Systematic review and meta-analysis of the current evidence on the duration of protection by bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccination against tuberculosis by I Abubakar, L Pimpin, C Ariti, R Beynon, P Mangtani, JAC Sterne, PEM Fine, PG Smith, M Lipman, D Elliman, JM Watson, LN Drumright, PF Whiting, E Vynnycky, LC Rodrigues

“…Data sources: Electronic databases including MEDLINE, Excerpta Medica Database (EMBASE), Cochrane Databases, NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE), Web of Knowledge, Biosciences Information Service (BIOSIS), Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACs), MEDCARIB Database, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) were searched from inception to May 2009. …”
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Impact of fluvoxamine on outpatient treatment of COVID-19 in Honduras in a prospective observational real-world study by Estela Pineda, Jarmanjeet Singh, Miguel Vargas Pineda, Jose Garay Umanzor, Fernando Baires, Luis G. Benitez, Cesar Burgos, Anupamjeet Kaur Sekhon, Nicole Crisp, Anita S. Lewis, Jana Radwanski, Marco Bermudez, Karen Sanchez Barjun, Oscar Diaz, Elsa Palou, Rossany E. Escalante, Carlos Isai Hernandez, Mark L. Stevens, Deke Eberhard, Manuel Sierra, Tito Alvarado, Omar Videa, Miguel Sierra-Hoffman, Fernando Valerio-Pascua

“…The concept of early treatment was almost unheard of when early outpatient treatments utilizing repurposed drugs in Latin American countries began showing promising results. …”
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Occurrence of acute kidney injury in adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Reginaldo Passoni, Tarcísio Vitor Augusto Lordani, Luis Alberto Batista Peres, Ariana Rodrigues da Silva Carvalho

“…Methods: The electronic search covered research published until June 20, 2020, and included five databases, PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, and Lilacs (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Library). …”
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Evaluación de la calidad de guías de práctica clínica para el tratamiento de psoriasis mediante la herramienta AGREE II by C. Montesinos-Guevara, A. Andrade Miranda, E. Bedoya-Hurtado, C.M. Escobar Liquitay, J.V.A. Franco, D. Simancas-Racines, Y. Sami Amer, R.W.M. Vernooij, A. Viteri-García

“…Material and methods: We searched for relevant CPGs in MEDLINE, Embase, and LILACS (Latin American and Caribean Health Sciences Literature) as well as in the gray literature. …”
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Factors associated with long‐term HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis engagement and adherence among transgender women in Brazil, Mexico and Peru: results from the ImPrEP study by Kelika A. Konda, Thiago S. Torres, Gabriela Mariño, Alessandra Ramos, Ronaldo I. Moreira, Iuri C. Leite, Marcelo Cunha, Emilia M. Jalil, Brenda Hoagland, Juan V. Guanira, Marcos Benedetti, Cristina Pimenta, Heleen Vermandere, Sergio Bautista‐Arredondo, Hamid Vega‐Ramirez, Valdilea G. Veloso, Carlos F. Caceres, Beatriz Grinsztejn, for the ImPrEP Study Group

“…Abstract Introduction The HIV epidemic continues to disproportionately impact Latin‐American transgender women (TGW). We assessed factors associated with long‐term pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) engagement and adherence among TGW enrolled in the Implementation of PrEP (ImPrEP) study, the largest PrEP demonstration study in Latin America. …”
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Occurrence of acute kidney injury in adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Reginaldo Passoni, Tarcísio Vitor Augusto Lordani, Luis Alberto Batista Peres, Ariana Rodrigues da Silva Carvalho

“…Methods: The electronic search covered research published until June 20, 2020, and included five databases, PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, and Lilacs (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Library). …”
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Classic and Atypical Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis in Latin America: Clinical and Genetic Aspects, and Treatment Outcome with Cerliponase Alfa by Norberto Guelbert, Oscar Mauricio Espitia Segura, Carolina Amoretti, Angélica Arteaga Arteaga, Nora Graciela Atanacio, Sabrina Bazan Natacha, Ellaine Doris Fernandes Carvalho, Maria Denise Fernandes Carvalho de Andrade, Inés María Denzler, Consuelo Durand, Erlane Ribeiro, Juan Carlos Giugni, Gabriel González, Dolores González Moron, Guillermo Guelbert, Zulma Janneth Hernández Rodriguez, Katiane Embiruçu Emilia, Marcelo Andrés Kauffman, Nury Isabel Mancilla, Laureano Marcon, Alessandra Marques Pereira, Carolina Fischinger Moura de Souza, Victor Adrián Muñoz, Ricardo Andrés Naranjo Flórez, André Luiz Pessoa, María Victoria Ruiz, Martha Luz Solano Villareal, Norma Spécola, Lina Marcela Tavera, Javiera Tello, Mónica Troncoso Schifferli, Sonia Ugrina, María Magdalena Vaccarezza, Diane Vergara, María Mercedes Villanueva

“…Materials and methods: A retrospective study was conducted in five Latin-American countries, using clinical records from patients with CLN2. …”
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Hepatitis B virus vaccine and chronic kidney disease. The advances by Fabrizio Fabrizi, Roberta Cerutti, Vivek Dixit, Ezequiel Ridruejo

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One-year monitoring SARS-CoV-2 RNA surface contamination in hospitals reveals no correlation with organic material and negative pressure as a limiting factor for contamination by Marianoel Pereira-Gómez, Rodrigo Arce, Diego Ferla, Diego Simón, Cecilia Salazar, Paula Perbolianachis, Alicia Costábile, Alvaro Fajardo, Fabián Aldunate, Nicolás Nin, Javier Hurtado, Gregorio Iraola, Pilar Moreno, Gonzalo Moratorio

“…This is of special relevance for the Latin-American region where ICU rooms with negative pressure are insufficient.…”
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Cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in Latin America and the Caribbean: an analysis in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru by Federico Augustovski, Ariel Bardach, Adrián Santoro, Federico Rodriguez-Cairoli, Alejandro López-Osornio, Fernando Argento, Maissa Havela, Alejandro Blumenfeld, Jamile Ballivian, Germán Solioz, Analía Capula, Analía López, Cintia Cejas, William Savedoff, Alfredo Palacios, Adolfo Rubinstein, Andrés Pichon-Riviere

“…Interpretation The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in seven Latin American and Caribbean countries -that comprise nearly 80% of the region- was beneficial for population health and was also cost-saving or highly cost-effective.…”
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Análisis bibliométrico de las Publicaciones Científicas de América Latina, España y Portugal en la Categoría Materials Science, Ceramics de la base de datos JCR (SCI) (1997-2008)... by Jordá-Albiñana, B., Rojas-Sola, J. I., Criado-Herero, E.

“…The Latin American scientific community is becoming increasingly significant in many areas, particularly in the ceramic field because of its proximity to the processes of generation of infrastructure and housing demand in developing societies. …”
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Chemotherapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer in the elderly population by Fábio Nasser Santos, Tiago Biachi de Castria, Marcelo Rocha Souza Cruz, Rachel Riera

“…METHODS: Search methods: We searched the following electronic databases: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL; 2014, Issue 10), MEDLINE (1966 to 31 October 2014), EMBASE (1974 to 31 October 2014), and Latin American Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS) (1982 to 31 October 2014). …”
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Multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of Parkinson's disease by Kim, Jonggeol Jeffrey, Vitale, Dan, Otani, Diego Véliz, Lian, Michelle Mulan, Heilbron, Karl, Iwaki, Hirotaka, Lake, Julie, Solsberg, Caroline Warly, Leonard, Hampton, Makarious, Mary B., Tan, Eng-King, Singleton, Andrew B., Bandres-Ciga, Sara, Noyce, Alastair J., Blauwendraat, Cornelis, Nalls, Mike A., Foo, Jia Nee, Mata, Ignacio

“…Here we performed a large-scale multi-ancestry meta-analysis of Parkinson's disease with 49,049 cases, 18,785 proxy cases and 2,458,063 controls including individuals of European, East Asian, Latin American and African ancestry. In a meta-analysis, we identified 78 independent genome-wide significant loci, including 12 potentially novel loci (MTF2, PIK3CA, ADD1, SYBU, IRS2, USP8, PIGL, FASN, MYLK2, USP25, EP300 and PPP6R2) and fine-mapped 6 putative causal variants at 6 known PD loci. …”
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Long-term GnRH agonist therapy before in vitro fertilisation (IVF) for improving fertility outcomes in women with endometriosis by Georgiou, E, Melo, P, Baker, P, Sallam, H, Arici, A, Garcia-Velasco, J, Abou-Setta, A, Becker, C, Granne, I

