Healthy living behaviors in youth: a comparative study in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.

The physical, mental and social well being, refers to a new concept of health, far from a conceptualisations of absence of disease Additional challenges emerge as individuals face deep social inequities depending on their ethnicity, rural residence or low educational level, as these translate to poor access to health services and more difficulties to adhere to healthy living behaviors. The objective of this study was to assess the perception that adolescents and young adults in Latinamerica have of the importance of healthy living behaviors (HLB) in the physical, emotional and lifestyle spheres. The approach is considered quantitative and descriptive with a cross sectional design.

[SSCP analysis (ITS2, ERG11) in clinical Candida isolates from oral cavity in oncology patients].

Antifungal prophylactic therapy in oncology patients has favors the emergence of diverse species of Candida. In the present study 32 clinic isolates of Candida spp., recovered from oral cavity, were evaluated testing their susceptibility to diverse antifungals by means of the microdilution method according with the document M-27A of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS).