InfectioPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.22354/IN.V26I2.1009
Julieth Carolina Castillo-Cañón, Silvia Juliana Trujillo-Cáceres, C. Álvarez-Moreno, A. Valbuena-Garcia, Ricardo Luque-Núñez, C. Ríos-Hincapié, L. Acuña-Merchán
{"title":"Colombian HIV/AIDS registry and health risk management","authors":"Julieth Carolina Castillo-Cañón, Silvia Juliana Trujillo-Cáceres, C. Álvarez-Moreno, A. Valbuena-Garcia, Ricardo Luque-Núñez, C. Ríos-Hincapié, L. Acuña-Merchán","doi":"10.22354/IN.V26I2.1009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22354/IN.V26I2.1009","url":null,"abstract":"HIV/AIDS information systems are a critical tool for keeping track of the HIV pandemic in any country, leading to the AIDS elimination to 2030 and achievement of the 95-95-95 goals set by 2025. In this article, we describe the data management process of the Colombian National HIV/AIDS registry, its epidemiological results and contributions to research and health risk management. This registry is a longitudinal database. Variables and periodicity are defined by The Ministry of Health and Social Protection. Reporting is done by health insurers and their healthcare providers on annual bases. The information is uploaded through a web platform run by the High-Cost Diseases Fund, in charge of the validation, auditing process, consolidation, analysis and publication of the data. Security and confidentiality of the information is also taken care of by the High-Cost Disease Fund. Main results include epidemiological follow up of the epidemic, periodic evaluation of 25 risk management indicators, publication of research studies and the calculation of an economic incentive for insurers to improve health risk management. The registry has shown to be useful not only for the management of clinical information but also for administrative purposes.","PeriodicalId":38132,"journal":{"name":"Infectio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43177996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfectioPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.22354/IN.V26I2.1010
C. Cadavid, Teresa Realpe, G. Mejía, E. Zapata, Mauricio Hernández, Jaime Robledo
{"title":"Contribución del uso de XPERT MTB/RIF y su costo-efectividad en el diagnóstico de tuberculosis pulmonar y la resistencia a rifampicina: una comparación con métodos diagnósticos no moleculares","authors":"C. Cadavid, Teresa Realpe, G. Mejía, E. Zapata, Mauricio Hernández, Jaime Robledo","doi":"10.22354/IN.V26I2.1010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22354/IN.V26I2.1010","url":null,"abstract":"Introducción: La tuberculosis es un problema de salud pública; su control requiere diagnóstico temprano y tratamiento oportuno. Xpert MTB/RIF® es una tecnología diagnóstica basada en PCR en tiempo real, detecta el Complejo Mycobacterium tuberculosis y la susceptibilidad a rifampicina. Objetivo: Determinar la contribución del Xpert MTB/RIF y su costo-efectividad en la detección de tuberculosis y la resistencia a rifampicina en muestras respiratorias al compararlo con métodos de diagnóstico no moleculares. Materiales y Métodos: Se analizaron 1.574 muestras de pacientes con sospecha de tuberculosis pulmonar que fueron procesadas para microscopía con coloración fluorescente de auramina-rodamina, Xpert MTB/RIF y cultivo en BACTEC MGIT 960. Los resultados obtenidos se compararon entre los métodos no moleculares y los moleculares para la detección de M. tuberculosis y susceptibilidad a rifampicina y se realizó un análisis comparativo de costos y costo efectividad. Resultados: 19,2% de las muestras fueron positivas por alguna de las técnicas usadas. Xpert MTB/RIF detectó M. tuberculosis en 90,4% del total de muestras positivas con un índice Kappa de 0,77 (IC95%: 0,74-0,82) comparado con el cultivo. La resistencia a rifampicina por Xpert fue 8,1%, sensibilidad 94,1% (IC95%: 73,0–99,0%), especificidad 98,4% (IC95%: 95,5–99,5%) y Kappa de 0,88 (IC95%: 0,76-1,00). La razón incremental de costo efectividad (RICE) fue menor en Xpert MTB/RIF comparada con el cultivo. Conclusión: Xpert MTB/RIF es una prueba eficiente y costo efectiva en la detección de casos de M. tuberculosis en muestras pulmonares comparado con los métodos de diagnóstico basados en cultivo, sin embargo y a diferencia del Xpert MTB/RIF, estos pueden aportar en el diagnóstico con el aislamiento de especies de micobacterias no tuberculosas y la susceptibilidad a isoniazida y otros medicamentos.","PeriodicalId":38132,"journal":{"name":"Infectio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48838700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfectioPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.22354/IN.V26I2.1020
