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A one year study was carried out in a waste stabilization ponds system where septage and sewage are cotreated. The system consists of two septage ponds which operate alternately followed by two ponds in series which receive the combined effluent. The septage ponds also act as evaporation ponds for the accumulated sludge. The monitoring program was divided in two phases. The results of the first phase indicate that the effluent of septage ponds has an adequate quality to be discharged into the waste stabilization ponds designed to treat sewage and that is possible to use the septage ponds to dry the accumulated sludge. Further investigation is needed to find suitable post-treatment of the sludge in order to use it in agriculture.
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Sewage , Waste Disposal, Fluid/methods , Agriculture , Facility Design and Construction , Vacuum , Water MovementsABSTRACT
UNLABELLED: This paper reviews the development of the field of medical informatics in Latin America. It also describes the results of a computer-based data management system, named AGUSTINA, which is comprised of maternal and infant data on 7570 deliveries that occurred between June, 1990 and December, 1996 in a hospital in the surroundings of Buenos Aires, Argentina. These data were fundamental for the instrumentation of preventive community-oriented activities in the area. Finally, this paper describes recommendations for future actions in the area of medical informatics in Latin America. ABBREVIATIONS: PCR: perinatal clinical record; CLAP, Centro Latino-Americano de Perinato-logia; WHO, World Health Organization; PAHO, Pan-American Health Organization; E-Mail, electronic mail; WWW, world wide web; FTP, file transfer protocol.
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Databases, Factual , Perinatal Care/statistics & numerical data , Pregnancy Outcome/epidemiology , Adolescent , Adult , Argentina/epidemiology , Female , Humans , Infant Mortality , Infant, Newborn , Perinatal Care/standards , Pregnancy , Total Quality ManagementABSTRACT
Estudios soroepidemiologico llevados a cabo en muestras de campo, realizados a fines de 1986 por el Laboratorio de Diagnostico y Referencia para las Americas en el Centro Panamericano de Fiebre Aftos, mostraron un variacion antigenica de virus de la fiebre aftosa tipo A en relacion con el usual A24 y aislamiento de campo A-79 en Argentina. La estrecha relacion entre la industria ganadera agentina y su contraparte en la frontera con Uruguay y la fronteraentre el Uruguay y el estado de Rio Grande do Sul, en Brasil, facilito la diseminacion del virus de la fiebre aftosa entre los paises. Las muestras de campo fueron caracterizadas como virus A-81 Argentina/87
