Laboratory Coordinator
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
Unit of Health, Sexuality and Human Development, and Laboratory of Sexual Health
Av. Honorio Delgado 430, Lima 31
San Martin de Porres
Peru
segundo.leon@upch.pe
Biographical Sketch:
Expertise in HIV and STI diagnostics, Prevention and Control; major studies focused in epidemiology, diagnostic tests and molecular testing development and implementation.
1. Edgar Gonzales-Escalante, Raúl Sevilla-Andrade, Segundo León-Sandoval. CTX-M-TYPE EXTENDED-SPECTRUM β-lactamase IN Shigella flexneri ISOLATES FROM PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH ACUTE DIARRHEA (In Press)
2. Deiss RG, Leon SL, Konda KA, Brown B, Segura ER, Galea JT, Caceres CF, Klausner JD. Characterizing the syphilis epidemic among men who have sex with men in Lima, Peru to identify new treatment and control strategies. BMC Infect Dis. 2013 Sep 10;13(1):426
3. Gonzales-Escalante E, Vicente-Taboada W, Champi-Merino R, Soto-Pastrana J,Flores-Paredes W, Lovera-García M, Chuquiray-Valverde N, Bejarano-Cristobal C, Puray-Chávez M, León-Sandoval S. [Metalo-ß-lactamases in clinical isolates of pseudomonas aeruginosa in Lima, Peru]. Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica. 2013 Jun;30(2):241-5.
4. Karina Flores and Segundo R. Leon. Diagnostic Accuracy Among 4 Point-of-Care Tests for the Screening of HIV Infection. Lab Medicine 2013 44:172-175
5. Deiss RG, Clark JL, Konda KA, Leon SR, Klausner JD, Caceres CF, Coates TJ. Problem drinking is associated with increased prevalence of sexual risk behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Lima, Peru. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2013 Sep 1;132(1-2):134-9
6. Maguiña JL, Konda KA, Leon SR, Lescano AG, Clark JL, Hall ER, Klausner JD, Coates TJ, Caceres CF; The NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial Group. Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption Prior to Sex, Unprotected Sex and Prevalence of STI/HIV Among Socially Marginalized Men in Three Coastal Cities of Peru. AIDS Behav. 2012 Sep 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 23054035
7. Silva-Santisteban A, Raymond HF, Salazar X, Villayzan J, Leon S, McFarland W, Caceres CF. Understanding the HIV/AIDS epidemic in transgender women of Lima, Peru: results from a sero-epidemiologic study using respondent driven sampling. AIDS Behav. 2012 May;16(4):872-81.