Year 2012 summary
During 2012 SESC has managed a total of 151 queries. Of these 12 were telematic queries and the remaining 139 applications corresponded to queries including samples for laboratory analysis.
Since the migration to the Word Press platform in April 2012, SESC Case Archive has had 7476 visits with a total of 19,880 page views. It has since quadrupled the number of visits.
Below is a brief summary of the data on this year's queries:
Evolution of the arrival of queries at SESC in its 5 years of operation.
Species distribution of queries arrived at SESC. The cattle sector, once again, is the one that provides more samples, especially for diagnostic confirmation of zoonoses such as bovine tuberculosis and cysticercosis. The pig sector has the highest number of purely telematic queries. Most poultry samples were sent to confirm Marek's disease diagnostic.
Organ distribution of the queries received.
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DIAGNOSES |
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Initial suspect in query |
Nº of queries |
% supect confirmation |
ALTERNATIVE DIAGNOSES |
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Cysticercosis |
31 |
67,7% (n=21) |
Eosinophilyc myositis (2)
Neoplasia (2) Others (6) |
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Tuberculosis |
29 |
39% (n=11) |
Neoplasia (5)
Pyogranulomatous lesions (bacteria) (5) Fungal Lesions (1) Others (7) |
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Hydatidosis |
8 |
37,5% (n=3) |
Congenital cysts (3)
Others (2) |
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C. tenuicollis |
9 |
44,4% (n=4) |
Non parasitic cysts (3)
Others (2) |
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C. cellulosae |
4 |
0% (n=0) |
Valvular cysts (3)
Others (1) |
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Marek’s disease |
4 |
100% (n=4) |
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Orf |
4 |
75% (n=3) |
Dermatophytosis (ringworm) (n=1) |
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Others |
(n=57) |
COMMENTS |
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Neoplasia |
8 |
Linphoma (5)
Osteochondroma Teratoma Others (1) |
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Lesion in skin and adnexa |
16 |
Eosinophilyc dermatitis (2)
Besnoitiasis (2) PDNS (3) Pityriasis rosea Dermatophytosis Unconclusive (7) |
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Others |
33 |
Spleen torsion (2)
Septicemia (embolic -methastasic lesions) (3) Eosinophilyc myositis (2) Hematomas (2) Melanosis (2) Malformations (2) Mineralisation of the aorta.. Interstitial nefritis Pielonefritis Necrotizing enterirtis. Arthritis. Others (15) |
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