El Instituto Nacional de Salud, en cumplimiento de su rol rector en investigación, contando con recurso humano altamente especializado en su Red de Laboratorios y personal de salud multidisciplinario con experiencia en investigación ha contribuido en el contexto del reciente brote de casos del Síndrome de Guillain Barré, a través de la realización e implementación de pruebas de diagnóstico especializadas (pruebas de genotipificación, pruebas de diagnóstico múltiple, secuenciamiento genómico), capacitación en las regiones que requerían fortalecimiento en la realización de pruebas diagnósticas, actividades de transferencia tecnológica en campo.

Según el Centro Nacional de Epidemiología Control y Prevención de Enfermedades del Ministerio de Salud del Perú, el último reporte (al 3 de julio del 2019), notifica 653 de SGB, de los cuales 232 son casos confirmados y 421 sospechosos.

En el marco de la Vigilancia de Vibrio cholerae O139, que el Instituto Nacional de Salud tiene establecido a través de los Laboratorios del Sistema de la Red Nacional, el 13 de diciembre del presente año llegó al Laboratorio de Enteropatógenos del Centro Nacional de Salud Pública una cepa enviada por el Laboratorio de Referencia DISA II Lima Sur, procedente del Centro Materno Infantil (C.M.I.) San José de Villa el Salvador, de una paciente de 15 años, con un cuadro clínico de diarrea acuosa, no catalogada como coleriforme. En el coprocultivo realizado se obtuvo un aislamiento compatible con Vibrio cholerae.

Pseudoalteromonas is a genus of marine bacteria often found in association with other organisms. Although several studies have examined Pseudoalteromonas diversity and their antimicrobial activity, its diversity in tropical environments is largely unexplored. We investigated the diversity of Pseudoalteromonas in marine environments of Panama using a multilocus phylogenetic approach. Furthermore we tested their antimicrobial capacity and evaluated the effect of recombination and mutation in shaping their phylogenetic relationships. The reconstruction of clonal relationships among 78 strains including 15 reference Pseudoalteromonas species revealed 43 clonal lineages, divided in pigmented and non-pigmented strains. In total, 39 strains displayed moderate to high activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and fungi. Linkage disequilibrium analyses showed that the Pseudoaltero...

Candida auris is an emerging fungus that has gained great relevance as a global public health problem in a short time. The presence of Candida auris in 3 adult patients admitted to a national hospital of high complexity in the last quarter of 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic is reported for the first time in Peru. The patients were hospitalized in the ICU, however, this germ was isolated in only 2 patients while they were hospitalized in the ICU. The patients had various comorbidities and long hospitalization times from admission to having their first culture positive for C. auris. All patients acquired a bacterial nosocomial infection at some point during their hospitalization and received broad-spectrum antibiotics. All isolates were resistant to Fluconazole. The hospital's infection control team reinforced containment measures and the Ministry of Health issued an epidemiolog...