Brotes de histoplasmosis registrados en el área andina colombiana
A review of 12 histoplasmosis outbreaks that occurred in the Colombian Andean region, are presented. According to their location, 3 were detected in each of the following states: Tolima, Caldas and Antioquia and 1 each in Cundinamarca, Boyacá and Risaralda. In 9 of the outbreaks it was possible to t...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:a3534c5d28354de5964a30119fd9bb51 2023-05-15T15:08:54+02:00 Brotes de histoplasmosis registrados en el área andina colombiana Nelly Ordóñez Angela Tobón Myrtha Arango Angela Tabares Catalina De Bedout Beatriz Gómez Elizabeth Castañeda Angela Restrepo 1997-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v17i2.941 https://doaj.org/article/a3534c5d28354de5964a30119fd9bb51 EN ES eng spa Instituto Nacional de Salud http://www.revistabiomedica.org/index.php/biomedica/article/view/941 https://doaj.org/toc/0120-4157 0120-4157 doi:10.7705/biomedica.v17i2.941 https://doaj.org/article/a3534c5d28354de5964a30119fd9bb51 Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, Vol 17, Iss 2, Pp 105-11 (1997) Medicine R Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article 1997 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v17i2.941 2022-12-31T02:12:23Z A review of 12 histoplasmosis outbreaks that occurred in the Colombian Andean region, are presented. According to their location, 3 were detected in each of the following states: Tolima, Caldas and Antioquia and 1 each in Cundinamarca, Boyacá and Risaralda. In 9 of the outbreaks it was possible to trace the following activities which led to the infection: visits to bat-inhabited caves, removing debris incide a hollowed tree, demolition of an old house, use of contaminated lime for fertilization, handling chickenmanure fettilised soil and the severe pruning of coffee trees. Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum was isolated from environmental samples in 5 of the 8 outbreaks where it was feasible to obtain material for culture and animal inoculation. It was found that 332 persons had been in contact with the various infectious sources, including the 11 index cases (2 outbreaks had the same index case). All of them were studied by means of immunological tests designed to detect antibodies; based on the findings of reactive tests, al1 the index cases and 140 (42%) of those exposed had antibodies indicative of infection by the fungus. The above cases reveal the importance of histoplasmosis in immunocompetent individuals who, for occupational or recreational reasons, are exposed to infectious aerosols generated when disturbing the natural habitat of H. capsulatum var. capsulatum. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Biomédica 17 2 105 |
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A review of 12 histoplasmosis outbreaks that occurred in the Colombian Andean region, are presented. According to their location, 3 were detected in each of the following states: Tolima, Caldas and Antioquia and 1 each in Cundinamarca, Boyacá and Risaralda. In 9 of the outbreaks it was possible to trace the following activities which led to the infection: visits to bat-inhabited caves, removing debris incide a hollowed tree, demolition of an old house, use of contaminated lime for fertilization, handling chickenmanure fettilised soil and the severe pruning of coffee trees. Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum was isolated from environmental samples in 5 of the 8 outbreaks where it was feasible to obtain material for culture and animal inoculation. It was found that 332 persons had been in contact with the various infectious sources, including the 11 index cases (2 outbreaks had the same index case). All of them were studied by means of immunological tests designed to detect antibodies; based on the findings of reactive tests, al1 the index cases and 140 (42%) of those exposed had antibodies indicative of infection by the fungus. The above cases reveal the importance of histoplasmosis in immunocompetent individuals who, for occupational or recreational reasons, are exposed to infectious aerosols generated when disturbing the natural habitat of H. capsulatum var. capsulatum. |
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