Gac Med Mex
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Influenza virus infection is often complicated by a bacterial infection, with this coinfection causing severe pneumonia. If not timely treated, the disease can cause death. ⋯ The groups of mice infected with Streptococcus pneumoniae or influenza virus alone showed no damage, which indicates that coexistence of these infections caused the damage in the group of co-infected mice.
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The way in which two clinical procedures related to infant feeding are carried out in medical consultations for children younger than six months in a health center in Mexico City is analyzed. The first one refers to infants' anthropometric measurement, and the second, to feeding modalities' identification. Corrective actions are required based on the quality of children's health care in the public sector.
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Traditional peer review is undergoing increasing questioning, given the increase in scientific fraud detected and the replication crisis biomedical research is currently going through. Researchers, academic institutions, and research funding agencies actively promote scientific record analysis, and multiple tools have been developed to achieve this. ⋯ In addition, an increasing number biomedical journals allow commenting on articles published on their websites, which is also possible in preprint repositories. Moreover, publishing houses and researchers are largely using social networks for the dissemination and discussion of articles, which sometimes culminates in refutations and retractions.