INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of West Nile Virus infection in the southern provinces of Morocco. METHODOLOGY A total of 250 sera, collected during 2012 in the province of Dakhla, were analyzed by microneutralisation assay. RESULTS WNV-neutralizing antibodies were detected in 13 samples (5.2%). The participants with WNV-specific antibodies were sign...

This study aims to investigate the content of lead in most frequently used brands of cosmetics products in Morocco.100 samples of kohl (kohl powder, galena, eye pencils and paste) were selected taken from large cosmetic stores in Morocco. And lead of them is analyzed using a Fast Sequential Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (SAAFS 240).The results showed that the concentrations of lead in kohl sam...

The present study aims to determine the main characteristics of ophidian envenomation in the Souss-Massa-Drâa region in Morocco. It consisted of a descriptive retrospective analysis of all snakebite cases recorded by the Moroccan Poison Control and Pharmacovigilance Center, from 1980 to 2008. According to reported data, this region is the most affected in Morocco with 479 cases, that is 27.6% (...

West Nile virus-associated disease is one of the most widespread vector-borne diseases in the world. In Morocco, the first cases were reported in horses in 1996 and the disease re-emerged in 2003 and in 2010. The objective of this work was to study the epidemiological situation of WNV-associated infection in Morocco, by quantifying the seroprevalence of anti-WNV IgM and IgG antibodies in horses...

BACKGROUND Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer morbidity and mortality. Its management has a significant economic impact on society. Despite a high incidence of cancer, so far, there is no national register for this disease in Morocco. The main goal of this report was to estimate the medical costs of lung cancer in our country. METHODS We first estimated the number of annual new cases ...

BACKGROUND In less than a decade, Morocco reportedly saw cannabis cultivation decrease by 65%, and hashish production is widely believed to have followed the same trend. Yet large anomalies exist between the alleged fall of hashish production in Morocco and international seizure data. While no explanation for such a discrepancy existed, the main hypothesis was that cannabis cultivation and hash...

We read with great interest the paper by Cheikh Rouhou et al., which was recently published online in TheScientificWorldJOURNAL[1]. In this article, the authors report a new case of pulmonary and vertebral blastomycosis from Tunisia. They found that the probable reservoir of Blastomyces dermatitidis is the soil. Blastomycosis is considered a rare and sporadic disease in Africa, unlike in some e...

H e a l t h C o n d i t i o n : In 1992, a national survey found that just over 5 percent of Morocco’s population had the blinding disease trachoma. Nearly all the cases were concentrated in five poor, rural provinces in the southeast of the country where 25,000 people showed a serious decline in vision due to trachoma, 625,000 needed treatment for inflammatory trachoma, and 40,000 urgently nee...

Here, we describe the annotated genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis MTB13_M. The organism was isolated from a sputum sample in Morocco.

OBJECTIVES Building on a wealth of new empirical data, the objective of this study was to estimate the distribution of new HIV infections in Morocco by mode of exposure using the modes of transmission (MoT) mathematical model. METHODS The MoT model was implemented within a collaboration with the Morocco Ministry of Health and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. The model was param...