ABSTRACT
Continuando con los casos clínicos de Endocrinología, se presenta una niña de diez años derivada de un centro de salud por alteraciones de la hormona estimulante del tiroides. En este artículo trataremos especialmente de la disminución de la función tiroidea (hipotiroidismo) (AU)
Continuing with clinical cases in endocrinology we report the case of a 10 years old girl referred from a primary care center with thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) alteration. In this paper well specially address the reduction in thyroid function (hypothyroidism) (AU)
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Humans , Female , Child , Thyrotropin, beta Subunit , Thyrotropin, beta Subunit , Hypothyroidism/complications , Hypothyroidism/diagnosis , Hypothyroidism/therapy , Thyroxine/therapeutic use , Hashimoto Disease/complications , Hashimoto Disease/diagnosis , Thyroid Diseases/epidemiology , Thyroid Diseases/prevention & control , Thyroid Function Tests/methods , Thyroid Gland/physiopathology , Primary Health Care/methodsABSTRACT
Arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR) was used to differentiate strains of Legionella pneumophila isolated from different water sources in a resort hotel in Benidorm, Alicante, Spain, where an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease occurred among a group of tourists between 65 and 80 years of age. All isolates were L. pneumophila serogroup 1, subtype Pontiac (Knoxville 1). Five different patterns (P1 to P5) were obtained by AP-PCR. The number of bands per pattern varied between 4 and 11. Patterns P1 and P2 represented 60 and 20% of L. pneumophila isolates, respectively. Since different subpopulations of L. pneumophila coexisted (up to three different AP-PCR patterns were identified in a single room), it was not possible to link an individual L. pneumophila strain to the occurrence of this outbreak.
