Monkeypox (MPOX) is a viral zoonosis endemic in West or Central African countries that is sporadically exported to another area. In May 2022, a global outbreak of MPOX smallpox began to occur in several countries in Europe and North America. Most of the reported cases are identified at the outpatient level and mainly affect men who have sex with men (MSM).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHuman schistosomiasis is the parasitic disease with the highest morbidity and mortality worldwide after malaria. It is endemic in more than 78 tropical and subtropical countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, and it is estimated that 236 million people are infected. It can cause serious health complications at the genitourinary and hepatosplenic level, leading to the death of 300,000 people each year.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSARS-CoV-2 is transmitted from person to person by inhalation or contact with respiratory droplets and aerosols. The median incubation period is 5.1 days.
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September 2020
Objective: One of the fist lines of action of the National Plan against Antibiotic Resistance (PRAN) is to monitor the use of antibiotics as a fundamental basis for the fight against resistance. In order to know the antibiotic prescription habits, we pretended to describe the outpatient prescription of systemic antibiotics in the Balearic Islands through exploitation of ABPresclín database.
Methods: It was an ecological descriptive study of the electronic outpatient prescriptions of systemic antibiotics of the Health Service of the Balearic Islands from 2012 to 2018.