KasmeraPub Date : 2020-06-08DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.3861081
José G Prato-Moreno, Fernando C Millán-Marrero, Carly M Prada-Andrade, Claudiu Tănăselia, Lenis C Prado, M. E. Lucena, Iván Ríos-García, Luisa C. González-Ramírez
{"title":"Caracterización fisicoquímica y microbiológica de aguas subterráneas de un sector rural a baja altitud en Los Andes venezolanos","authors":"José G Prato-Moreno, Fernando C Millán-Marrero, Carly M Prada-Andrade, Claudiu Tănăselia, Lenis C Prado, M. E. Lucena, Iván Ríos-García, Luisa C. González-Ramírez","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3861081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3861081","url":null,"abstract":"Growth in human population and anthropogenic activities has increased the rate of groundwater pollution in the world, therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine the potability of water from four underground wells in a rural area of Mérida State, through the physicochemical and microbiological characterization, to check the feasibility of its use as drinking water. The results indicate that the physicochemical parameters comply with venezuelan regulations. The waters have a wide variety of minerals, highlighting Ca, Na and Mg as majority cations and a hardness basically due to bicarbonate ions. The values of the isotopic distribution suggest the existence of two aquifers without hydraulic connections between wells. Bacteriological and parasitological analysis detects: heterotrophic bacteria, total coliforms and Pseudomonas , as well as Ascaris spp., Blastocystis sp., Giardia sp., and Eimeria sp., probably derived from the underground filtration of septic tanks and percolated from the surface through the sandy clay loam soil, microorganisms that have adapted to the physicochemical characteristics of waters. The results show that the water from three wells cannot be used for consumption without some conventional treatment as filtration and coagulation, and disinfection process.","PeriodicalId":49944,"journal":{"name":"Kasmera","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74145151","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}
KasmeraPub Date : 2020-06-05DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.3870643
Lorena Abadía-Patiño, C. Rodríguez, J. Prin, Saul José Mosqueda Paraqueimo
{"title":"Estudio de la Inhibición de formación de biopelículas en cepas de Pseudomonas aeruginosa en presencia de própolis","authors":"Lorena Abadía-Patiño, C. Rodríguez, J. Prin, Saul José Mosqueda Paraqueimo","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3870643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3870643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49944,"journal":{"name":"Kasmera","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88894299","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}
KasmeraPub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.3872171
J. Castro-Jalca, Leonardo Mera-Villamar, M. Schettini-Alava
{"title":"Epidemiología de las enteroparasitosis en escolares de Manabí, Ecuador","authors":"J. Castro-Jalca, Leonardo Mera-Villamar, M. Schettini-Alava","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3872171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3872171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49944,"journal":{"name":"Kasmera","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80616587","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}
KasmeraPub Date : 2020-04-17DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.3754787
A. Murillo-Zavala, Zulbey Rivero, Angela Bracho-Mora
{"title":"Parasitosis intestinales y factores de riesgo de enteroparasitosis en escolares de la zona urbana del cantón Jipijapa, Ecuador","authors":"A. Murillo-Zavala, Zulbey Rivero, Angela Bracho-Mora","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3754787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3754787","url":null,"abstract":"Las enteroparasitosis presentan relevancia mundial predominando en países subdesarrollados. El objetivo de este estudio fue determinar la prevalencia de parásitos y factores de riesgo en 340 escolares del cantón Jipijapa. Se encontraron Endolimax nana, Blastocystis spp. y Enterobius vermicularis . Los factores de riesgo hallados concordaron con la baja prevalencia de especies parasitarias. Abstract Enteroparasitosis has global relevance predominantly in underdeveloped countries. The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasites and risk factors in 340 schoolchildren from the Jipijapa canton. The species were: Enterobius vermicularis, Blastocystis sp. and Endolimax nana and risk factors found agreed with the low prevalence of parasitic species.","PeriodicalId":49944,"journal":{"name":"Kasmera","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73665794","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}
KasmeraPub Date : 2020-04-10DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.3745322
N. Valero-Cedeño, Jhon Bryan Mina-Ortiz, Teresa Isabel Veliz-Castro, K. Merchán-Villafuerte, Armindo Perozo-Mena
