ABSTRACT
La presencia de alcohol en la sangre en una autopsia médico legal tiene diversos matices de interpretación. Si se trata de un accidente de tránsito puede indicar uno de los factores que contribuyó a que ocurriera, si se trata de un suicidio puede sugerir que la persona no estaba dentro de sus facultades mentales usuales, lo cual contribuyó a que tomara una decisión tan drástica y peor aún, si se encuentra en un menor o lactante generará controversia. Este artículo pretende aclarar el mecanismo de producción endógeno de alcohol en el cuerpo humano en procesos como la digestión y la putrefacción para interpretar resultados de alcoholemias o de presencia de etanol en otros fluidos del organismo cuando no se pueden explicar por la ingesta usual.
The presence of alcohol in the blood in a forensic autopsy has different nuances of interpretation. If it is a traffic accident may indicate one of the factors that contributed to its occurrence, whether it is a suicide it may suggest that the person was not within their usual mental faculties, which helped to take such a drastic decision and even worse, if you are a child or infant will generate controversy. This article aims to clarify the mechanism of endogenous production of alcohol in the human body processes such as digestion and putrefaction to interpret results of blood alcohol or ethanol in the presence of body fluids when others can not be explained by the usual intake.
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Humans , Male , Autopsy , Breath Tests , Ethanol , Forensic MedicineABSTRACT
The presence of microbial organisms in conjunctival secretions always raises the doubt of whether they are the result of contamination or a real infection. Culture records of conjunctival secretion from children, who attended the Laboratory of Microbiology of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud and the consulting roon of the Hospital de Clinícas from January 1990 to July 1992, were analyzed to determine the most frequent infectious agenis. The most commonly microorganism foud was Staphylococcus aureus (36.4 percent of the cases), followed by Streptococcus viridans (21.2 percent), Streptococcus pneumoniae (15 percent) pseudomonas aeruginosa (9 percent) and Neisseria gonorroheae (6 peecent). Nor Haemophilus influenzae neither fungi were detected
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Child , Haemophilus , Neisseria gonorrhoeae , Pseudomonas aeruginosa , Staphylococcus aureus , Streptococcus pneumoniae , ParaguayABSTRACT
The prevalence of Candida albicans, Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, and trichomonas vaginalis as some of the most important agents of sexually transmditted disease (STD), were studied in 100 women, belonging to a high risk group (protitues). Also a questionnaire were provided, in order to determine the potential risk of transmission of STD at the time of the survey. The prevalence of the infection by Candida albicans in the genital tract were 7 percent, and 8 percent and 10 percent for Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Trichomonas vaginalis, respectively. In some cases, inappropriate sexual behavior, as well as high number of sexual contacts with different clients, were detected
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Candida albicans , Sexually Transmitted Diseases/prevention & control , Neisseria gonorrhoeae , Trichomonas vaginalisABSTRACT
In order to determine the incidence and the etiology of the sexually trasnmitted diseaes (STD) 500 women, belonging to a high risk group (prostitutes), were studied from August, 1989 to Octuber 1990, and bacteriological and mycological studied were performed. Also, a questionnaire comprising detailed sexual behavior were rendered. High incidence of Gardnerella vaginalis (41.4 percent), Neisseria gonorrhoeae (12.2 percent), Trichomonas vaginalis (10.2 percent) and Candida albicans (10 percent) were found, in contrast with the low level found for Lactobacillus sp. The questinnaire revealed very low utilization of contraceptives as well as condom employement