Human population growth, climate change and economic development are causing major environmental modifications in Western Africa, which will have important repercussions on the epidemiology of sleeping sickness. A new initiative, the Atlas of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), aims at assembling and geo-referencing all epidemiological data derived from both active screening activities and pas...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors in the general adult population of Lome. METHODS A cross-sectional household survey was conducted in Lome from October 2009 to January 2010, which focused on hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors in 2 000 subjects 18 years and older. The World Health Organisation's STEPS-wise approach on n...

Following our fieldwork in Paleogene deposits of Togo, we herein report cranial as well postcranial elements belonging to the family Dyrosauridae. This assemblage is dated Late Paleocene (Thanetian) from two quarries southern Togo. The specimens include a partial skull presenting large supratemporal fossae and massive occipital condyle; long slender isolated teeth; amphicoelous vertebrae includ...

Corchorus olitorius is commonly cultivated by household women for livelihood in Togo. No database has been found gene bank tractability This study aims to contribute a better knowledge of diversity C. from Togo, thereby developing information on this neglected crop. Twenty-seven accessions were collected the 5 ecological regions which experiments conducted. First experiment was an accession pur...

Shinsaku Togo, Xiangde Liu, Xingqi Wang, Hisatoshi Sugiura, Koichiro Kamio, Shin Kawasaki, Tetsu Kobayashi, Ronald F. Ertl, Youngsoo Ahn, Olaf Holz, Helgo Magnussen, Karin Fredriksson, C. Magnus Skold, and Stephen I. Rennard Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska; Third Department of Internal Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama; ...

The conjoined twins (CTs) are one of the most challenging conditions in pediatric surgery especially in developing countries.[1] In developed countries, antenatal diagnosis of CTs is possible at 12th week of gestation, however, in developing countries like Togo, CTs are often discovered at birth.[2] Some work on CTs has been done in Central and West Africa.[35] The problems of antenatal diagnos...

The renal complications of sickle cell anemia are well known. Gross hematuria is one of these, although it is associated more often with the sickle cell trait than with the disease. Nonetheless, in Togo, where the frequency of S gene is 16%, hematuria is rarely report in people with this gene. We describe 3 cases of gross hematuria in patients with sickle cell disease: primary hematuria associa...

The purse-web spider genus Calommata Lucas, 1837 is revised in the Afrotropical Region. Following examination of the female type material, Calommata transvaalica Hewitt, 1916 is removed from synonymy with Calommata simoni Pocock, 1903 and revalidated. The females of both species are redescribed and their males described for the first time. While Calommata simoni is very widespread across tropic...

Three Brucella abortus strains were isolated from joint hygromas from cows in northern Togo. Two deletions in the 5' side of the gene BruAb2_0168 were identified. As this gene is used for species identification, these deletions have consequences for diagnostic procedures. Multiple locus variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) analysis was therefore performed for species identification. The stra...