Publications by authors named "Mayra Parra"
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- Limited data on allergic diseases in high-altitude urban areas of Latin America led to a study in Cuenca, Ecuador, focusing on preschool children aged 3-5 years.
- The study found that 18% suffered from asthma, 48% from rhinitis, and 28% from eczema, with atopy present in 33% of the children, and various risk factors associated with these conditions.
- Key findings indicated that parental history of allergies significantly increased risks for conditions like asthma and eczema, while attending daycare appeared to lower the risk of rhinitis.
In Colombia, late blight is considered one of the most limiting diseases on potato and tomato production. Recently, a new species, , was described infecting tree tomato crops in the south of Colombia. However, the distribution and the host range of this new emerging pathogen in the country are unknown.
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