Physician Assistant Studies Faculty Publications
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Submissions from 2024
Empowering the biomedical research community: Innovative SAS deployment on the All of Us Researcher Workbench, Izabelle Humes, Cathy Shyr, Moira Dillon, Zhongjie Liu, Jennifer Peterson, Chris St Jeor, Jacqueline Malkes, Hiral Master, Brandy Mapes, and Bassent Abdelbary
Physical Violence and Aggression in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review, Melissa B. Jones, Lakeshia Gibson, Malena Gimenez-Zapiola, Ana Guerra, Gursimrat Bhatti, Dakota Broadway, Juliann Tea, Aksa Prasad, Rachel Gates, and Elizabeth Hinton
Submissions from 2023
A Narrative Review of the Lesser Known Medications for Treatment of Restless Legs Syndrome and Pathogenetic Implications for Their Use, Paul Gerardo Yeh, Karen Spruyt, Lourdes M. DelRosso, and Arthur S. Walters
Submissions from 2022
Evaluating the Dissemination and Implementation of a Community Health Worker-Based Community Wide Campaign to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Physical Activity among Latinos along the U.S.-Mexico Border, Paul Gerardo Yeh, Belinda M. Reininger, Lisa A. Mitchell-Bennett, MinJae Lee, Tianlin Xu, Amanda C. Davé, Soo Kyung Park, and Alma G. Ochoa-Del Toro
Submissions from 2021
SARS-CoV-2: Potencial transmisión feco-oral e implicaciones en la propagación y gravedad del COVID-19 en Venezuela. Mini-revisión. [SARS-CoV-2: Potential feco-oral transmission and implications on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Venezuela. Mini-review.], Leonor Chacin-Bonilla and Nathalie Chacon
Emerging issues in COVID-19 vaccination in Tropical Areas: Impact of the Immune Response against Helminths in Endemic Areas, Leonor Chacin-Bonilla, Nathalie Chacon, and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales
Implications of helminth immunomodulation on COVID-19 co-infections, Nathalie Chacon, Leonor Chacin-Bonilla, and Italo M. Cesar
Cervical cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV), and HPV vaccination: Exploring gendered perspectives, knowledge, attitudes, and cultural taboos among Mexican American adults, Daisy Y. Morales-Campos, S. A. Snipes, Edna K. Villarreal, L. C. Crocker, A. Guerrero, and M. E. Fernandez
Scaling a Community-Wide Campaign Intervention to Manage Hypertension and Weight Loss, Belinda M. Reininger, Lisa A. Mitchell-Bennett, MinJae Lee, Paul G. Yeh, Amanda C. Davé, Soo Kyung Park, Tianlin Xu, and Alma G. Ochoa-Del Toro
Submissions from 2019
Diagnosis and drug resistance of human soil-transmitted helminth infections: A public health perspective, Polydor Ngoy Mutombo, Nicola W.Y. Man, Peter Nejsum, Robert Ricketson, Catherine A. Gordon, Gemma Robertson, Archie C. A. Clements, Nathalie de Jesús Chacón Fonseca, Veeranoot Nissapatorn, and Joanne P. Webster
Diabetes, undernutrition, migration and indigenous communities: tuberculosis in Chiapas, Mexico, H. A. Rashak, H. J. Sánchez-Pérez, Bassent Abdelbary, A. Bencomo-Alerm, N. Enriquez-Ríos, A. Gómez-Velasco, A. Colorado, M. Castellanos-Joya, M. H. Rahbar, and Blanca I. Restrepo
Submissions from 2018
Medicina Tropical y su proyeccion actual: Un breve panorama [A brief overview: Tropical medicine and its current projection], Nathalie Chacon and Luis Alfonso Colmenares Suárez
La planificación de un álbum virtual de parásitos intestinales [The planning of a virtual album of intestinal parasites], Nathalie Chacon and Darling Sánchez
Tratamiento de la Leishmaniasis Tegumentaria Americana con Meglumina en pacientes con inmunoterapia previa [Treatment of american tegumentary leishmaniasis with meglu-mine in patients with previous immunotherapy], Pedro Navarro, Luis Alfonso Colmenares Suárez, Olinda Delgado, María Antonia De la Parte, Mariana Rivas, Romy Plaza, Ana G. Angulo, and Nathalie de Jesús Chacón Fonseca
