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Publicación Acceso abierto Asma alérgica, niveles de IgE total y exposición a los ácaros del polvo casero en el municipio de Santiago de Tolú, Colombia.(Santa Marta, Colombia: Duazary, 2006., 2019-10-24) Rodríguez Monterroza, Salomón; Rivera Herrera, Ignacio; Castellar Martínez, Anais; Meza Navarro, Jainy; Arroyo, Libardo; Mendoza Meza, Dary Luz; Blanco Tuiran, PedroThe increasing prevalence of the asthma at world-wide level makes the investigation necessary of factors that influence their etiology and pathogenesis. In Colombia the prevalence of asthma is as high as in the industrialized countries. A study of clinical histories in the municipality of Santiago de Tolú (Colombia), showed to a high percentage of consultation by asthma and allergic rhinitis in the infantile population. With the objective to determine the frequency of asthma in the general population a descriptive study of cross-sectional was made, starting off of the information collected with a designed and proven questionnaire. A total of 316 people were asked, with representativeness of age groups and socioeconomic status. The diagnosis was confirmed by means of spirometry and measurement of the levels of total IgE in blood. As result, 8.9% of the people asked showed to clinical symptoms and positive spirometry for asthma with levels of total > IgE 100 UI/ mL, being the children between 5 and 15 years the most affected (71.5%). The survey allowed to evaluate sensitivity to environmental factors, being the house dust and smoke cigarette the most associated to the disease. The presence of mites in the accumulated dust in mattresses was confirmed, being Dermatophagoides pteronyssinusand Blomia tropicalis the most frequent species.Publicación Acceso abierto Identificación de especies de Anopheles de importancia médica en el Departamento de Sucre, Colombia.(Santa Marta, Colombia: Duazary , 2006., 2019-10-23) Pérez Rodríguez, Gladis; Pérez Quiroz, Blas; Mendoza Meza, Dary Luz; Blanco Tuiran, PedroIn Colombia, Anopheles, subgenus Nyssorhynchus have a great importance in tropical medicine since this subgenus contains most of found the vectoras species of the malaria in the country. Sucre, located to the north of Colombia, presents bioclimatics conditions that favor the development of Anopheles pertaining to the Nyssorhynchus subgenus, nevertheless the knowledge on this is little. In order to verify the presence of species of the subgenus in two subregions of Sucre (Sabana and Golfo de Morrosquillo), one inventory of Anopheles mosquitoes was made, using for its capture human bait. For the identification of the species taxonomic keys were used. A total of 221 especimenes pertaining to five species of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) was collected: A. albimanus, A. triannulatus, A.marajoara, A. Pseudopunctipennis and A. nunestovari of which two are considered like main vectors of the malaria (A. albimanus and A. nunestovari) and one like secondary vector (A. pseudopunctipennis).