeling asymptomatic infections and work-related human circulation as drivers of unstable malaria transmission in low-prevalence areas: A study in the Northern Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Modelling the impact of HIV prevention and treatment for men who have sex with men on HIV epidemic trajectories in low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Morningness/eveningness chronotype, poor sleep quality, and daytime sleepiness in relation to common mental disorders among Peruvian college students. 
  • Natural ventilation for the prevention of airborne contagion. 
  • Neutralizing antibody responses over time in demographically and clinically diverse individuals recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection in the United States and Peru: A cohort study. 
  • Non-local validated parametrization of an agent-based model of local-scale Taenia solium transmission in North-West Peru. 
  • Oil and gas projects in the Western Amazon: threats to wilderness, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples. 
  • Parvimico materdei gen. et sp. nov.: A new platyrrhine from the Early Miocene of the Amazon Basin, Peru. 
  • Plant and animal endemism in the eastern Andean slope: challenges to conservation. 
  • Plasma Tryptophan and the Kynurenine-Tryptophan Ratio are Associated with the Acquisition of Statural Growth Deficits and Oral Vaccine Underperformance in Populations with Environmental Enteropathy. 
  • Policy Considerations to Promote Equitable Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment in Peru. 
  • Population-based dietary exposure to mercury through fish consumption in the Southern Peruvian Amazon. 
  • 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. 
  • Predictors of mitochondrial DNA copy number and damage in a mercury-exposed rural Peruvian population near artisanal and small-scale gold mining: An exploratory study. 
  • Relationship between serum antibodies and Taenia solium larvae burden in pigs raised in field conditions. 
  • Residential mercury contamination in adobe brick homes in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Results of the NIMH collaborative HIV/sexually transmitted disease prevention trial of a community popular opinion leader intervention. 
  • Risk of spontaneous preterm birth in relation to maternal exposure to intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Peru. 
  • River transport of mercury from artisanal and small-scale gold mining and risks for dietary mercury exposure in Madre de Dios, Peru. 
  • Seasonal patterns in risk factors for Taenia solium transmission: a GPS tracking study of pigs and open human defecation in northern Peru. 
  • Single origin and subsequent diversification of central Andean endemic Umbilicaria species. 
  • Sources of variability in determining malaria parasite density by microscopy. 
  • Spatial, Temporal, and Dietary Variables Associated with Elevated Mercury Exposure in Peruvian Riverine Communities Upstream and Downstream of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining. 
  • Speciation and bioaccessibility of mercury in adobe bricks and dirt floors in Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Symptomatic and asymptomatic Campylobacter infections associated with reduced growth in Peruvian children. 
  • The 2018 Global Research Expedition on Altitude Related Chronic Health (Global REACH) to Cerro de Pasco, Peru: an Experimental Overview. 
  • The Effect of a Priest-Led Intervention on the Choice and Preference of Soda Beverages: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Catholic Parishes. 
  • The evolution of witchcraft and the meaning of healing in colonial Andean society. 
  • The history of South American tropical precipitation for the past 25,000 years. 
  • Towards sustainable partnerships in global health: the case of the CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases in Peru. 
  • Understanding transmission and control of the pork tapeworm with CystiAgent: a spatially explicit agent-based model. 
  • Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to assess the aetiology, burden, and clinical characteristics of diarrhoea in children in low-resource settings: a reanalysis of the MAL-ED cohort study. 
  • Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to investigate the effect of enteropathogen infections on linear growth in children in low-resource settings: longitudinal analysis of results from the MAL-ED cohort study. 
  • Validation of a spatial agent-based model for Taenia solium transmission ("CystiAgent") against a large prospective trial of control strategies in northern Peru. 
  • Violence Experiences in Childhood and Adolescence Among Gay Men and Transgender Women Living in Perú: A Qualitative Exploration. 
  • Which single intervention would do the most to improve the health of those living on less than $1 per day? Interview by Gavin Yamey. 
  • White blood cell counts and malaria. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society