[Cholera in Senegal from 2004 to 2006: lessons learned from successive outbreaks].
- Manga NmC. T. Ndour P. Sow
- 1 December 2008
Medicine, Environmental Science
This cholera epidemic was more widespread and longer than the previous outbreaks in Senegal and was associated with a trend to endemicity in urban areas.
[Adult purulent meningitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in Dakar, Senegal].
The high mortality of pneumococcal meningitis in adult patients in Dakar shows the need to improve intensive care facilities and the growing incidence of PNSP underlines the requirement for better control of antibiotic prescription.
[Epidemiological, clinical, etiological features of neuromeningeal diseases at the Fann Hospital Infectious Diseases Clinic, Dakar (Senegal)].
- M. SoumaréM. Seydi B. Diop
- 2005
Medicine
The results show the need to improve the technical capacities in diagnostic laboratories, the prevention of opportunistic infections in the course of HIV/AIDS infection, and the involvement of various specialists in the management of cerebromeningeal diseases.
Absence of association between polymorphisms in the pfcoronin and pfk13 genes and the presence of Plasmodium falciparum parasites after treatment with artemisinin derivatives in Senegal.
- Océane DelandreS. M. Daffé B. Pradines
- 9 October 2020
Medicine, Biology
The present data suggest that polymorphisms on pfk13 and pfcoronin are not the best predictive markers for artemisinin resistance in Senegal.
Class 2 integron-associated antibiotic resistance in Shigella sonnei isolates in Dakar, Senegal.
- A. Gassama-SowM. H. Diallo A. Aïdara-Kane
- 1 March 2006
Medicine
To the authors' knowledge, this is the first description of class 2 integrons in S. sonnei isolated in sub-Saharan Africa and probably play a role in the spread of multiresistance.
[Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in the Dakar Fann University Hospital].
It is essential to reinforce preventive measures in hospitals and to provide them with effective drugs against MRSA, such as vancomycin, according to such a high rate of MRSA bacteremia, in particular among nosocomial b acteremia.
Clinical efficacy of a new, enhanced-potency, inactivated poliovirus vaccine.
- S. RobertsonJ. Drucker Foude Diouf
- 23 April 1988
Medicine
The 1986-87 outbreak of paralytic poliomyelitis in Senegal provided an opportunity to evaluate the efficacy of an enhanced-potency inactivated poliovirus vaccine (N-IPV) in the Kolda region, where this vaccine has been used since 1980.
[Micromethod for identification of enterobacteria].
- A. Gassama†C. Boye S. Mboup
- 1999
Biology, Medicine
102 strains of Enterobacteriaceae were identified by MicroCSB--89.3% were correctly identified and 0.9% were identified with other tests 9.8% were incorrectly identified.
[Cholera epidemic of 2004 in Dakar, Senegal: epidemiologic, clinical and therapeutic aspects].
During the cholera epidemic that occurred in Dakar, Senegal in 2004, a total of 593 confirmed or suspected cases were treated, and epidemiologic, clinical, bacteriologic and therapeutic aspects of these cases were described.
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