Tinea capitis in school children from Mauritania: A comparative study between urban and rural areas.

Introduction: In Mauritania, only an investigation carried out 26 years ago allows to report epidemiological findings about tinea capitis in Nouakchott. The objective of this study was to reactualize the tinea capitis epidemiological, clinical and mycological profile in school children and to compare this profile in urban and rural area.

Patients And Methods: All subscribed students in targeted schools and present during the investigation were examined clinically before samples collection.

[Hepatitis B virus infection in the school milieu of Kiffa and Selibaby, Mauritania].

Our survey was concerned with searching for different markers of Hepatitis B virus infection in 267 primary and secondary school children in two Mauritanian sites in the south and south-east of the country. The results showed that for the surveyed subjects, 16.8% were carriers of HBs antigen, 21% of anti-HBs antibodies, 50.