SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.5 número2Prevalencia de Toxoplasmosis y Chagas en pacientes con VIH/SIDA índice de autoresíndice de materiabúsqueda de artículos
Home Pagelista alfabética de revistas  

Servicios Personalizados

Revista

Articulo

Indicadores

  • No hay articulos citadosCitado por SciELO

Links relacionados

  • No hay articulos similaresSimilares en SciELO

Compartir


Revista del Instituto de Medicina Tropical

versión impresa ISSN 1996-3696

Resumen

SAN MIGUEL, María Cristina; MONGELOS, Diego  y  MORINIGO, Raúl. Etiologic Diagnosis in Infectious Diseases. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. [online]. 2010, vol.5, n.2, pp.6-9. ISSN 1996-3696.

Background: The finding of a disease etiology is achieved through a wide range of laboratory tests with different sensitivity and specificity, and also subject to the availability in time and space to carry them. The most requested laboratory samples in infectious diseases are growing and cytochemical analysis of body fluids. We studied 300 medical records of patients admitted to the Adult Infectious Disease Service of the Institute of Tropical Medicine from January to November 2010, of which: 37.3% were respiratory infections, gastrointestinal infections and 34.3% 28 4% CNS infections. Ratio F: M 1:1.29 (56% F). The microbiological diagnosis was positive in 32%, 28% and 27% of patients with diseases of the respiratory Rev, Rev Gastrointestinal and CNS involvement, respectively, and the most common germs S. pneumoniae, C. and C. parvum neoformans in the order listed previously

Palabras clave : bacterial isolate; meningitis; pneumonia.

        · resumen en Español     · texto en Español     · Español ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License Todo el contenido de esta revista, excepto dónde está identificado, está bajo una Licencia Creative Commons