Challenges for psychiatric recruitment and training in Chile.

This paper aims to describe the current challenges to recruitment of psychiatrists in Chile, and investigate factors related to interest in psychiatry from medical students of the Chilean Biobío Region. An online survey was completed by 39 medical students currently performing the internship. This survey included questions regarding socio-demographic aspects, probability of choosing a medical speciality, influencing factors on the choice of the medical speciality, and personal features.

[Determination of antibodies against A-60 antigen for diagnosis of M. tuberculosis infection. A useful tool for rationalization of chemoprophylaxis in HIV patients].

Objective: To identify M. tuberculosis infection in HIV patients by use of PPD and an ELISA test detecting the presence of antibodies against antigen A-60 of M. bovis.

Incidence of pericardial effusion in pulmonary tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis (TB) is one cause of pericardial disease. In order to know the incidence of tuberculous pericardial effusion (TPE) in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PT), the factors associated with their presence and whether human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients have a higher risk, we analyzed different parameters and performed an echocardiography to evaluate the presence of TPE. The incidence of TPE was 14.

[Seroepidemiology of Bartonella henselae infection in HIV-infected patients].

Background: Bartonella henselae infections are closely related to numerous clinical infections of growing interest in Spain. Since immunosuppressed patients are a potential risk group for infection by this bacteria, the aim of the present was to study the seroepidemiology of B. henselae infection in a risk group (patients with HIV infection) and in a control group (donors).

[Evaluation of methods of tick removal in human ixodidiasis].

Background: There are two questions regarding tick transmitted diseases (Ixodidae) not sufficiently elucidated: How to remove the arthropod? and: should antibiotic prophylaxis be administered after the bite?

Subjects And Methods: From June 1st, 1991, to December, 31, 1992, all patients who were attended at La Rioja Hospital relating immediate bite or tick bite within the 48 hours before were prospectively studied. In all those patients an epidemiological inquiry was obtained, which included, apart from personal data and risk factors for tick bites, how arthropods had been removed, health exam and blood drawn for serological study for Borrelia burgdorferi and Rickettsia conorii. The protocol was repeated at one, two, four and six months after the bite.