BACKGROUND Urban areas in West Africa are not immune to undernutrition with recent urbanization and high food prices being important factors. School children often have a poor nutritional status, potentially affecting their health and schooling performance. Yet, generally school children do not benefit from nutrition programs. The objective of the study was to assess the anthropometric and micr...

1 Alliance for International Medical Action, Dakar, Senegal, 2 Center for Applied Molecular Technologies, Louvain Catholic University, Brussels, Belgium, 3 Inserm, Centre 1219, Bordeaux, France, 4 Department of Tropical Medicine and Clinical International Health, Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University Hospital of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, 5 Department of Critical Care, Divis...

We report the detection and molecular characterization of extended spectrum β-lactamases in a series of 112 clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae from the Hôpital Principal de Dakar, Senegal, including five CTX-M-15-producing Morganella morganii isolates, which are reported for the first time in this country.

1 Department of Laboratories and Blood Safety, Ministry of Public Health, and University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon, 2 Laboratoire de Virologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, and Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes, Université Paris Descartes (Paris V), Paris, France, 3 UNAIDS, Dakar, Senegal, 4 Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia,...

Oleg Mediannikov, Jean-François Trape, Georges Diatta, Philippe Parola, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, and Didier Raoult Author affi liations: Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, Marseille, France (O. Mediannikov, P. Parola, P.-E. Fournier, D. Raoult); and Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, Dakar, Senegal (O. Mediannikov, ...

Service de Pédiatrie, UFR des Sciences de la Santé, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Sénégal, Service de Pédiatrie, UFR des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Thiés, Sénégal, Service de Pédiatrie, Faculté de Médecine, de Pharmacie et d’Odonto-stomatologie, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (Sénégal), Service de Pédiatrie, UFR des Sciences de la Santé, Université Assane Seck de Zigui...

Cholera is an acute diarrheal illness caused by Vibrio cholerae and occurs as widespread epidemics in Africa. In 2005, there were 31,719 cholera cases, with 458 deaths in the Republic of Senegal. We retrospectively investigated the climate origin of the devastating floods in mid-August 2005, in the Dakar Region of Senegal and the subsequent outbreak of cholera along with the pattern of cholera ...