Asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy is defined as the existence of bacteria in the urinary tract in the absence of symptoms at the time of sampling, and the diagnosis is made by urine culture. The aim of the study was to determine the uropathogens and the antimicrobial susceptibility of the most frequent uropathogen by the OYRON WELL D-ONE system, in asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnant women in Primary Health Care, in Villa Clara province, Cuba, September 2016 to April 2017. A descriptive observational research was conducted in 3 567 urine samples of pregnant women for the diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria, using the OYRON WELL D-ONE system in 12 laboratories of Primary Health Care. The following variables were studied: urine culture results, identification of uropathogens and antimicrobial susceptibility of the most frequent. A database was created in Excel 2013. A total of 1...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy is defined as the existence of bacteria in the urinary tract in the absence of symptoms at the time of sampling, and the diagnosis is made by urine culture. The aim of the study was to determine the uropathogens and the antimicrobial susceptibility of the most frequent uropathogen by the OYRON WELL D-ONE system, in asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnant women in Primary Health Care, in Villa Clara province, Cuba, September 2016 to April 2017. A descriptive observational research was conducted in 3 567 urine samples of pregnant women for the diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria, using the OYRON WELL D-ONE system in 12 laboratories of Primary Health Care. The following variables were studied: urine culture results, identification of uropathogens and antimicrobial susceptibility of the most frequent. A database was created in Excel 2013. A total of 1...

Las filariosis por Wuchereria bancrofti (Cobbold, 1877) es endémica en casi todas las regiones cálidas y húmedas del mundo. En Cuba, desde hace muchos años no se reportan casos autóctonos. Se presenta un paciente (sexo femenino), que arriba a Cuba en funciones de trabajo en el año 2016 procedente de Camerún, que comenzó con un cuadro clínico de linfoedema progresivo bilateral en extremidades inferiores.La paciente esremitida al Laboratorio Provincial de Parasitología,del Centro Provincial de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología (CPHEM) de Villa Clara, donde se realizaron varios complementarios, gotas gruesas seriadas y extracciones de sangre diurnas y nocturnas en busca de filarias. Se utilizaron técnicas de concentración y tinción con Giemsa. En las muestras de sangre periférica tomadas durante la noche, tras concentración y tinción con Giemsa, se observaron microfil...

Helminthic diseases are a major public health problem. Laboratory diagnosis is of vital importance, which must be supported by a quality assurance system. The objective of the study was to carry out an external evaluation of the laboratories that make up the health care network in order to compare the results of the external quality control in the diagnosis of helminths of the governing laboratory, the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology, with the participants in Villa Clara province, Cuba. A descriptive and transversal study was carried out, with a discretional sampling of intentional type by criteria. A total of 2,857 stool samples from 36 laboratories were processed from March 2016 to March 2019 by the Willis - Molloyʹs high-density solution method. In 98.6% of the diagnoses there was concordance of results and no concordance in 1% (29), in addition to 7 (0.2%...