C. Morales-Cardona, Mariana Romero-Porras
{"title":"Molusco contagioso del párpado: manifestación cutánea de inmunosupresión","authors":"C. Morales-Cardona, Mariana Romero-Porras","doi":"10.22354/IN.V26I2.1020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22354/IN.V26I2.1020","url":null,"abstract":"El molusco contagioso es una infección viral cutánea, usualmente benigna y autolimitada, causada por un virus del género Molluscipoxvirus. Es más frecuente en niños, adultos jóvenes sexualmente activos e inmunosuprimidos. La lesión clínica característica es una pápula umbilicada eucrómica o de tono perlado, que se disemina rápidamente y puede afectar cualquier superficie muco-cutánea, aunque la localización en los párpados es atípica. Se presentan dos casos de pacientes jóvenes inmunosuprimidos, con moluscos contagiosos palpebrales, en quienes el diagnóstico clínico inicial fue incorrecto. Se enfatiza la importancia de diagnosticar oportunamente las lesiones papulares que afectan la piel del párpado ya que la presencia de molusco contagioso en esta zona se considera una manifestación cutánea de inmunosupresión.","PeriodicalId":38132,"journal":{"name":"Infectio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49113255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfectioPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.22354/IN.V26I2.1021
Claudia Martínez-Córdoba, Lina Muñoz-Salazar, Carlos Contreras-Vargas, Luis Alberto Ruiz-Robles
{"title":"Infección de cavidad anoftálmica por Scedosporium sp. en paciente inmunocompetente: Reporte de caso","authors":"Claudia Martínez-Córdoba, Lina Muñoz-Salazar, Carlos Contreras-Vargas, Luis Alberto Ruiz-Robles","doi":"10.22354/IN.V26I2.1021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22354/IN.V26I2.1021","url":null,"abstract":"Scedosporium sp. es un género de hongos filamentosos que de forma infrecuente se relaciona a infecciones localizadas o diseminadas en pacientes inmunocomprometidos, o inmunocompetentes con trauma penetrante contaminado. Reportamos el caso de un paciente masculino de 31 años con antecedente de trauma penetrante por arma de fuego requiriendo enucleación de su ojo izquierdo, quien 12 años posterior al trauma inicial presenta necrosis de la cavidad anoftálmica con extrusión del implante y lisis del párpado inferior, finalmente identificando Scedosporium sp. como germen causal, y un mucocele en el seno frontal como reservorio. El paciente recibió tratamiento médico con voriconazol sistémico, desbridamiento quirúrgico amplio, y resección endoscópica del quiste de retención mucoso, con una evolución satisfactoria. Las infecciones micóticas de la cavidad anoftálmica son infrecuentes, requiriendo una alta sospecha diagnóstica y tratamiento agresivo para evitar consecuencias potencialmente devastadoras.","PeriodicalId":38132,"journal":{"name":"Infectio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47706324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfectioPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.22354/IN.V26I2.1012
Joshuan J. Barboza, Diego Chambergo-Michilot, M. Velásquez-Sotomayor, Christian Silva-Rengifo, Christoper A. Alarcón-Ruiz, A. RodrÍguez-Morales, Germán Málaga, Giordano Pérez-Gaxiola
{"title":"Material suplementario. Enfermedad de Kawasaki, enfermedad similar a Kawasaki y MIS-C asociado a COVID-19 en niños: revisión sistemática","authors":"Joshuan J. Barboza, Diego Chambergo-Michilot, M. Velásquez-Sotomayor, Christian Silva-Rengifo, Christoper A. Alarcón-Ruiz, A. RodrÍguez-Morales, Germán Málaga, Giordano Pérez-Gaxiola","doi":"10.22354/IN.V26I2.1012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22354/IN.V26I2.1012","url":null,"abstract":"Material suplementario: Enfermedad de Kawasaki, enfermedad similar a Kawasaki y MIS-C asociado a COVID-19 en niños: revisión sistemática","PeriodicalId":38132,"journal":{"name":"Infectio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42346540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfectioPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.22354/IN.V26I2.1015
