
TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Epidemiological characterization of bites on people, as emergency care record: province of Los Andes, Chile
JO  - Revista chilena de infectología
A1  - Villagra, Vania
A1  - Cáceres, Dante
A1  - Alvarado, Sergio
A1  - Salinas, Elizabeth
A1  - Caldera, M. Loreto
A1  - Lucero, Erick
A1  - Viviani, Paola
A1  - Torres, Marisa
SP  - 212
EP  - 220
VL  - 34
IS  - 3
N2  - BACKGROUND: Bites constitute a public health problem worldwide. <br><br>AIM: To characterize epidemiologically bites by animals happened in the province of Los Andes (2005-2007). <br><br>METHOD: Descriptive, retrospective epidemiological study. Studied variables: Bitten person (BP), accident by bite, biting animal and bite. It was not feasible to obtain more updated information by law of patient protection. <br><br>RESULTS: 2,360 BP were assisted in the emergency unit of San Juan de Dios Hospital and Rio Blanco clinic. An annual average rate of 729 BP/100,000 inhabitants and 1.99 daily average was recorded. The male gender was most affected (53.5%) and the age group from 6 to 10 years old. (Rate:.521/100,000). Most frequent topographic location was the lower limb, except in children under 5 year olds in whom predominated head and neck. The biting animal according to frequency was: the dog (67.1%) spider (7.1%) and cat (3.9%). The animal property was 35.6% known and 30.7% own. The most frequent problems were: nonspecific allergy; toxic effect by spider bites and among the infections, the disease made by cats scratch stands out. Regarding the record system, the biting animal complaint was applied to 47.6% of the BP and the 92.8% of the recorded information was incomplete. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Bites reported higher rates in the province of Los Andes than the average of the country (729 versus 188/100,000), standing out the higher magnitude in 6 to 10 year-old-children. It is noticed that the record is low and incomplete. In this province, no bite control programs or updated studies have been carried out.    Keywords: Dog Bites; Cat Bites; children.<p />  <p>Language: es</p>
LA  - es
SN  - 0716-1018
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-10182017000300002
ID  - ref1
ER  -