Identificación de portadores asintomáticos de Salmonella spp. en muestras de heces fecales en estudiantes de la Carrera de Laboratorio Clínico de la Universidad Técnica de Ambato

Abstract

Salmonella spp. is a gram-negative bacterium causative agent of gastrointestinal diseases, it is considered as a pathogen of high control due to its considerable mortality and morbidity rate in infants, children, older adults and immunosuppressed people. This bacterium can be found asymptomatically in the digestive tract of some people being this a danger to public health, as they become reservoirs and potential vectors of transmission that help the spread of this pathogen in communities; in the case of health personnel there is a greater risk of contracting and spreading this bacterium nosocomially within hospital environments. The purpose of this research is to identify the presence of asymptomatic carriers of Salmonella spp. in fecal samples in students of the Clinical Laboratory of the Technical University of Ambato. This was a transversal descriptive observational study carried out on all students of the Clinical Laboratory Career of the Technical University of Ambato, where students without gastrointestinal symptomatology were identified, to later carry out a microbiological analysis from feces according to standardized manual methods and verification of results in the VITEK 2 COMPACT equipment. The data obtained were evaluated and analyzed with the statistical package IMB SPSS Statistics 29, determining that there are no asymptomatic carriers of Salmonella spp in the Clinical Laboratory Career.