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Screening of inmates transferred to Spain reveals a Peruvian prison as a reservoir of persistent Mycobacterium tuberculosis MDR strains and mixed infections

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Abascal E., Herranz M., Acosta F., Agapito J., Cabibbe A.M., Monteserin J., Ruiz Serrano M.J., Gijón P., Fernández-González F., Lozano N., Chiner-Oms Á., Cáceres T., Pintado P.G., Acín E., Valencia E., Muñoz P., Comas I., Cirillo D.M., Ritacco V., Gotuzzo E., García de Viedma D.

Publicado 2020

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It is relevant to evaluate MDR-tuberculosis in prisons and its impact on the global epidemiology of this disease. However, systematic molecular epidemiology programs in prisons are lacking. A health-screening program performed on arrival for inmates transferred from Peruvian prisons to Spain led to the diagnosis of five MDR-TB cases from one of the biggest prisons in Latin America. They grouped into two MIRU-VNTR–clusters (Callao-1 and Callao-2), suggesting a reservoir of two prevalent MDR strains. A high-rate of overexposure was deduced because one of the five cases was coinfected by a pansusceptible strain. Callao-1 strain was also identified in 2018 in a community case in Spain who had been in the same Peruvian prison in 2002–5. A strain-specific-PCR tailored from WGS data was implemented in Peru, allowing the confirmation that these strains were currently responsible for the majo...

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International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) Global Mapping Programme: Latin American Society of Pediatric Oncology (SLAOP) country-level report

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Cappellano, A, Gorostegui, M, Gonzalez-Ramella, O, Filho, NPC, Valencia, D, Chantada, L, Sampor, C, Serrano, MJ, Macedo, C, Ramirez, O, Sardinas, S, Lezcano, E, Calderón, P, Gamboa, Y, Fu, L, Gómez, W, Schelotto, M, Ugaz, C, Lobos, P, Aguiar, SDS, Moreno, K, Palma, J, Sánchez, G, Moschella, F, Gassant, PYH, Velasquez, T, Quintero, K, Moreno, F, Villarroel, M, Fuentes, Alabi, S, Vasquez, L, Challinor, J, Chantada, GL

Publicado 2024

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Background: Latin American countries are improving childhood cancer care, showing strong commitment to implement the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer, but there are scant publications of the situation at a continental level. Methods: As part of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology Global Mapping project, delegates of each country participating in the Latin American Society of Pediatric Oncology (SLAOP) and chairs of national pediatric oncology societies and cooperative groups were invited to provide information regarding availability of national pediatric cancer control programs (NPCCP), pediatric oncology laws, pediatric oncology tumor registries, and training programs and support to diagnosis and treatment. Results: Nineteen of the 20 countries participating in SLAOP responded. National delegates reported nine countries with NPCCP and four of them were launched in the...