Publications by authors named "Josefina Puig"
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- The microbial community in urban areas is heavily influenced by human activities, particularly through sewage systems, which serve as reservoirs for bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes.
- The study reveals that different urban water sources like creeks and sewage exhibit unique microbial profiles, with higher human bacteria levels linked to increased AMR genes, specifically beta-lactamases.
- An alarming rise in carbapenem-resistant infections and the spread of a particular strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae from hospitals to the urban environment emphasizes the urgent need to understand and monitor these changes for public health and urban resilience.
Data regarding PRRSV-2 in South America are scant and a coordinated criterion for molecular characterization is needed. A phylogenetic analysis was performed using a dataset of 76 ORF5 sequences from South America, and results showed the identification of lineage 5 in the early 2000s and the predominance of lineage 1 at least since 2013. Lineage 1 sequences were further classified into sub-lineages according to a recent molecular characterization study of PRRSV-2 in United States.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDopaminergic abnormalities have been described in anorexia nervosa but studies about plasma level of homovanillic acid (pHVA) have yielded conflicting results probably due to the small number and the heterogeneity of patients. Plasma HVA, nutritional and hormonal parameters and several scales - the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Leyton Obsessional Inventory-child version (LOI-C) and the State and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) - were assessed in 44 adolescent anorexia nervosa patients (mean age 14.7 years, SD 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To study nutritional abnormalities in adolescent anorexia nervosa and to establish whether certain abnormalities persist after short-term refeeding.
Method: Sixty-one patients (10-19 years old) admitted to a reference unit for eating disorders between 1999 and 2000 with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa were evaluated at admission and at discharge. A range of biochemical, nutritional, and hormonal parameters were determined.