[Anthrax: an unusual escharotic lesion].

Background: Anthrax is basically an animal disease rarely found in humans. We report a case occurring in a young boy who had minimal signs and a suggestive skin lesion.

Case Report: A 16-year-old boy living in the steppe pastures in western Algeria was hospitalized for unexplained long-duration fever.

[Dermatophytic disease: exuberant hyperkeratosis with cutaneous horns].

Background: Dermatophytic disease is a chronic dermatophytosis involving the skin and viscera and caused by benign dermatophytes which cross the skin barrier. We present a case presenting previously unreported giant cutaneous horns.

Case Report: A male Algerian patient aged 29 years consulted for chronic skin disease which had progressed for 2 years.

[Chancroid in Algeria: the status of this sexually transmitted disease in 1995].

Absent for several decades, the chancroid reappeared in Algeria in 1988. In the unique department of Dermatology and Venereology of the University Hospital of the country of Tlemcen (more than 700,000 inhabitants), we wanted to know the state of this STD seven years after the report of the first cases. The file of the consulting patients were examined.

[Hepato-erythropoietic porphyria].

Introduction: Hepatoerythropoietic porphyria is a rare congenital form of porphyria with a biochemical pattern of porphyria cutanea tarda. The disease is caused by defect in uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase.

Case Report: A 3-year-old girl was born to healthy consanguineous parents.