Submissions from 2017
Evaluación del diagnóstico integral de los parásitos intestinales: Infecciones oportunistas en pacientes ambulatorios de la Sección de Geohelmintiasisv[Evaluation of the integral diagnosis of intestinal parasites: Opportunists infections in outpatients of the Soil Transmitted Helminth Section], Nathalie de Jesús Chacón Fonseca, María Josefina Rossomando, Edwin Fernando Díaz, Yonirei Karolay Bermúdez, Martha Cecilia Rojas, Carmen Emilia Durán, and Pedro A. Navarro Rojas
Blastocystis sp. en humanos: actualización y experiencia clínico-terapéutica [Blastocystis sp. in humans: update and clinical-therapeutic experience], Nathalie Chacon, Carmen Durán, and María Antonia De la Parte
Submissions from 2015
Estudio piloto que evalúa método de aprendizaje tradicional versus método de aprendizaje basado en problemas en las prácticas del laboratorio de parasitología escuela de medicina “Luis Razetti”, Universidad Central de Venezuela [Comparative pilot study of an evaluating learning method versus traditional method of problem-based learning, laboratory practices of Parasitology. Medical School "Luis Razetti” Central University of Venezuela], Carmen Emilia Durán La Rosa and Nathalie Chacon
Submissions from 2014
Paludismo, Endemia Rural Venezolana del Pasado y del Presente [Malaria: Rural endemic Venezuelan Past and Present], Ana G. Angulo, Erika De Pablos, Pedro Navarro, Yetzenia Haro, María Antonia De la Parte, and Nathalie Chacon
Socioeconomic Context and the Food Landscape in Texas: Results from Hotspot Analysis and Border/Non-Border Comparison of Unhealthy Food Environments, Jennifer J. Salinas, Bassent Abdelbary, Kelly Klaas, Beatriz Tapia, and Ken Sexton
Cardiovascular disease risk among the Mexican American population in the Texas-Mexico border region, by age and length of residence in United States, Jennifer J. Salinas, Bassent Abdelbary, Anne R. Rentfro, Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, and Joseph B. McCormick
Submissions from 2012
Using the Framingham Risk Score to Evaluate Immigrant Effect on Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Mexican Americans, Jennifer J. Salinas, Bassent Abdelbary, Jeffrey Wilson, Monir Hossain, Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, and Joseph B. McCormick
Impact of Hispanic Ethnic Concentration and Socioeconomic Status on Obesity Prevalence in Texas Counties, Jennifer J. Salinas, Elizabeth Rocha, Bassent Abdelbary, Jennifer L. Gay, and Ken Sexton
Application of a Novel Method for Assessing Cumulative Risk Burden by County, Jennifer J. Salinas, Manasi Shah, Bassent Abdelbary, Jennifer L. Gay, and Ken Sexton
Submissions from 2011
Enseñanza de la medicina tropical mediante la discusión de casos clínicos [Teaching tropical medicine through discussion of clinical cases], Pedro Navarro, Luis Alfonso Colmenares Suárez, Albany Sosa, María Soto, Nathalie Chacon, Isabel Trebesch, María Antonia De la Parte, and Amando Martin
Submissions from 2010
Factores predictivos de infección para estrongiloidosis en pacientes procedentes de áreas urbanas [Predictive factors for Strongyloidiasis infection in patients from urban areas], Nathalie Chacon, Carmen Durán, and María Josefina Rossomando
Atención hospitalaria de la leishmaniosis tegumentaria americana en los miembros inferiores, Pedro Navarro, Linda Lugo, María Antonia De la Parte, Luis Alfonso Colmenares Suárez, Nathalie Chacon, Amando Martin, Sylvia Silva, Jorge Schuller, Eduardo Salas, and Adayza Figueredo
