A pesar que los manglares son reconocidos a nivel mundial como ecosistemas altamente productivos y ecológicamente importantes, en la actualidad, su extensión se ha reducido significativamente debido a las actividades humanas en las zonas costeras. Por lo tanto, es necesario investigar su dinámica y re...
BACKGROUND: Marine invertebrate-associated microbial communities are interesting examples of complex symbiotic systems and are a potential source of biotechnological products. RESULTS: In this work, pyrosequencing-based assessment from bacterial community structures of sediments, two sponges, and one zoa...
OBJECTIVE: To describe epidemiological trends of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean during the pandemic period. DESIGN AND METHODS: Data on laboratory-confirmed cases and deaths associated with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) contained in two regional databases at the Ca...
La medicina interna, comprendida como una especialidad clínica, enfocada en el adulto,
se caracteriza por su posición de “integralidad en el enfoque” y de evaluación activa en todos
los aspectos relevantes para la salud del individuo teniendo en cuenta los determinantes del
proceso salud-enfermeda...
Medical tourism, which is the intentional travel by privatepaying patients across international borders for medical treatment, is a sector that has been targeted for growth in many Caribbean countries. The international development of this industry has raised a core set of proposed health equity benefits...
La leptospirosis es una zoonosis bacteriana causada por especies del género Leptospira que afectam a humanos y animales. Su reservorio lo constituyen los roedores y animales domésticos principalmente, y su transmisión ocurre por la contaminación de suelos y agua con la orina de estos animales. Su dis...
This article discusses issues relevant to the examination of personality and personality disorder in contexts, such as the Caribbean, which are under-represented in this scholarship. The article argues that because normal personality is the standard against which definitions of non-normality (and at the ...