[Landscape components favouring the occurrence of anthrax in the Flooding Pampa grasslands (Buenos Aires province, Argentina)]. / Componentes del paisaje que favorecen la aparición de carbunco en la Pampa Deprimida (provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina).

The authors studied the landscape components that favour the occurrence of anthrax in the Flooding Pampa grasslands (Buenos Aires province, Argentina). They made spatial locations of anthrax outbreaks diagnosed by registered veterinary laboratories in the study area's zone of influence. As variables for study, they differentiated areas that are flooded for 20% of the time or more from primary and secondary runoff channels. They also identified areas with low-productivity pasture. Logistic regression analysis of farm populations revealed that landscape components favouring the occurrence of anthrax outbreaks are shared runoff channels (odds ratio (OR) = 2.3; confidence interval (CI) = 1.2; 4.7) and > or = 40% low-productivity pasture (OR = 5.4; CI = 3.5; 8.3). Contrary to initial assumptions, susceptibility to flooding was not a significant variable (OR = 1.1; CI = 0.5; 2.1). The authors concluded that the first step in decision-making and ensuring more efficient implementation of future anthrax control and eradication plans was to identify risk variables.

[Regulatory requirements; What steps must be taken before starting a biomedical research study?] / Requerimientos normativos: ¿Qué pasos tengo que seguir antes de iniciar un estudio de investigación biomédica?

Studies of research with human beings, their biological specimens, or their personal data in the field of biomedicine have been subject to regulation since the middle of the last century. Initially a regulation based on recommendations such as the Nuremberg Code, the Belmont Report or the first versions of the Declaration of Helsinki. All of them documents in which the principles (autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice) were conceptualized, and that all researchers had to follow in the development of their research. This first phase is known as a period of self-regulation, because it is considered that the researchers themselves could, by following these recommendations, carry out their investigations without further control. Subsequently, it went through a clearly regulatory period in which the premises of these recommendations were progressively incorporated into the legal system of the different countries, and with this, arose the external control of the investigation by the administrations and other bodies, such as the Research Ethics Committees. The purpose of this article is to serve as a guide to professionals whose main activity is care in the field of Primary Care and who, in turn, are interested in initiating research studies to respond to uncertainties in the context of their daily activity that may arise.

[Profile of the Family Doctor who gains access to positions with teaching tutorship of Family and Community Medicine by means of relocation examination in Galicia]. / Perfil del médico de familia que accede a plazas con tutoría docente de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria mediante concurso de traslados en Galicia.

OBJECTIVE: To analyse the profile of Family Doctors who gain access to positions, both to the general quota, as well those reserved for teaching tutors of Family and Community Medicine, by means of a relocation competition. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A descriptive observational study was conducted in which 2 comparison groups were established: A Non-Teaching group that did not include Family Doctors who did not request or gain access to tutor positions, and a Teaching group with those that gained access to positions reserved for tutors. The information was obtained from the marks of the relocation competition carried out in Galicia in 2018. A total of 426 General Practitioners that entered the examination were included, of which 301 were female (70.7%) and 125 (29.3%) males. The variables were the obtaining of a position reserved for tutor, gender, and the merits considered in the competition: professional experience, training, scientific publications, and Galician language. The non-parametric statistics tests of Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis were used, after checking for non-normal distribution. RESULTS: Statistically significant differences were found in the distribution by gender in favour of males in the Teaching group compared to the Non-Teaching group (P<.01). The Teaching group obtained better results in training and publications. The females obtained statistically significant results in their favour in the training variable, and the males in experience. CONCLUSIONS: For the choice of teaching places in relocation interviews and examinations, publications and training had an important weighting; but, taking the gender perspective into account, a lower percentage of women had gained access to teaching positions due to having lower score in the experience category.

Computed tomography of nephrogenic adenoma of the urinary bladder.

Nephrogenic adenoma of the urinary bladder is a rare benign tumor. It is generally accepted that the tumor represents metaplasia of the urothelium in response to chronic inflammation or injury. Its CT appearance can be similar to that of carcinoma of the bladder.

Computed tomography of acute renal abscess due to Salmonella chester.

A case of renal abscess caused by an unusual Salmonella serotype is presented in which the clinical presentation was suggestive of renal neoplasia. The CT findings of renal abscesses and neoplasm are discussed as well as a brief discussion on the epidemiology of Salmonella infections.