Descripción

María es fonoaudióloga, Magíster en Envejecimiento y Calidad de Vida (INTA, Universidad de Chile) y candidata a doctora en Epidemiología en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Actualmente, realiza su postdoctorado en la Escuela de Gobierno, investigando el impacto de la resistencia antimicrobiana y el uso de antibióticos en el embarazo, así como la relación entre agentes infecciosos y cáncer en humanos.

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Investigaciones

– Maria Spencer-Sandino, F Godoy, L Huidobro, (…), C. Ferreccio. New Steatotic Liver Disease Criteria Diagnostic Performance in an Agricultural Population in Chile. Acepted in Annals of Hepatology Feb. 17, 2025. In production.

– K Allel, A Peters, L Furuya, M Spencer-Sandino, (…), JM Munita, EA Undurraga. Impact of inappropriate empirical antibiotic therapy on in-hospital mortality: a retrospective multicentre cohort study of patients with bloodstream infections in Chile, 2018-2022. BMJ Public Health. 2024 Nov 26;2(2):e001289. doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001289. PMID: 40018577; PMCID: PMC11816519.

– K Allel, A Peters, H Haghparast, M Spencer-Sandino, (…), JM Munita, EA Undurraga. Excess burden of antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections: evidence from a multicentre retrospective cohort study in Chile, 2018-2022. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2024 Nov 12;40:100943. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100943.

– Kasim Allel, A Peters, J Conejeros, JR Martínez, M Spencer-Sandino, (…), EA Undurraga, JM Munita, Antibiotic Consumption During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic and Emergence of Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Lineages Among Inpatients in a Chilean Hospital: A Time-Series Study and Phylogenomic Analysis, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 77, Issue Supplement_1, 1 July 2023, Pages S20–S28, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad151

– TS Patel, (…), Maria Spencer, (…), Fernanda C Lessa, Trends in Inpatient Antibiotic Use Among Adults Hospitalized During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 2018–2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 77, Issue Supplement_1, 1 July 2023, Pages S4–S11, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad261

– R Araos, R M Smith, AStyczynski, (…), Maria Spencer-Sandino, (…), A Jara, JM Munita, High Burden of Intestinal Colonization With Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria in Chile: An Antibiotic Resistance in Communities and Hospitals (ARCH) Study, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 77, Issue Supplement_1, 1 July 2023, Pages S75–S81, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad283

– José RW Martínez, PJ. Planet, Maria Spencer-Sandino, (…), JM. Munita, Dynamics of the MRSA Population in A Chilean Hospital: A Phylogenomic Analysis (2000-2016) Microbiology Spectrum, 2023; doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.05351-22

– MIruretagoyena, M Rodriguez, María Spencer-Sandino, (…), José M Munita, Longitudinal assessment of SARS-CoV-2 IgG seroconversion among front-line healthcare workers during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic at a tertiary-care hospital inChile, BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06208-2.

– Maria Spencer-Sandino, Roberto Riqueleme-Neira, W Shropshire, (…), J M Munita, Selective digestive decontamination with oral colistin plus gentamicin for persistent bacteraemia caused by non-carbapenemase-producing carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neutropenicpatient, JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance , 2021, https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlab079.
– Macarena Rodriguez, A Peters, I Pérez, María Spencer-Sandino, (…), JM Munita, Covid-19 in South America: clinical and epidemiological characteristics among 381 patients during the early phase of the pandemic in Santiago, Chile, BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020, DOI/URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05665-5

– Bralic, R., Peters, A., Sanchez, F., Alvares, D., Rivas, L., Spencer, M., (…), Munita, J. (2020). Colonization With Antibiotic-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria in Population-Based Hospital and Community Settings in Chile. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 41(S1), S175-S176. doi:10.1017/ice.2020.706