Leuconostocs son cocos Gram positivos en duplos y cortas cadenas, microaerófilicos, catalasa negativos, perteneciente a la familia Streptococcacea que han sido reconocido recientemente como patógeno potencial humano y que se caracterizan por su resistencia intrínseca a la vancomicina. Se los ha aislad...
La prueba cutànea de la leishmanina (reacciòn de Montenegro) es ùtil como mètodo de tamizaje para el diagnòstico epidemiològico de las leishmaniasis, permitiendo definir las zonas endèmicas para la enfermedad. Sòlo con una buena confiabilidad en los antìgenos se asegura que la prueba cutànea re...
Se presenta el caso de una paciente con ùlcera central en O.I., de 8 dìas de evoluciòn, con blefarospasmo, lagrimeo, ojo colorado. La ùlcera abarca todo el espesor de la còrnea y en una superficie de 1-1,5mm; iris y pupila no se ven. Se observan escoriaciones de rascado en ambos ojos; la paciente no...
Este es un estudio retrospectivo de corte transversal, descriptivo para determinar la frecuencia de patógenos oportunistas en hemocultivos de niños de 0 a 10 años, analizados en el Departamento de Microbiología del Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud. En número total de 58 casos y d...
The presence of microbial organisms in conjunctival secretions always raises the doubt of whether they are the result of contamination or a real infection. Culture records of conjunctival secretion from children, who attended the Laboratory of Microbiology of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias ...
Two hundred and fourteen prostitutes from Asunción were examined in order to determine the prevalence of cervical infection by Streptococcus B-hemolytic. The range of age was 18 to 28 years, and 21 percent of them showed Streptococcus infection, and only 30 percent of the isolate resulted sensible to pe...
Microbiologic study were done on a sample isolated from the end of a catheter used in a child who had devepoped acute bacterial meningitis after several admissons to hospital. The isolate was identified as Klebsiella pneumoniae which showed a remarkable multiresistance to the most common antibiotics used...
An etiological study of bacterial diarrhea in infants under five years of age in Paraguay from May to July of 1990 was done. Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) strains of known serogroups were isolate from 35.8 percent of the patients with diarrhea, Salmonella spp. were isolated from 15.1 percent , enteroto...
In order to determine the incidence and the etiology of the sexually trasnmitted diseaes (STD) 500 women, belonging to a high risk group (prostitutes), were studied from August, 1989 to Octuber 1990, and bacteriological and mycological studied were performed. Also, a questionnaire comprising detailed sex...
The prevalence of Candida albicans, Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, and trichomonas vaginalis as some of the most important agents of sexually transmditted disease (STD), were studied in 100 women, belonging to a high risk group (protitues). Also a questionnaire were provided, in order to determine the potential...
