[Endemic goiter in the La Kara region (Togo). Analysis of etiologic factors].

Among 6,035 people living in 3 villages from the area of La Kara (Togo), 984 randomized subjects were investigated to evaluate goiter prevalence and related etiologic factors. Creatinine and thiocyanates (SCN-) were measured in urine, thyroid hormones and TSH in plasma. Iodine was evaluated in urine, water, salt, soil, millet and sorgho.

[Bacterial and fungal digestive flora of herring gulls (Larus argentatus) in the Camargue].

The bacterial and fungal digestive flora of herring gulls (Larus argentatus michahellis) has been studied in Camargue, France. Of 107 cloacal swab samples, one was found to contain Salmonellae. The incidence of Escherichia coli and faecal Streptococcus was sufficiently high to suggest that greater attention should be paid to the environmental impact of this gull species.

[Urbanization and health. XII. Prevalence of bacterial and viral entero-infections in 2 Serer populations].

In two sample groups, natives of the same village, the first one having migrated in Dakar, the other one staying in rural environment, had been rated enterobacteries, enterovirus and intestinal parasites contamination. The rural population had been more infected than the migrants by Salmonella, Giardia intestinalis and sheltered against ascaridiose and trichocephalose. Bacterial and viral contamination, seemed to be more frequency and precocity in town environment, per contra prevalence of evocatives expression of tuberculosis was really increased in rural environment.

[Simultaneous study of salmonella's infection in the population of eleven villages in Senegal and among lizards (species Agama) (author's transl)].

Salmonella were isolated in 3.7% villagers and 37% Agama lizard in Senegalian rural area. The distribution of the thirty serotypes which were settled in the two human and animal populations is in favour of the role of Agama in preservation of a high endemic disease level.

[Mycobacteria in the digestive tract of pink Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber roseus, Pallas)].

Cloacal swabs were taken from 37 young wild Greater Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber roseus, Pallas) in Camargue (South of France). Neither pathogenic strain, nor environmental one were found. The absence of the latter could be attributed to the high NaCl levels of the ecosystems.

[Sero-epidemiology of hepatitis A. Results obtained in Senegal (Fleuve and Casamance regions) (author's transl)].

The sero-epidemiological study carried out in Senegal consisting of 10 main points taken from two very different geographical areas--Senegal river and Lower Casamance, based on the evidence of anticorps against the hepatitis A virus (anti-HAV) showed that: 1) the speed of infection in very young children; 2) the large spread of this virus in rural african communities, accounted for by the living and hygiene conditions favours the spread to large numbers of people by way of mouth of the original enteric virus i.e. that of the hepatitis A.

[Cerebrospinal meningitis in Bamako from 1969 to 1978 strategic modifications].

The observation of cerebrospinal meningitidis at Bamako from 1969 to 1978 show that the incidence of morbidity and the lethality of meningitidis are raised specially. Because there epidemiologic factors, the reflection beared on the measures of wrestling antimicrobial and vaccinal prepossession to propose for control this situation.

[A focus of human and animal anthrax in the area surrounding Kati (Republic of Mali)].

Followed of one human and animal anthrax in the circle of Kati (Republic of Mali), 1978. This localized affection interested 84 men and 38 domesticated animals. The preventive dispositions of infection and damming in of transmission are considered.