Etiological Diagnosis and Correlation of Chromoblastomycosis with Climatic Variables of Weather Stations in Villa Clara, Cuba

Authors

  • Dianiley García Gómez "Mariana Grajales" University Provincial Gynecological and Obstetric Hospital, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Ricardo Osés Rodríguez Provincial Meteorological Center of Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Daniel Artiles Martínez University Clinical Surgical Provincial Hospital “Arnaldo Milián Castro”. Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • María Teresa Illnait Zaragozí Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK). La Habana, Cuba
  • David del Valle Laveaga Parasitology Department. Regional High Specialty Hospital (HARE), Dr. Juan Graham Casasús, México
  • Hans García Garcés Beijin Genomics Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Rigoberto Fimia Duarte Hygiene and Epidemiology Department, Faculty of Health Technology and Nursing (FHTN), University of Medical Sciences of Villa Clara (UMS-VC), Cuba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31033/abjar.2.4.7

Keywords:

chromoblastomycosis, fonsecaea pedrosoi, climatic variables, villa clara

Abstract

In Villa Clara province, Cuba, microorganisms and climatic conditions coexist for the development of the infectious entity chromoblastomycosis. Besides, there is a high percentage of agricultural and handicraft workers exposed to acquiring this infection. The objective of the research consisted in describing the etiological diagnosis and correlating chromoblastomycosis with average climatic variables of the meteorological stations located in Villa Clara. Between 2018-2022, a descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in a population of 25 patients diagnosed with chromoblastomycosis by anatomopathological and microbiological studies. Absolute frequencies were used as a summary measure, and for correlation with climatic data from the five meteorological stations, inferential statistics. Of the total number of patients, 92% were diagnosed by anatomopathological studies and only 2/8% had mycological studies, in which the species Fonsecaea pedrosoi was isolated. There was a significant correlation between mean temperature (p=0.045) and mean predicted wind (p=0.028) and the number of cases. This was not the case with relative air humidity (p>0.05). It is concluded that in Villa Clara province, only the etiological agent F. pedrosoi was the cause of the disease during the period studied, with a significant relationship between the disease and the average climatic variables mean temperature and mean predicted wind.

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2023-07-31

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Dianiley García Gómez, Ricardo Osés Rodríguez, Daniel Artiles Martínez, María Teresa Illnait Zaragozí, David del Valle Laveaga, Hans García Garcés, & Rigoberto Fimia Duarte. (2023). Etiological Diagnosis and Correlation of Chromoblastomycosis with Climatic Variables of Weather Stations in Villa Clara, Cuba. Applied Science and Biotechnology Journal for Advanced Research, 2(4), 34–38. https://doi.org/10.31033/abjar.2.4.7

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