Catia Cillóniz
Doctoral Researcher
catiacilloniz(ELIMINAR)@yahoo.com
Degree in Biology from the San Luis Gonzaga National University, Ica, Peru. The subject of her doctoral thesis is the study of etiologic agents involved in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and their relationship with population factors. For example, determining the direct or indirect relationship of the different microorganisms with the severity and course of the infection, or describing the course of the different etiologic agents and the type of presentation observed in hospitals.
She takes part in the line of research on CAP, following up cases that are reported and recording the associated comorbidity, clinical presentation, identification of the etiologic agent and outcome factors.
She also takes part in the new line of health care associated pneumonia (HCAP), defined as those pneumonias in patients who are residents in nursing homes and patients in the community with specific risk criteria for nosocomial infection. For HCAP patients, different from patients who acquire CAP in hospital, she records and monitors the epidemiology, clinical presentation, etiology and outcome factors. Determining the etiology of CAP, its clinical presentation, severity, resistances and course will contribute to optimizing diagnostic tests to identify the etiologic agents with greater accuracy.
It will contribute to optimizing diagnostic tests to identify the etiologic agents with greater accuracy