{"title":"COVID-19: La nueva pandemia con muchas lecciones y nuevos retos. Revisión Narrativa","authors":"N. Valero-Cedeño, Jhon Bryan Mina-Ortiz, Teresa Isabel Veliz-Castro, K. Merchán-Villafuerte, Armindo Perozo-Mena","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3745322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3745322","url":null,"abstract":"El nuevo coronavirus (2019-nCoV, SARS-CoV-2 o COVID-19) que hasta el momento ha afectado a mas de 180 paises de casi todos los continentes, fue declarado por la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud como pandemia por su alcance mundial y hasta la fecha, ha sobrepasado el millon de casos de infectados, de los cuales el 5,54% han sido letales. La emergencia de esta enfermedad, se ha explicado por el surgimiento de un coronavirus humano desconocido con incrementados factores de virulencia. El numero exponencialmente creciente de casos en el mundo, refleja en parte la rapida transmision del COVID-19, que se traduce en una dura prueba para los sistemas de salud de los paises mas afectados. Los retos que ha representado esta pandemia, muchos han tenido sus bases en las lecciones aprendidas de la pandemia de SARS en 2003 y dado el parecido genomico de esta nueva cepa de coronavirus, ha sido designado como SARS-CoV-2. No obstante, los parecidos, hay muchas preguntas aun por responder, especialmente en lo que respecta a los mecanismos de transmision. Contar con datos detallados y precisos permitira comprender y hacer un seguimiento del alcance de esta pandemia y fortalecer los esfuerzos de prevencion y respuesta, en virtud que hasta el momento los tratamientos son experimentales y la vacuna podria estar disponible a mediano o largo plazo.","PeriodicalId":49944,"journal":{"name":"Kasmera","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80213630","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}
KasmeraPub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.3743470
Franklin Rouselbel Correa-Prieto
{"title":"Perú un escenario posible para coinfección entre COVID-19 y dengue","authors":"Franklin Rouselbel Correa-Prieto","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3743470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3743470","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49944,"journal":{"name":"Kasmera","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76882736","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}
{"title":"Fatalismo ante la posibilidad de contagio por el coronavirus: Generación y validación de un instrumento (F-COVID-19)","authors":"Mejia Christian, Rodríguez-Alarcón J Franco, Carbajal Macarena, Pérez-Espinoza Pierina, Porras-Carhuamaca Luz, Sifuentes-Rosales Jhesly, Contreras-Cabrera Jhuliana, Carranza-Esteban, Renzo Felipe, Ruiz-Mamani Percy","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3732353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3732353","url":null,"abstract":"El coronavirus ha generado una suerte de \"histeria colectiva\" en diversas poblaciones. Por lo tanto, nuestro objetivo fue validar un test que mida el fatalismo ante la posibilidad de contagio por el coronavirus. Se realizo un proceso de validacion en cinco fases: Busqueda de la literatura y construccion del primer borrador, juicio de fondo con 28 expertos, evaluacion de forma con 280 personas, piloto para analisis factorial exploratorio en 389 personas (en ambas se conto con 17 ciudades de Peru) y confirmacion de la validez del constructo final con 10 expertos. Los estadisticos de KMO (0,779) y Bartlett (572,6; gl = 21; p < 0,001) presentaron resultados aceptables y significativos. La varianza total explicada por los 7 items distribuidos en 2 factores es de 58,9%, lo cual es adecuado. Los analisis robustos muestran que la estructura factorial es satisfactoria (X2 = 21,161; p = 0,007; CFI = 0,984; GFI = 0,996; TLI = 0,957; RMSEA = 0,067 y RMSR = 0,033). Se genero una escala de 7 items para medir las medidas fatalistas que las personas podrian tener o tomar si es que llegasen a enfermarse del coronavirus","PeriodicalId":49944,"journal":{"name":"Kasmera","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73633319","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}
KasmeraPub Date : 2020-01-15DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.3593890
Sandra Villacís, Sixto Mena, J. Acosta, Edgar Mora-Brito, L. Leiva, Y. Carrero
{"title":"Dificultad en el diagnóstico de Paragonimiasis en centros de primer nivel. Reporte de un caso","authors":"Sandra Villacís, Sixto Mena, J. Acosta, Edgar Mora-Brito, L. Leiva, Y. Carrero","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.3593890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3593890","url":null,"abstract":"Patient who reports intake of crab without cooking presented a picture characterized by burning throat, respiratory distress and diarrheal depositions. Then cough and hemoptysis; went to a primary care center where they performed complementary exams establishing treatment without improvement, is referred to a hospital where Pulmonary Paragonimiasis was diagnosed.","PeriodicalId":49944,"journal":{"name":"Kasmera","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78306577","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}