Stephany Barbosa, Ó. Muñoz, Alejandra Cañas Arboleda, A. A. García, Peter Olejua, Melissa Díaz
{"title":"Cambio en la mortalidad intrahospitalaria durante el primer pico por SARS- COV-2 en Bogotá, Colombia","authors":"Stephany Barbosa, Ó. Muñoz, Alejandra Cañas Arboleda, A. A. García, Peter Olejua, Melissa Díaz","doi":"10.22354/IN.V26I2.1015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22354/IN.V26I2.1015","url":null,"abstract":"Introducción: La mortalidad por SARS-COV-2 ha disminuido en diferentes países, pero no se ha evaluado si es igual en Colombia, o si se relaciona con las características de los pacientes y tratamientos utilizados. Objetivo: Comparar la mortalidad por SARS-COV-2, en dos periodos de tiempo controlando por factores de riesgo asociados con mortalidad. Metodología: Estudio observacional, basado en una cohorte retrospectiva de pacientes con SARS-COV-2 atendidos en el Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogotá (Colombia), desde el 19 de marzo al 12 de noviembre, 2020. Se comparó la tasa de mortalidad intrahospitalaria de los pacientes egresados antes y después del 21 de agosto de 2020 (primer pico de mortalidad en Colombia) y se analizó el impacto del momento de atención controlando por comorbilidades, severidad al ingreso y tratamiento recibido, usando un modelo de regresión logística. Resultados: 1399 pacientes (944 antes y 455 después del primer pico de mortalidad) fueron analizados. La tasa de mortalidad intrahospitalaria global fue similar en ambos periodos (17.6% vs 16.3%, p=0.539). En el análisis multivariado se encontró que la atención en el segundo periodo de tiempo se asoció a menor mortalidad (OR 0.66 IC95% 0.47; 0.93, p=0.018), a diferencia del aumento de la misma asociado a la edad (OR 1.06 IC95% 1.05; 1.07, p<0.001), sexo masculino (OR 1.84 IC95% 1.33; 2.54 p<0.001), cirrosis (OR 1.89 IC95% 1.24; 2.88, p=0.003), enfermedad renal (OR 1.36 IC95% 1.00; 1.83, p=0.043) y el uso de dexametasona (OR 1.53 IC95% 1.03; 2.28, p=0.031). Conclusiones: La tasa de mortalidad intrahospitalaria se redujo después del 21 de agosto durante la primera ola de la pandemia en Bogotá, posiblemente asociado a la mejoría en la capacidad de respuesta del sistema de salud en ese momento, o a un menor inoculo viral de los pacientes infectados. Estos hallazgos pueden cambiar con la saturación del sistema de salud.","PeriodicalId":38132,"journal":{"name":"Infectio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48498471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfectioPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.22354/IN.V26I2.1017
Jhonatan Rabanal, M. Zimic
{"title":"Statistical analysis of 484 Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes reveals an association between single nucleotide polymorphisms on ponA1 gene and LAM and Haarlem lineages","authors":"Jhonatan Rabanal, M. Zimic","doi":"10.22354/IN.V26I2.1017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22354/IN.V26I2.1017","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: Evaluate the association between rifampicin resistance and the presence of at least one SNP in the rpoB and ponA1 genes and the spoligotype defined lineages. Material and Methods: This study analyzed two databases of 484 genomes of M. tuberculosis from strains isolated from patients in the cities of Lima and Callao, for which the odds ratio (OR) was calculated considering belonging to a certain spoligotype defined lineages as an exposure factor. Results: No statistically significant association (? value> 0.05) was found between the presence of at least one SNP in the rpoB gene and the lineages included in the study (LAM, Haarlem, T and Beijing). However, a statistically significant association was found between the presence of at least one SNP in the ponA1 gene and the LAM and Haarlem lineages (? value <0.05). An association was found between the P631S SNP in the ponA1 gene and the LAM and Haarlem lineages; and the A516T SNP, of this same gene, presented an association with the LAM lineage. Likewise, an association was found between rifampicin resistance and the LAM lineage. Conclusions: The presence of SNPs in the ponA1 gene is associated with the LAM and Haarlem lineages.","PeriodicalId":38132,"journal":{"name":"Infectio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43928180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfectioPub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.22354/IN.V26I2.1007
