OBJECTIVE To minimize the uncertainty in clinical diagnosis and improve the classification of 14 Tunisian patients belonging to 12 families and affected with congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD). METHODS Fourteen patients belonging to 12 unrelated families originating from the south of Tunisia and affected with CMD were clinically examined between 1990 and 2001 in the neurology service of Chu ...

Introduction Sexual violence is a worldwide public health concern. Nevertheless, the psychopathology of perpetrators sexual assault still nowadays poorly documented. Objectives The aim this study was to assess characteristics aggressors with mental disorders. Methods It retrospective that included series examined in forensic psychiatric assessment psychiatry C department at Hedi Chaker universi...

In Tunisia, olive mill wastewater (OMWW) locally named ‘margine’ constitutes a serious problem due to its huge amount, of about one million ton per year, and the high pollutant load resulting in excessive chemical oxygen demand (COD) values presence phytotoxic antibacterial polyphenols. The most common treatment OMWW was storage evaporation ponds which are authorized but uncontrolled. Thus, it ...

Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI) is an important tool to screen out plants, based on their tolerance or sensitivity level to different air pollutants. The present study has been conducted to evaluate APTI of four different plant species around polluted and unpolluted industrial site in Sfax, Tunisia. In order to determine the susceptibility level of the selected plant species, it has used f...

Monitoring and controlling air quality parameters form an important subject of atmospheric and environmental research today due to the health impacts caused by the different pollutants present in the urban areas. The support vector machine (SVM), as a supervised learning analysis method, is considered an effective statistical tool for the prediction and analysis of air quality. The work present...

Anaerobic biotechnology using sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) is a promising alternative for reducing long-term stockpiling of phosphogypsum (PG), an acidic (pH ~3) by-product of the phosphate fertilizer industries containing high amounts of sulfate. The main objective of this study was to evaluate, for the first time, the diversity and ability of anaerobic marine microorganisms to convert sulf...

An extremely halophilic archaeon, strain ETD6, was isolated from a marine solar saltern in Sfax, Tunisia. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence showed that the isolate was phylogenetically related to species of the genus Halorubrum among the family Halobacteriaceae, with a close relationship to Hrr. xinjiangense (99.77% of identity). However, value for DNA-DNA hybridization between strain ETD6...