Publications by authors named "A Aguinaga"
Article Synopsis
- Bartonella spp. infections are gaining attention as a cause of serious zoonotic diseases, particularly affecting individuals with existing health issues like heart disease and immunosuppression.
- Diagnosing endocarditis linked to these infections is tough due to the tricky nature of Bartonella bacteria, necessitating specialized tests alongside standard blood cultures, which are often negative.
- A 74-year-old shepherd became the first documented case of infective endocarditis from Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii, highlighting the importance of recognizing this pathogen in people with risk factors such as exposure to canids and underlying health conditions.
Background: Recent advancements in personal biosensing technology support the shift from standardized to personalized health interventions, whereby biological data are used to motivate health behavior change. However, the implementation of interventions using biological feedback as a behavior change technique has not been comprehensively explored.
Objective: The purpose of this review was to (1) map the domains of research where biological feedback has been used as a behavior change technique and (2) describe how it is implemented in behavior change interventions for adults.
Hepatitis E virus genotype 3 microbiological surveillance by the Spanish Reference Laboratory: geographic distribution and phylogenetic analysis of subtypes from 2009 to 2019.
Euro Surveill
June 2022
BackgroundHepatitis E virus genotype 3 (HEV-3) is widely distributed throughout Europe, with incidence of infections increasing in many countries. Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have reported the distribution of HEV-3 subtypes in cohorts of patients with hepatic disease.AimTo describe the distribution of the HEV-3 subtypes in Spain at national and autonomous community (AC) levels between 2009 and 2019.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackgroundMost reports of influenza vaccine effectiveness consider current-season vaccination only.AimWe evaluated a method to estimate the effect of influenza vaccinations (EIV) considering vaccination history.MethodsWe used a test-negative design with well-documented vaccination history to evaluate the average EIV over eight influenza seasons (2011/12-2018/19; n = 10,356).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: undiagnosed active hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains an obstacle towards its eradication. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of HCV infection and to describe the diagnostic advances in Navarre, Spain.
Methods: HCV-infection diagnostic performance was analyzed in Navarre's primary and specialized health care between 2017 and 2019.