Cervicovaginal and rectal colonization by group B Streptococci in Mexican women with full-term pregnancies.

Background: A pregnant woman rectally or vaginally colonized by group B Streptococcus can infect her newborn.

Patients And Methods: Prospective, cross-sectional, analytical 24-month study in pregnant women. Women in labor with ≥ 36 weeks of gestation were included.

[Usefulness of establishing diagnosis and severity of the most frequent signs and symptoms in preeclamptic patients].

Objective: Our aim was to determine that signs and symptoms are tools in establishing diagnosis and severity of preeclampsia.

Materials And Methods: Our study design was prolective, comparative, cross-sectional for evaluation of diagnosis. Our sample included 408 patients.

Disabling spondyloarthrosis risk factors in valley of Mexico workers.

Background: The objective of this study was to describe the most prevalent physically disabling conditions for insured workers belonging to the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) in the Valley of Mexico and to identify risk factors for disabling spondyloarthrosis.

Methods: Retrospective cases and prevalent controls from IMSS clinics in the Mexico City metropolitan area were studied. Eighty cases were IMSS workers reporting disability due to spondyloarthrosis; 80 controls were active workers at the same workplace and shared the economic activity of the cases.