Search results for "Microbiologia mèdica"
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Microbiological testing of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: an international study
2018
This study aimed to describe real-life microbiological testing of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and to assess concordance with the 2007 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)/American Thoracic Society (ATS) and 2011 European Respiratory Society (ERS) CAP guidelines. This was a cohort study based on the Global Initiative for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Pneumonia (GLIMP) database, which contains point-prevalence data on adults hospitalised with CAP across 54 countries during 2015. In total, 3702 patients were included. Testing was performed in 3217 patients, and included blood culture (71.1%), sputum culture (61.8%), Legionella urinary anti…
Bayesian approach to urinary ESBL-producing Escherichia coli
2014
This is a retrospective study about the prevalence of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli (EEC) in urinary specimens from patients from the Comunitat Valenciana from January 2007 to December 2008. Data were retrieved from RedMIVA, and Bayesian generalized linear mixed models were considered to study the prevalence of EEC with regard to demographical and microbiological factors. The total number of infections considered was 164,502, the amount of urinary isolates was 70,827 belonging to 49,304 different patients, and 5,161 (7.3%) of the urinary isolates were EEC. Three out of four E. coli were isolated in women (76.8%), men showed higher rates of EEC (9.7% in men vs. 6.5% in women). EEC patients…
Similarity-Based Virtual Screening to Find Antituberculosis Agents Based on Novel Scaffolds: Design, Syntheses and Pharmacological Assays
2022
A method to identify molecular scaffolds potentially active against the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) is developed. A set of structurally heterogeneous agents against MTBC was used to obtain a mathematical model based on topological descriptors. This model was statistically validated through a Leave-n-Out test. It successfully discriminated between active or inactive compounds over 86% in database sets. It was also useful to select new potential antituberculosis compounds in external databases. The selection of new substituted pyrimidines, pyrimidones and triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines was particularly interesting because these structures could provide new scaffolds in this field. T…
Luis del Río y Lara y la constitución de la microbiología médica en España
1988
La Microbiologia mèdica es va consolidar a Espanya, com en la resta d'Europa, en els últims decennis del segle XIX. En el quinquenni comprés entre 1881 i 1885, es van dur a terme les primeres aplicacions de la nova ciència a la resolució de problemes mèdics com les epidèmies, tenint com a base la informació europea i algunes investigacions originals. Els últims anys del segle van veure la definitiva cristal·lització de la Microbiologia mèdica. Un dels seus màxims exponents va ser Luis del Riu i Lara i la seua obra “Elementos de Microbiología”. Investigador profundament coneixedor de les noves tècniques microbiològiques, la seua labor com a bacteriòleg ha quedat enfosquida per la seua intens…
Emilio Fernández Galiano y la biología de los protozoos en España
2021
En els inicis del segle XX l'estudi dels protozous a Espanya estava delimitat a les espècies paràsites de l'home al qual causaven greus malalties. Emilio Fernández Galiano va estudiar protozoologia com a part del seu interés per la citologia i la histologia i podem dir que va introduir a Espanya l'estudi d'aquests microorganismes des de la visió del naturalista. Com a naturalista li van interessar els protozous i els seus moviments amb minuciositat, i fruit d'això va escriure el primer text en espanyol sobre la biologia d'aquests microorganismes, “Morfología y Biología de los Protozoos”, amb un contingut més enllà de l'interés mèdic-sanitari, desenvolupant una important activitat divulgativ…