Dengue in hospitalized children with sickle cell disease: A retrospective cohort study in the French departments of America.

Background: To describe the characteristics of dengue in sickle cell children and try to identify risk factors of severity.

Methods: In this retrospective study, we describe the evolution according to genotype (SS or SC and controls) and severity.

Results And Conclusions: From 2005 to 2013, 106 hospitalizations for dengue fever were recorded, 35 SS genotype, 35 SC and 36 without SCD or any other chronic disease.

Reptiles in Guadeloupe (French West Indies) are a reservoir of major human Salmonella enterica serovars.

The epidemiology of human Salmonella enterica infections in Guadeloupe (French West Indies) appears to be specific, with a higher prevalence of the subspecies enterica serovars Panama and Arechavaleta (Panama and Arechavaleta) than in other regions. A study was performed in Guadeloupe to identify the reservoir of Salmonella serovars by comparing their distribution in warm- and cold-blooded animals and in humans living in Guadeloupe and mainland France. Furthermore, a case-control study was conducted in 2012-2013 to identify the main epidemiologic risk factors for S.

Chikungunya disease among infants in French West Indies during the 2014 outbreak.

Background: We aimed to describe the clinical and laboratory features of Chikungunya disease in infants aged from 1 month to 2years.

Methods: This epidemiologic study was carried out at the Pointe-à-Pitre University Hospital from May to September 2014. We collected data prospectively from infants hospitalized for Chikungunya disease.

Case report: recovery of Calliphora vicina first-instar larvae from a human traumatic wound associated with a progressive necrotizing bacterial infection.

Human myiasis caused by Calliphora vicina is rare in Europe. Here we report a case of C. vicina infection occurring in the traumatic leg wound of a healthy 21-year-old man.