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    Bacteriemias en pacientes oncológicos del Instituto del Cáncer SOLCA. Cuenca, 2011-2016
    (2019) Alvarado Corral, Raúl Francisco
    Objective: to characterize the episodes of bacteremia, the causative microorganisms and their patterns of sensitivity in patients treated at the Cancer Institute SOLCA - Cuenca, Ecuador.Methodology: a descriptive design was applied. The study focused on all episodes of bacteremia occurred in the period 2011-2016, they were verified by blood cultures. The variables studied were age and sex of the patients in whom the bacteremia occurred; type of tumor, microorganism, time of positivization and resistance profile.Results: a total of 318 episodes were identified. The 66.8% of the isolated microorganisms were gram-negative bacteria and 33.2% gram-positive; the most prevalent were Escherichia coli 37.3%, Staphylococcus aureus 17.9%, Klebsiella.spp 9.3%, Staphylococcus coagulase negative 7.2% and Pseudomonasaeruginosa 5.1%. In gram-positive cocci, methicillin resistance was 40% in Staphylococcus.aureus and 67% in coagulase-negative Staphylococcus; Escherichia.coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae were resistant to third-generation cephalosporins by 29% and 47% respectively, compatible with the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase phenotype; the resistance to quinolones was 35% and 50% respectively.Conclusions: the gram-negative bacteria were the most prevalent microorganisms in this study, mainly the enterobacteria, with an important resistance to the antibiotics tested
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    Tuberculosis: detección de casos y control terapéutico, provincia del Cañar parroquia Juncal 1991
    (1992) Guamán Torres, Julio Guillermo; Hurtado Bustamante, Pablo Francisco; Jordán Cevallos, Lorena Fabiola; Loja Llanos, Angel Gerardo; Loyola Crespo, María Isabel; Andino Vélez, José Gerardo