[Molecular epidemiology studies on the immigrant population in Spain]. / Estudios de epidemiología molecular en población inmigrante en España.
Rev Esp Salud Publica
; 88(6): 819-28, 2014.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Molecular epidemiology is a new scientific discipline which allows to integrate information on the genetic variation of infectious pathogens with their diffusion in a population and its subgroups including, for instance, resistance mutations to antibiotics and antiretrovirals. We present the results of an analysis of scientific publications that analyze the health status of the immigrant population in Spain from a molecular epidemiology perspective.METHODS:
We reviewed original articles published in 1998-2014 with the keywords "molecular epidemiology", "molecular typing", "sequencing", "immigrant", and "Spain".RESULTS:
From a total of 267 articles identified initially, only 50 passed through the established filters. Most of them (36) analyzed infections by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (3) and HIV (3), followed at a large distance by Staphylococcus aureus and hepatitis B virus. The main goal of these works was the typing of the pathogen and to determine the frequency of resistance mutations.CONCLUSION:
Is difficult to generalize the conclusions from the analyzed articles because most of them have a purely descriptive and quite restricted scope, considering the type and size of the samples studied. Several studies are focused on the most likely origin for the strains or variants of the pathogen but others also reveal transmissions from the local to the immigrant populations.
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Colección:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Infecciones Estafilocócicas
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Staphylococcus aureus
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Tuberculosis
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Infecciones por VIH
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Virus de la Hepatitis B
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Emigrantes e Inmigrantes
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Hepatitis B
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tipo de estudio:
Screening_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
Es
Revista:
Rev Esp Salud Publica
Asunto de la revista:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Año:
2014
Tipo del documento:
Article