Objective: to identify the main digestive manifestations related SARS-CoV-2 in Togo and determine their impact on prognosis of disease. Patients method: This was a cross-sectional study with retrospective prospective collection, descriptive analytical aims, conducted from May 1, 2020 April 30, 2021 at national center for management infectious diseases Lome. both sexes any age, tested positive b...

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is frequently reported in the context of coronavirus infection. The incidence AKI, particularly patients hospitalized intensive care units, high. aim was to study associated factors mortality acute during COVID-19 Togo. Method: This a cross-sectional analytical with retrospective data collection. It involved all at CHR-LC from March 2020 August 2021 sufferi...

In 1998, the Association Togolaise Pour le Bien Etre Familiale launched a youth centre in Lomé, Togo. To evaluate the centre, a three-year panel study was undertaken. Three years after being launched, about 10% of surveyed youth had visited the centre. Youth who lived close to the centre had contact with a peer educator and were exposed to television were more likely to have visited the youth c...

Infection with Oesophagostomum sp. is normally considered a rare zoonosis and up to this time its diagnosis has been based on the demonstration of larvae and young adults in the typical nodules formed in the intestinal wall. Only in Dapaong, in North Togo, and Bawku, North Ghana, have larger series of clinical cases been described. In the rural areas around these towns, a survey was made in whi...

Aims: The aim of the study was to investigate effectiveness four isolates native Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus (AMF) in improving pepper plant yield as well assess their potential for control nematodes.
 Study Design: experimental set up consisted a Completely Randomized Block Design with 5 treatments corresponding AMF– BEN10, GM142, 472, and WA330 – tested comparison untreated plants trea...

Hirschsprung disease in adults is a rare and frequently misdiagnosed cause of long-standing refractory constipation. Surgical procedures initially developed for pediatric patients are applied to with varying degrees success. A nineteen-year-old girl was diagnosed tertiary hospital low technology level Togo. Soave-Boley’s procedure used as definitive surgical management which resulted good outco...

BACKGROUND Several studies on the sexual risk behaviors in sub-Saharan Africa have reported that the initiation of antiretroviral therapy leads to safer sexual behaviors. There is however a persistence of risky sexual behavior which is evidenced by a high prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA). We sought to determine the factors associated wi...

In commercial poultry husbandry practice, the hatchery takes over the incubation of bird eggs in order to provide as many day-old chicks as needed at any time to farmers. The main bottleneck for poultry industry development in Togo is the lack of day-old chick supply. Indeed, there is no proficient hatchery which can cover the needs of the farmers because of lack of information about hatchery m...