[Malaria prevalence at delivery in four maternity hospitals of Kinshasa City, Democratic Republic of Congo].

In areas with stable transmission, malaria is an alarming threat both for mothers (anemia) and fetus (abortion, premature birth, a birth ponderal deficit, death in utero). Our study aims at estimating the malaria prevalence among parturients and their newborn babies in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in order to conduct the national programme of control. Between September and November 2004, 196 pregnant women aged of 14 to 45 years old (average: 25.

[Chemoresistance of Plasmodium falciparum in Kinshasha. In vivo tests and chloroquine absorption].

With the test in vivo and the bleeding dosage of chloroquine, authors report the rate of resistance of chloroquine to Plasmodium falciparum. 2.3% of Plasmodium falciparum in Kinshasa are resistant to chloroquine.

Parasitological observations of chronic diarrhoea in suspected AIDS adult patients in Kinshasa (Zaire).

The parasitological profile of chronic diarrhoea in 46 Zairian adults suspected of Aids demonstrated that the frequency of protozoa was five times higher than that of helminths; 86% of the protozoa were sporozoa: Isospora belli was the most frequent (19%), followed by Cryptosporidium isolated for the first time in Zaire (8%) and Blastocystis hominis (2%). 37 of the 46 patients were immunodeficient.