Glida G Hidalgo

Background. Highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients minimizes viral replication, restores immune status and thus decreases morbidity and mortality. Objective. Determine hospitalization and mortality frequency in pediatric patients with HIV infection according to the type of antiretroviral treatment. Method. It was performed a clinical and retrospective study which included pediatric patients with HIV infection, attended at Hospital de Niños "J.M. de los Rios (Caracas, Venezuela) between 1993-2009. The recorded data were: year at first assessment, mechanism of viral transmission, immunological and virological status, antiretroviral treatment, need for hospitalization and death. Statistical analysis included Chi square. Results. 234 patients were evaluated: 73.1% (n=171) of vertical transmission and 26.9% (n=63) horizontal. Hospitalization and mortality decreased since 2000, when there was greater access to highly active antiretroviral therapy. Of all patien...

RESUMEN La menarquia es el principal evento de la pubertad femenina como marcador de la transición de la infancia a la edad adulta. Este trabajo persigue determinar la edad de la menarquia asociada a su estrato social en una muestra de 2.776 niñas y adolescentes de ...

Most studies of the human microbiome have focused on westernized people with life-style practices that decrease microbial survival and transmission, or on traditional societies that are currently in transition to westernization. We characterize the fecal, oral, and skin bacterial microbiome and resistome of members of an isolated Yanomami Amerindian village with no documented previous contact with Western people. These Yanomami harbor a microbiome with the highest diversity of bacteria and genetic functions ever reported in a human group. Despite their isolation, presumably for >11,000 years since their ancestors arrived in South America, and no known exposure to antibiotics, they harbor bacteria that carry functional antibiotic resistance (AR) genes, including those that confer resistance to synthetic antibiotics and are syntenic with mobilization elements. These results suggest that westernization significantly affects human microbiome diversity and that functional AR genes appear to be a feature of the human microbiome even in the absence of exposure to commercial antibiotics. AR genes are likely poised for mobilization and enrichment upon exposure to pharmacological levels of antibiotics. Our findings emphasize the need for extensive characterization of the function of the microbiome and resistome in remote nonwesternized populations before globalization of modern practices affects potentially beneficial bacteria harbored in the human body.

Newborns acquire their first microbiota at birth. Maternal vaginal or skin bacteria colonize newborns delivered vaginally or by C-section, respectively (Dominguez-Bello et al. 2010 #884). We aimed to determine differences in the presence of four tetracycline (tet) resistance genes, in the microbes of ten newborns and in the mouth and vagina of their mothers, at the time of birth. DNA was amplified by PCR with primers specific for [tet(M), tet(O), tet(Q), and tet(W)]. Maternal vaginas harbored all four tet resistance genes, but most commonly tet(M) and tet(O) (63 and 38 %, respectively). Genes coding for tet resistance differed by birth mode, with 50 % of vaginally delivered babies had tet(M) and tet(O) and 16 and 13 % of infants born by C-section had tet(O) and tet(W), respectively. Newborns acquire antibiotic resistance genes at birth, and the resistance gene profile varies by mode of delivery.

The human skin harbors complex bacterial communities. Prior studies showing high inter-individual variation focused on subjects from developed countries. We therefore compared cutaneous bacterial communities of Amerindians in the Venezuelan Amazon with subjects in the United States.
Forearm skin specimens were studied from healthy Amerindians in Platanillal village in Amazonas State, and from healthy persons in New York and Colorado. All skin sampling used similar swab/
buffer techniques. Multiplexed V2-targeted 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing yielded high quality sequences from 112 samples. The results show 20 phyla, with three (Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria) predominating. US residents and Venezuelan Amerindians had significantly different forearm skin bacterial community compositions, with United States dominated by Propionibacterium. Among the Amerindians, there was a deep split based on bacterial community membership, with 30 and 42 samples, respectively, falling into each of the two groups, not
associated with age, gender, or body mass index. One Amerindian group had diversity similar to the United States, but was dominated by Staphylococcus rather than Propionibacterium. The other Amerindian group was significantly more diverse and even than the US or the other Amerindian group, and featured a broad range of Proteobacteria. The results provide evidence that ethnicity, lifestyle and/or geography are associated with the structure of human cutaneous bacterial communities.

La medición de la presión arterial es fundamental en laevaluación clínica, así como su impacto en las áreas dela salud pública y la epidemiología. En este trabajo secompararon los percentiles para presión arterial delPrimer Estudio Nacional de Crecimiento y DesarrolloHumano de ...

Page 1. Tropentag, October 9-11, 2007, Witzenhausen “Utilisation of diversity in land use systems: Sustainable and organic approaches to meet human needs” Developing and Testing the Acceptability of Water Based Pineapple Ice Cream in the Venezuelan Amazon ...

Resumen En este estudio se obtuvieron harinas a partir de la manaca o acai (Euterpe oleracea Mart), de la batata (Ipomea batatas), y del ñame (Dioscorea spp.), especies vegetales cultivadas en el Amazonas venezolano. A dichas harinas se les determinó su ...