Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

La sífilis es una infección de transmisión sexual, potencialmente grave. La presentación clínica  es muy variada, desde manifestaciones cutáneo-mucosas hasta neurológicas. Para el diagnóstico se emplean estudios de laboratorio, treponémicos y no treponémicos, con los que se realizan diferentes algoritmos para disminuir las limitaciones de cada prueba por separado. Se discute el caso de un joven que se presenta con fiebre y lesiones en piel sugestivas de sífilis secundaria, con un test VDRL falso negativo por efecto prozona. Este fenómeno,  infrecuente, se debe a la concentración desproporcionadamente alta de anticuerpos.  Conocer las herramientas diagnósticas y trabajar en conjunto con el equipo de laboratorio,  puede facilitar el  acercamiento a la enfermedad y a un tratamiento oportuno disminuyendo así la morbimortalidad  de los pacientes.

La listeriosis es una enfermedad infecto contagiosa, transmitida por los alimentos, prevenible, y potencialmente grave. Las formas clínicas de presentación pueden ser muy variadas, desde una gastroenterocolitis hasta sepsis grave y compromiso multisistémico. Se discute el caso de una mujer joven que se presenta con manifestaciones neuropsiquiátricas y sistémicas subagudas, en contexto febril en la que a través de hemocultivos se llega al diagnóstico de Listeriosis invasiva. Se destaca el compromiso profundo parenquimatoso a forma de abscesos múltiples, como presentación menos frecuente. Se realiza tratamiento médico, antibioticoterapia prolongada, con franca mejoría clínica imagenológica. El diagnóstico de esta enfermedad requiere un alto índice de sospecha, optimizar las herramientas diagnósticas para un correcto relevo bacteriológico y así poder instaurar precozmente la antibioticoterapia.

The article will analyze, from a gender perspective, the criminal construction of the sodomy during the period of consolidation of the confessional project of the Hispanic Monarchy, during the late 16th century and early 17th century. We propose there was a relationship between the need to discipline the sodomite body and the consolidation of the confessional project in the Iberian Peninsula. The secular violence applied to the sodomite body constituted, from this perspective, one of the aspects of the establishment of confessional monarchies, since the requirement of political and religious uniformity demanded homogeneity in the sexual and gender behavior of their subjects. As a hypothesis, we suggest that as the confessional royal power was instituted, it needed to build gender structures in accordance with the political and religious project it sought to consolidate. In consequence, the sodomite body became an object of punishment. The nefarious sin, therefore, had to be eradicated, since it not only undermined the natural order, but also the gender hierarchy that sustained the power structures. Our arguments will be considered analyzing the cases of those condemned to death for sodomy who were accompanied at the royal prison of Seville by the Jesuit priest Pedro de León between 1578 and 1616.

In the present study we will analyze the systems of dependency between the wealthiest inhabitants of local communities, also called rural elites, and their laborers in Leon during the High Middle Ages. We will examine practices of dependency and their relation with the social and economic differences found in Leonese communities through the study of local by-laws (fueros) and charters from ecclesiastical archives. Then, we will question the role played by these “sub-dependency” relations within local communities and their inclusion in royal, lay or ecclesiastical lordship. This study will allow us to observe the intersection of different labour- exploitation practices, and the economic inequality within communities, contributing towards a better comprehension of the complexity of the medieval society.

Juan Bernal Díaz de Luco (1495-1556) was one of the most well known promoters of the ecclesiastical and religious reform in Spain under Charles V. This article tries to clarify a number of points of the propositions of reform elaborated by Díaz de Luco. First, the text will consider the critical situation of the Church at that time, and its relation with the need to reform. Secondly, it will specify the content of the reform, and the need to overcame the critic of the abuses of the clergy as its main topic. Thus, we will address Díaz de Luco’s perception of the difficulties of his time, as well as the extent and limitations of acting according to ancient ecclesiastical models. 

Este trabajo pretende reflexionar respecto de los motivos subyacentes a la rivalidad entre alamanes y burgundios de la que dan cuenta las fuentes latinas. Para ello, realizaremos un estudio comparativo entre ambos pueblos con el fin de problematizar la interpretación tradicional según la cual el motivo de la discordia residiría en la diversidad de sus estructuras políticas.

This article is a historiographical study of how modern historians (from the 19th to the 21st centuries) assessed the participation of free people in the servile wars from the late Roman Republic. Its aim is to reconstruct, analyze and classify the historical research about the topic. It is argued that this topic became an important historiographical problem for the modern understanding of ancient revolts during the last century, especially since the 1930s when Soviet historians proposed considering the rebel “programmes”. However, nineteenth-century authors had already pointed the participation of freemen and even, in some cases, emphasized their importance, defining their relationship with the rebel slaves as a “common cause”. Western historiography from the 20th and the 21st centuries has taken different lines of interpretation with regard to this question: from considering it as an important matter, although it does not change the servile definition of the rebellions; to judge the participation of freemen as something absolutely insignificant and, consequently, neglect it; or to rank it above the servile element and ponder them as provincial uprisings against Roman domination. To sum up, a number of criteria will be proposed to classify the historiography on this field of study.

This article will review how participation is understood today as a human right, what is its scope and vision within the systems of human rights protection, and how the “new forms of participation of society” relate to this right. With the vision changes (from representative to participatory democracy) that Latin America has undergone in recent decades, this article will focus specifically on the right to participate in public affairs in the two international human rights systems of greatest relevance to the region, namely the Inter-American Human Rights System (from the Organization of American States) and the Universal System for the Protection of Human Rights (from United Nations).

This article explores the regulatory problems presented by addressing State intervention with children who commit acts of crime, under the age of fourteen, i.e. outside the framework governed by the Adolescent Criminal Responsibility Act. They also address the problems of guilt and danger under the age of fourteen, and the justification for state intervention in children under the age of fourteen, in cases of serious events.

Domestic violence constitutes a social phenomenon as an expression of gen­der violence, with women being the main victims within the penal system. From the review of sentences of consummated femicides, which occurred between the years 2017 and 2021, we made a selection of jurisprudence that in their recitals account for the filing of previous complaints by women, due to domestic violence. Consecutively, the article retrospectively analyzes the weighting of violence in convictions of consummated femicide, incorporating qualitative textual information and statistical information that accounts for the low number of previous complaints in cases of consummated femicide, as well as the reduced number of precautionary measures that are decreed in the event of reporting cases of domestic violence.