1 Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK, 2 Geophysis and Meteorology, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 3 Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques Laboratory, Sorbonne Universités (UPMC, Université Paris IV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-IRD-MNHN, Paris, France, 4 Insti...

The kelch 13 (K13) propeller gene is associated with artemisinin resistance. In a previous work, there were no mutations found in 138 Plasmodium falciparum isolates collected in 2012 and 2013 from patients residing in Dakar, Senegal (M. Torrentino-Madamet et al., Malar J 13:472, 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-472). However, the N554H, Q613H, and V637I mutations were identified in ...

INTRODUCTION Despite prevention efforts, malaria remains a public health problem. METHODOLOGY This was a prospective study conducted between October and December 2010 that aimed to describe the therapeutic route of adults presenting with severe malaria prior to being admitted to Fann Teaching Hospital in Dakar, Senegal. RESULTS A total of 90 patients were included. The majority of them had ...

From 2000 to 2001, nine strains of Salmonella enterica belonging to the new serotype Keurmassar have been isolated from human and poultry samples at the Senegalese National Salmonella and Shigella Reference Laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, in Dakar. All strains carried virulence factors including Salmonella Pathogenicity Islands (SPI)-1, -2, -3 and -5 encoded genes. Strains did not harbour ...

African Neurology has come of age. On the 29–31 August 2015 a landmark meeting was held in Dakar, Senegal. Delegates from 33 African countries representing their national neurologic societies and associations gathered to decide on the future of Neurology in Africa. Themeeting was held under the aegis of theWorld Federation of Neurology (WFN) Africa Initiative Task and Advisory Force for Africa ...

Strain FF6(T) was isolated from the cervical abscess of a 4-year-old Senegalese boy, in Dakar, Senegal. MALDI-TOF MS did not provide any identification. This strain exhibited a 95.17% 16S rRNA sequence identity with Necropsobacter rosorum. Using a polyphasic study including phenotypic and genomic analyses, strain FF6(T) was an aero-anaerobic Gram-negative cocobacillus, oxidase positive, and exh...

We studied thrombocytopenia during acute Plasmodium falciparum malaria in 64 traveller children from Paris (France), 85 children from Dakar (Senegal) with an intermittent exposure (69 with severe attack or cerebral malaria), and 81 children from Libreville (Gabon) with a perennial exposure (43 with severe attack or cerebral malaria). Initial thrombocytopenia was present in 43-58% of children wi...

A yellow fever outbreak was detected in Angola late in December 2015 and was confirmed by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa and Institut Pasteur of Dakar, Senegal in 20 January 2016. Subsequently, a rapid increase in the number of cases was observed. From 5 December 2015 to 22 September 2016, 4,143 suspected cases were registered, among them 884 laboratory confirm...

Objective: The objective of this work was to draw up an inventory the entomofauna associated with cultivation sweet corn (Zea mays L. ssp saccharata) in Niayes Senegal. Methodology and Results: A monitoring sampling carried out between June August 2017 at experimental station Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA) Sangalkam (Dakar), insects collected were identified by laboratory...

In the nematology laboratory in Dakar, plant parasitic nematodes, extracted from infested roors in a Seinhorst's mistifier (1950), were collected in plastic boxes in 1/4 liter of tap water. Once, in 1983, sorne boxes contained smaller numbers of nematodes than anticipated and they also contained copepods swimming in the water. Therefore, these copepods were suspected of ingesting nematodes. The...