Mycobacterium timonense is a non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) described in southern France in 2009, and to our knowledge, not reported again as a human pathogen in indexed literature. The aim of this work was to characterize ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the profile of Ecuadorians who died by suicide during 2011. The National Mortality Study of 2011 was used in order to investigate the variables: sex, age, marital status, ...

Existe evidencia científica que sugiere que las variaciones de un gradiente ecológico moldean algunas características propias de cada organismo como su comportamiento o morfometría. En este estudio, analizamos el efecto ...

Globally, more than 10 million people are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. The emergence and perpetuation of Chagas disease in some endemic countries, such as Ecuador, depends largely on sylvatic populations of T. ...

Corpus linguistics provides tools used to answer society and health related questions. In this pilot study, the feasibility of a corpusdriven analysis to reveal themes associated with the image of the Ecuadorian physiotherapy ...

We describe a new species of frog of the genus Chiasmocleis from the montane forests of southeastern Ecuador, at the western slopes of Cordillera del Cóndor, between 1,224‑1,630 m of elevation. Based on new sequences of ...