Diagnostic Testing Accuracy for Infection among Adult Patients with Dyspepsia in Cuba's Primary Care Setting.

Evidence of the effectiveness of the tests used to diagnose () in primary healthcare is limited. This cross-sectional study aims to assess the accuracy of tests used for to diagnose infection in primary care patients and its relationship with gastroduodenal pathologies. Over 12 months, 173 primary care patients with dyspeptic symptoms were referred for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy to obtain gastric biopsies, and venous blood was extracted from them.

Nosocomial ventilator-associated pneumonia in Cuban intensive care units: bacterial species and antibiotic resistance.

Introduction: Nosocomial pneumonia associated with use of mechanical ventilators is one of the greatest challenges confronted by intensivists worldwide. The literature associates several bacteria with this type of infection; most common in intensive care units are Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and some of the Enterobacteriaceae family.

Objectives: To identify the causal agents of nosocomial ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care units of Havana's Hermanos Ameijeiras Clinical-Surgical Teaching Hospital in 2011, and to characterize their antibiotic resistance.