RESUMO Objetivo: Descrever o prognóstico, os fatores de risco e a etiologia das infecções da pele e dos tecidos moles na unidade de terapia intensiva. Métodos: Estudo retrospectivo de uma coorte de 1.123 pacientes graves admitidos a uma unidade de terapia intensiva com o diagnóstico de infecção ...
Introducción: Las infecciones de vías
urinarias (IVU) constituyen un problema de salud mundial. El aumento de la
resistencia bacteriana a los antimicrobianos limita la administración de antibióticos económicos y de espectro limitado, lo que afecta el costo y el acceso a
la atención. El objetivo de ...
La tricomicosis es una infección superficial causada por Corynebacterium flavescens, que afecta por lo regular pelos axilares, en menor grado los púbicos, los escrotales e interglúteos y excepcionalmente los de la cabeza o tricomicosis capitis (TC). Esta infección se caracteriza por formación de nó...
ABSTRACT Introduction Urinalysis (UA) in the emergency setting for patients with nephrolithiasis produces potentially confusing results leading to treatment of presumed urinary tract infections (UTIs). Our objective was to evaluate the use of antibiotics in patients with nephrolithiasis in a large netw...
Abstract Borreliosis caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato is a cosmopolitan zoonosis studied worldwide; it is called Lyme disease in many countries of the Northern Hemisphere and Lyme-like or Baggio-Yoshinari Syndrome in Brazil. However, despite the increasing number of suspect cases, this disease i...
Abstract Introduction: Salmonellosis is a relatively rare complication in kidney transplant recipients that cannot be clinically distinguished from other forms of enteritis. Among kidney transplant patients, it varies broadly in intensity, and is highly associated with extra-intestinal disease, bacterem...
Introducción: el género Hypericum se caracteriza por poseer gran importancia etnobotánica en diferentes culturas a nivel mundial lo cual ha impulsado los estudios para el aislamiento e identificación de metabolitos bioactivos. Objetivo: realizar la caracterización fitoquímica preliminar y el estudi...
Introduction: Cucurbita moschata Duchesne (ahuyama) is grown across America as well as in the Middle East and Europe. It has been used as alternative medicine since ancient times. In the northern section of the department of Bolívar, Colombia, the plant is used by peasants to treat skin infections, henc...