A. Rodríguez-Morales, G. Camacho-Moreno, Henry Mendoza-Ramírez, Iván Arturo Rodríguez-Sabogal, J. Oñate
{"title":"Challenges and Visions for Infectious Diseases in Colombia during the COVID-19 Peripandemic Transition 2021-2023","authors":"A. Rodríguez-Morales, G. Camacho-Moreno, Henry Mendoza-Ramírez, Iván Arturo Rodríguez-Sabogal, J. Oñate","doi":"10.22354/IN.V26I2.1007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22354/IN.V26I2.1007","url":null,"abstract":"Challenges and Visions for Infectious Diseases in Colombia during the COVID-19 Peripandemic Transition 2021-2023","PeriodicalId":38132,"journal":{"name":"Infectio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47800691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfectioPub Date : 2021-08-14DOI: 10.22354/in.v26i1.988
Katherine Bedoya, L. Galeano, M. Hincapié, J. A. Mesa, J. Alzate
{"title":"Bacterial diversity analysis of freshwater sources for human use in rural areas of the tropical Andean region of Colombia","authors":"Katherine Bedoya, L. Galeano, M. Hincapié, J. A. Mesa, J. Alzate","doi":"10.22354/in.v26i1.988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22354/in.v26i1.988","url":null,"abstract":"1 Centro Nacional de Secuenciación Genómica CNSG, Universidad de Antioquia -UdeA, Medellín, Colombia Carrera 53 # 61 – 30, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia. 2 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7403-7373 3 Universidad de Medellín, Facultad de Ingeniería, Medellín, Colombia Cra. 87 #30-65, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia. 4 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5467-9958 5 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3009-8312 6 Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia -UdeA, Cra. 51d #62-29, Medellín, Colombia. https:// orcid.org/ 0000-0003-2578-4609 Recibido: 01/03/2021; Aceptado: 04/06/2021","PeriodicalId":38132,"journal":{"name":"Infectio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48509658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfectioPub Date : 2021-08-14DOI: 10.22354/in.v26i1.1003
C. Ramos-Vera
{"title":"The evidence of Bayesian A/B testing in the contrast of clinical events by COVID-19","authors":"C. Ramos-Vera","doi":"10.22354/in.v26i1.1003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22354/in.v26i1.1003","url":null,"abstract":"Cómo citar este artículo: C. Ramos-Vera. The evidence of Bayesian A/B testing in the contrast of clinical events by COVID-19. Infectio 2022; 26(1): 99-100 Sr. Editor: The clinical investigations reported in this journal employ the standard framework of frequentist statistics based on significance assumptions (p < 0.05). This method leads to a dichotomization of the results as “significant” or “non-significant” requiring the evaluation of statistical hypotheses1. Therefore, the use of the Bayesian approach is important as an improved way of drawing statistical conclusions from clinical data since it facilitates the answer to the question, what is the probability that the effect is conclusive based on the data, which provides greater validity to the significant conclusions. One of the best known methods is the Bayes factor (FB), which estimates the probability of one hypothesis relative to the other given the data (e.g., null hypothesis vs alternate hypothesis)1,2, this allows estimation of the weight of evidence (10 times the decimal logarithm value of the FB)3,4, useful for decision making of significant findings, where results with evidence values greater than 20 are optimal for clinical decision making.","PeriodicalId":38132,"journal":{"name":"Infectio","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44004882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}