“…We also searched DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects), Web of Knowledge, OpenGrey, Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Information Database (LILACS), PubMed, Google and reference lists from relevant papers for any other relevant trials. …”

Vitrectomy with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling versus vitrectomy with no peeling for idiopathic full-thickness macular hole (FTMH) by Spiteri Cornish, K, Lois, N, Scott, N, Burr, J, Cook, J, Bochie, C, Tadayoni, R, La Cour, M, Christensen, U, Kwok, A

“…SEARCH METHODS: We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) which contains the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group Trials Register (The Cochrane Library 2013, Issue 2), Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid MEDLINE In-Process and Other Non-Indexed Citations, Ovid MEDLINE Daily, Ovid OLDMEDLINE, (January 1950 to February 2013), EMBASE (January 1980 to February 2013), Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS) (January 1982 to February 2013), the metaRegister of Controlled Trials (mRCT) (www.controlled-trials.com), ClinicalTrials.gov (www.clinicaltrials.gov) and the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) (www.who.int/ictrp/search/en). …”

Neurocisticercose: incidência, diagnóstico e formas clínicas by Horácio M. Canelas

“…The tables of incidence show that although it is practically unknown in some countries, it represents a curse to the less fortunate habitants of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Latin American countries pay a heavy toll; known statistics show a ponderous incidence in Mexico, Chile, Peru and Brasil. …”
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Positive association between job decision authority and systolic blood pressure: a statistical artifact? by BongKyoo Choi, Arturo Juárez-Garcia

“…Lastly, during the recent decades, the main principles of the 1918 Argentine Córdoba University Reform (university autonomy, co-government of all parties in universities, and no tuition from students) may have substantially eroded in Latin American countries (9) due to higher education policies with emphases on government control, privatization, efficiency, competitiveness, and partnerships with business. …”
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Polimorfismo C3435T del Gen ABCB1 (MDR1) en pacientes con Epilepsia refractaria en tres centros de referencia Nacional en Colombia by Harvy Mauricio Velasco Parra, Luisa Fernanda Rodríguez, Claudia González, Vladimir Zambrano, Eugenia Espinosa, Álvaro Izquierdo

“…We are the first Latin American research team evaluating the allelic variants on the ABCB1 gene in Colombian patients with refractory epilepsy.…”
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International nursing leadership related to the drugs phenomenon: a case study of the partnership experience between the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) and th... by Maria da Gloria Miotto Wright, Catherine Caufield, Genevieve Gray, Joanne Olson, Alicia del Carmen Luduena, Flor Yesenia Musayon Oblitas, Julia Huaiquian Silva, Helena Maria Scherlowski David, Ketty Aracely Piedra Chavez, Maria Carmen Bernal Roldan, Maria do Horto Fontoura Cartana, Maria Magdalena Allonso Castillo, Sandra Pillon, Sueli Aparecida Frari Galera, Vera Randuz

“…These reflections demonstrate the multiplicity of ways in which this capacity-building program has made it easier for these members of Latin American Schools of Nursing to show leadership in the area of drug demand reduction.…”
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Assessing Oncologists’ Attitudes Concerning Comprehensive Genomic Profiling in Stage IV Lung Adenocarcinoma in Brazil by Aline F. Fares, MD, MSc, Pedro H. Martinez, Pedro H. Farina, Isaac Bicalho de Souza, Daniel V. Araújo, MD, Narayana S. Paiva, Ligia F. Orlando, Tatiana Elias Colombo, PhD, Eldsamira Mascarenhas, MD, MSc, Ana Caroline Z. Gelatti, MD, MSc, Clarissa Baldotto, MD, PhD, Mauro Zukin, MD, PhD, Luiz Henrique Araujo, MD, PhD, Clarissa Mathias, MD, PhD, Gustavo Werutsky, MD, PhD, Gilberto de Castro, Jr., MD, PhD, Vladmir C. Cordeiro de Lima, MD, PhD

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