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Pregnancy , Infant, Newborn , Infant , Humans , Female , Infant Mortality , Maternal Mortality , Mortality , Chile , Health Status IndicatorsABSTRACT
El propósito de este estudio consistió en precisar la utilidad de la colecistectomía en la supresión del estado de portador de salmonelas, mediante el examen de deposiciones y bilis, en enfermos que habían sido operados y cuyo bilicultivo, en el momento de extirpar la vesícula, reveló la presencia de Salmonella typhi o paratyphi (AU)
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Cholecystectomy/statistics & numerical data , Salmonella typhi/isolation & purification , Salmonella paratyphi A/isolation & purification , ChileABSTRACT
La elevada morbilidad de la fiebre tifoidea en Chile, junto a los datos demostrativos de que existe una correlación entre el estado portador de S. typhi y las colecistopatías encontradas en otros lugares, condujo a analizar 1.000 muestras de bilis de pacientes con colecistopatía. Los resultados indican que la prevalencia excepcionalmente elevada de colecistopatías en Chile constituye un factor importante en la transmisión de la fiebre tifoidea (AU)
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Typhoid Fever/transmission , Cholecystectomy/trends , Chile/epidemiologyABSTRACT
El proposito de este estudio consistio en precisar la utilidad de la colecistectomia en la supresion del estado de portador de salmonelas, mediante el examen de deposiciones y bilis, en enfermos que habian sido operados y cuyo bilicultivo, en el momento de extirpar la vesicula, revelo la presencia de Salmonella typhi o paratyphi
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Cholecystectomy , Salmonella paratyphi A/isolation & purification , Salmonella typhi/isolation & purification , ChileABSTRACT
La elevada morbilidad de la fiebre tifoidea en Chile, junto a los datos demostrativos de que existe una correlacion entre el estado de portador de S. typhi y las colecistopatias encontradas en otros lugares, condujo a analizar 1000 muestras de bilis de pacientes con colecistopatia. Los resultados indican que la prevalencia excepcionalmente elevada de colecistopatias en Chile constituye un factor importante en la transmision de la fiebre tifoidea
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Carrier State , Cholecystectomy/trends , Typhoid Fever/transmission , Gallbladder Diseases , Salmonella paratyphi A , Salmonella typhi , Chile/epidemiology , Typhoid FeverABSTRACT
The success of a vaccination campaign depends, among other things, on the efficacy and cost of the vaccine, ease of application, possible secondary effects, community acceptance, and degree of development of the public health services responsible for the campaign. Attempts should be made to prevent the campaign from interferign with others of equal or greater importance, and to ensure its indefinite upkeep by making both human and material resources available at the required levels. Suitable coverage of urban population centers and hard to reach rural areas is recommended, because even in countries where 70 to 80 per cent of the population has been vaccinated it is not unusual to have a sudden epidemic outbreak. There is special mention of smallpox, DPT, and poliomyelitis vaccines, some of which may be applied in combinations of two or more provided they do not interfere with each other
In the case of smallpox vaccine, a choice will have to be made among the classical methods of scarification, multipressure, multipuncture, and the various types of jet injectors available, especially those activated by a foot pump, which produce a very high yield, but are expensive
By making a careful study of the more important factors of a vaccination campaign, the morbidity and mortality figures for infectious diseases can be reduced considerably(AU)
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Immunization Programs/standards , Immunologic Techniques/methods , Communicable Disease Control , Central America , South America , North America , Latin AmericaABSTRACT
The fact that an immunizing agent exists does not of itself imply that a communicable disease can be reduced to the point of eradication. Factors at least as important are a sound knowledge of the most efficient means of carrying out immunization, proper technical and administrative resources, and a health service structure so organized as to make the best use of the procedures available.
