The Zika virus was first isolated in a Rhesus monkey in the Zika forest in Uganda in 1947, during a study on the transmission of jungle yellow fever. In 2007, there was the first major outbreak of infection in the island of Yap in Micronesia; and by the end of 2013; an outbreak began in French Polynesia. In May 2015, native circulation in continental America (Brazil) was registered. To date, 47 countries / territories in the Americas have confirmed native cases of infection, in six departments in Peru. At the beginning of 2016, seven countries or territories reported an increase in the incidence of microcephaly after an outbreak of infection by the Zika virus. Worldwide, 23 countries or territories have reported cases of microcephaly and other malformations of the central nervous system possibly associated with Zika virus infection; and in the Andean Region, only Colombia has presented c...

Las infecciones intrahospitalarias (IIH) son una de las mayores complicaciones de la atención de salud a nivel mundial que se asocian a un incremento de la mortalidad, la morbilidad y de los costos sociales y económicos. El presente estudio permitió conocer el comportamiento y magnitud de las IIH asociadas a dispositivos invasivos y procedimientos en el Centro Médico Naval “CMST”; proporcionando información para la toma de decisiones en la de prevención y control de las infecciones nosocomiales. Determina la tendencia de la incidencia de las IIH asociadas a factores de riesgo vigilados en un establecimiento de salud de categoría III-1 en el periodo 2007 – 2013 y compararlas con las tasas referenciales nacionales. Realiza un estudio descriptivo longitudinal retrospectivo. Encuentra que la incidencia de las IIH asociadas a dispositivos invasivos y las endometritis asociadas a ...

First published in 1918, Anales de la Facultad de Medicina is the official journal of San Fernando Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Following some years of absence, Anales was again published in 1995, under the direction of Dean José Piscoya Arbañil. Most of the Editorial Staff was later included in the new Editorial Committee in 2000 under the direction of José Pacheco Romero. Permanence, punctuality, visibility and impact distinguished the 15 years of administration of the journal despite editorial and financing limitations. Anales has received support from all the Faculty of Medicine Deans and the University Research Vice-Rector. It has obtained important indizations, and has digitized all journal articles and their respective doi since 1918, allowing more visits, article discharges and citations.