Condiciones higiénico-sanitarias como factores de riesgo para las parasitosis intestinales en una comunidad rural Venezolana [Hygiene and sanitation as risk factors for intestinal parasites in a Venezuelan rural community], Alejandro Rísquez, Marvic Márquez, Geraldine del Carmen Quintero, Juan Pablo Ramírez, José Gregorio Requena, Andrea Daniela Riquelme, Maigualida José Rodríguez, Margaret Gissel Rodríguez, and Nathalie Chacon
Submissions from 2009
Ocurrencia de isospora belli, cryptosporidium SPP y cyclospora cayetanenesis en pacientes urbanos evaluados por síntomas gastrointestinales con o sin imnunosupresión [Occurrence of Isospora belli, Cryptosporidium spp. , and Cyclospora cayetanensis in urban patients evaluated for gastrointestinal symptoms with or without immunosuppression], Nathalie Chacon, Raquel Salinas, Emily Kuo, Carmen E. Durán, Wilfredo Márquez, and Rosa Contreras
Abscesos cerebelosos como complicación infrecuente de absceso hepático amebiano. Reporte de un caso [Cerebelous abscesses as an uncommon complication of amebic hapatic abscess. A case report], S. Díaz-Márquez, N. Bastardo, A. Bello, J. Dib Jr., and Nathalie Chacon
Submissions from 2008
Comportamiento biológico de Blastocystis hominis en pacientes tratados con Secnidazol (Unidazol®) [Biological behavior of Blastocystis hominis in patients treated with Secnidazol (Unidazol®)], Carmen Guzmán de Rondón, Maria Alejandra Vethencourt, Mónica Galindo Pérez, Nathalie Chacon, Carolina Wagner, and Anaibeth Nessi Paduani
Epidemiología de himenolepiosis y otras parasitosis intestinales en una comunidad suburbana de Escuque, Trujillo-Venezuela [Himenolepiosis epidemiology and other intestinal parasites in a suburban community of Escuque, Trujillo, Venezuela], María Josefina Rossomando, Wilfredo Márquez, Johanna Prado, and Nathalie Chacon
Submissions from 2007
Equinococosis hepática poliquística autóctona por Echinococcus vogeli en el amazonas venezolano: Descripción de un caso [Autochthonous polycystic hepatic Echinococcosis due to Echinococcus vogeli at the Venezuelan amazon: Case report], Salha Abdul-Hadi, Nathalie de Jesús Chacón Fonseca, Ana Cecilia Bruces, José Enrique Gutierrez, Jorge Alfredo Safar, María Alejandra Egui, Adriana Falco, and Hector Eduardo Cantele
Importancia de la referencia médica en el diagnóstico de parasitosis intestinales por métodos coproparasitológicos [Importance of Medical Reference in the diagnosis of intestinal parasitosis parasitological methods], Nathalie de Jesús Chacón Fonseca, Rosa Contreras, Wilfredo Márquez, Raquel Salinas, and Johanna María Romero
Submissions from 2006
Tratamiento laparoscópico de un quiste hidatídico hepático poliquístico por Echinococcus vogeli: Reporte de un caso en Venezuela [Laparoscopic treatment of a polycystic hepatic hydatid cyst caused by Echinococcus vogeli. Case report from Venezuela], Héctor Eduardo Cantele, José Enrique Gutiérrez, Jorge Alfredo Safar, Adriana Falco, María Alejandra Egui, María Conchita Díaz, Salha Abdul-Hadi, Nathalie Chacon, Ana Cecilia Bruces, and María Valentina Díaz
Submissions from 2005
Schistosoma: cross-reactivity and antigenic community among different species, S. Losada, Nathalie Chacon, Luis Alfonso Colmenares Suárez, H. Bermúdez, A. Lorenzo, J. P. Pointier, A. Theron, B. Alarcón de Noya, and O. Noya
Submissions from 2003
Immunogenicity of polymerizable synthetic peptides derived from a vaccine candidate against schistosomiasis: the asparaginyl endopeptidase (Sm32), Nathalie Chacon, S. Losada, H. Bermúdez, I. M. Cesari, J. Hoebeke, and Oscar Noya
Submissions from 2002
Antigenic community between Schistosoma mansoni and Biomphalaria glabrata: on the search of candidate antigens for vaccines, Nathalie Chacon, S. Losada, B. Noya, B. Alarcon de Noya, and O. Noya
