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Silvio Vega
Researcher at Sistema Nacional de Investigadores
Publications - 10
Citations - 3360
Silvio Vega is an academic researcher from Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tuberculosis & Population. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 9 publications receiving 1815 citations. Previous affiliations of Silvio Vega include Acharya Nagarjuna University & American Telemedicine Association.
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Discovery, research, and development of new antibiotics: the WHO priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and tuberculosis.
Evelina Tacconelli,Elena Carrara,Alessia Savoldi,Stéphan Juergen Harbarth,Marc Mendelson,Dominique L Monnet,Céline Pulcini,Gunnar Kahlmeter,Jan Kluytmans,Yehuda Carmeli,Marc Ouellette,Kevin Outterson,Jean B. Patel,Marco Cavaleri,Edward Cox,Christopher R. Houchens,M Lindsay Grayson,Paul Hansen,Nalini Singh,Ursula Theuretzbacher,Nicola Magrini,Aaron O. Aboderin,Seif Al-Abri,Nordiah Awang Jalil,Nur Benzonana,Sanjay Bhattacharya,Adrian Brink,Francesco Robert Burkert,Otto Cars,Giuseppe Cornaglia,Oliver J. Dyar,Alexander W. Friedrich,Ana Cristina Gales,Sumanth Gandra,Christian G. Giske,Debra A. Goff,Herman Goossens,Thomas Gottlieb,Manuel Guzman Blanco,Waleria Hryniewicz,Deepthi Kattula,Timothy Jinks,Souha S. Kanj,Lawrence Kerr,Marie-Paule Kieny,Yang Soo Kim,Roman S. Kozlov,Jaime Labarca,Ramanan Laxminarayan,Karin Leder,Leonard Leibovici,Gabriel Levy-Hara,Jasper Littman,Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar,Vikas Manchanda,Lorenzo Moja,Babacar Ndoye,Angelo Pan,David L. Paterson,Mical Paul,Haibo Qiu,Pilar Ramon-Pardo,Jesús Rodríguez-Baño,Maurizio Sanguinetti,Sharmila Sengupta,Mike Sharland,Massinissa Si-Mehand,Lynn L. Silver,Wonkeung Song,Martin Steinbakk,Jens Thomsen,Guy E. Thwaites,Jos W. M. van der Meer,Nguyen Van Kinh,Silvio Vega,Maria Virginia Villegas,Agnes Wechsler-Fördös,Heiman F. L. Wertheim,Evelyn Wesangula,Neil Woodford,Fidan O Yilmaz,Anna Zorzet +81 more
TL;DR: Future development strategies should focus on antibiotics that are active against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and Gram-negative bacteria, and include antibiotic-resistant bacteria responsible for community-acquired infections.
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Susceptibility rates in Latin American nations: report from a regional resistance surveillance program (2011)
Ronald N. Jones,Manuel Guzman-Blanco,Ana Cristina Gales,Belisario Gallegos,Aura Lucia Leal Castro,Marines Dalla Valle Martino,Silvio Vega,Jeannete Zurita,Mario Cepparulo,Mariana Castanheira +9 more
TL;DR: LATAM nations demonstrated variable levels of antimicrobial R especially among Enterobacteriaceae, PSA and ACB, and MRSA (48%), VRE (14%) and multidrug-R SPN were also regional therapeutic challenges.
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Update on the epidemiology of carbapenemases in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Juan-Carlos García-Betancur,Tobias Manuel Appel,German Esparza,Ana Cristina Gales,Gabriel Levy-Hara,Wanda Cornistein,Silvio Vega,Duilio Nuñez,Luis E. Cuellar,Luis Bavestrello,Paulo F Castañeda-Mendez,Juan M Villalobos-Vindas,Maria V. Villegas +12 more
TL;DR: Understanding the current epidemiology of carbapenemases in Latin America and the Caribbean is of critical importance to improve infection control policies limiting the dissemination of multi-drug-resistant pathogens and in implementing appropriate antimicrobial therapy.
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Antimicrobial stewardship programs in adult intensive care units in Latin America: Implementation, assessments, and impact on outcomes.
Rodolfo Quiros,Ana C. Bardossy,Patricia Angeleri,Jeannete Zurita,Washington R Aleman Espinoza,Marcelo Carneiro,Silvia Guerra,Julio Medina,Ximena Castañeda Luquerna,Alexander Guerra,Silvio Vega,Luis E Cuellar Ponce de Leon,Jose M. Munita,Elvio Escobar,Gina Maki,Tyler Prentiss,Marcus J. Zervos,Marcus J. Zervos +17 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the impact of stewardship programs (ASPs) in adult medical-surgical intensive care units (MS-ICUs) in Latin America.
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Phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of carbapenemase- and extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ozaenae clinical isolates within a hospital in Panama City:
Silvio Vega,Fermín Acosta,Iván Landires,Mitchelle Morán,Johanna Gonzalez,Gumercindo Pimentel-Peralta,Virginia Núñez-Samudio,Amador Goodridge +7 more
TL;DR: Klebsiella pneumoniae spp ozaenae is a versatile bacterial species able to acquire antimicrobial resistance; the species presents a higher antimacterial resistance profile compared to Klebsia pneumoniae pn...