Tuberculosis multirresistente en Colombia, 2013-2018: estudio de casos y controles.

Introduction: Multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) is difficult to control, has high morbidity and mortality, and demands priority public health intervention. In Colombia, MDR/RR-TB has been becoming more widespread annually. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, over an 8-year period, the number of cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Colombia was close to a thousand cases.

Infections in patients with adverse reactions to the use of unknown modeling substances for soft tissue enhancement in Cali, Colombia.

The infiltration of foreign materials not approved for medical purposes or of modeling substances used in soft tissue to modify the anatomical appearance for aesthetic purposes represents a serious health problem. These procedures lead to the development of delayed complications, including infections. The objective of this study was to characterize infections in patients with adverse reactions to the use of modeling substances in Cali, Colombia.

Adverse effects of modeling substances in Cali, Colombia.

Introduction: The desire to improve one’s physical appearance through simple and economical methods has resulted in the indiscriminate application of modeling substances. As a result, iatrogenic allogenosis has emerged as an increasingly prevalent disease in Latin America. Objective: To describe the epidemiological characteristics and adverse effects arising from the use of modeling substances in a group of patients from Cali, Colombia.

Report on the midwives' experiences in the Brazilian National Health System: A qualitative research.

Objective: to describe the experiences of midwives who graduated from the University of São Paulo's midwifery program and the characteristics of their work within the Brazilian National Health System (SUS).

Design: a descriptive, qualitative field study.

Setting: interviews were scheduled by telephone or e-mail and were held with the midwives outside their work environment.

Disseminated mycobacteriosis affecting a prosthetic aortic valve: first case of Mycobacterium peregrinum type III reported in Colombia.

Rapidly growing mycobacteria are non-tuberculous mycobacteria amply present in the environment. Although they are not usually pathogenic for humans, they are opportunistic in that they can cause disease in people with disadvantageous conditions or who are immunocompromised. Mycobacterium peregrinum, an opportunistic, rapidly growing mycobacteria, belongs to the M.

[Molecular identification of non-tuberculous mycobacteria].

Introduction: Nontuberculous mycobacteria can be saprophytic, pathogenic or opportunistic. The most common diseases produced by these microorganisms are the post-surgical infections due to anesthetic procedures, infections associated with catheters, disseminated cutaneous diseases and pulmonary and central nervous system diseases that especially affect HIV patients. Identification of the nontuberculous mycobacteria can take several weeks and even then, differentiation of complex members is not possible.

11,13-dihydro-dehydroleucodine, a derivative of dehydroleucodine with an inactivated alkylating function conserves the anti-proliferative activity in G2 but does not cause cytotoxicity.

Modulation of vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation has critical therapeutic implications for vascular disease. Recently, we demonstrated that the sesquiterpene lactone dehydroleucodine (DhL) inhibited the proliferation of VSMCs in G2 phase. It is known that the alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl group of the sesquiterpene lactone has a nonspecific alkylating activity that inhibits a large number of enzymes or factors involved in key biological processes.

[Development of a multiantigenic serological test for tuberculosis diagnosis].

Objective: The present work evaluated a multi-antigen printing immunoassay (MAPIA) for the serological diagnosis of tuberculosis.

Materials And Methods: Sera were obtained from 66 patients with tuberculosis, verified clinically and bacteriologically and from 47 healthy individuals (control group). Sample sera were used for detection of antibodies against 3 enriched mixtures of proteins and 5 unique recombinant antigens.