Proveer al equipo de salud odontológico recomendaciones basadas en la mejor evidencia científica disponible, orientada a minimizar el riesgo de transmisión de SARS-CoV-2 durante la atención odontológica generadora de bioaerosoles ambulatoria y de urgencia a nivel primario y secundario de salud: a) U...
Plague has killed millions of people during the past 25 centuries, and the disease reappeared in several countries during the 1990s. Consequently, plague was categorized as a re-emerging disease. Human plague outbreaks continue to be reported, including an outbreak of pneumonic plague in Madagascar in 20...
El hemocultivo es un método diagnóstico para la detección de bacterias y otros microorganismos en sangre. Es una de las pruebas más eficientes para el diagnóstico de las bacteriemias.
La extracción de hemocultivos está recomendada cuando existe infección o sospecha de infección en pacientes de t...
The term nanomaterials refers to materials that have at least one dimension (height, width or length) that is smaller than 100 nanometres (10−7 metre), which is about the size of a virus particle. This particular size dimension represents a major characteristic of manufactured nanomaterials (MNMs). The...
Filoviruses (Ebola and Marburg) are highly contagious pathogens, which
cause severe and often fatal illness in humans. Health workers are at increased
risk of infection with these viruses because of their close and prolonged contact with severely ill patients with a high viral load. The risk of transmiss...
This document provides a summary of recommendations for personal protective equipment (PPE) to be used by health workers providing clinical care for patients with filovirus infection (Ebola and Marburg). The document covers the principles guiding the PPE use, recommendations, PPE technical specifications...
This document is an update to the World Health Organization (WHO) interim guidelines Infection prevention and control of epidemic- and pandemic-prone acute respiratory diseases in health care (2007). These updated guidelines incorporate the emergency guidance given in the WHO publication Infection preven...
