CRAWLING: a crowdsourcing algorithm on wheels for smart parking.

We present the principled design of CRAWLING: a CRowdsourcing Algorithm on WheeLs for smart parkING. CRAWLING is an in-car service for the routing of connected cars. Specifically, cars equipped with our service are able to crowdsource data from third-parties, including other cars, pedestrians, smart sensors and social media, in order to fulfill a given routing task.

Lyme neuroborreliosis in pediatrics: A retrospective, descriptive study in southwest France.

Background: The neurological effects of Lyme borreliosis in children are varied and their clinical progression is not widely reported in the French literature. We carried out a retrospective study to describe the clinical characteristics of Lyme neuroborreliosis in children in southwest France and their clinical progression at 6 months.

Methods: This study was carried out at Toulouse University Hospital during the period 2006-2017 using patient records.

Iron deficiency among French whole-blood donors: first assessment and identification of predictive factors.

Background: The objectives of this study are to estimate the prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) among French whole-blood (WB) donors to identify factors associated with ID and to generate decision trees.

Study Design And Methods: A prospective National multicentre study was performed on WB donors from March 11, to April 5th, 2019. Samples were selected randomly to perform serum ferritin.

Noncompliance to blood donor selection criteria by men who have sex with men - Complidon 2017, France.

Background And Objectives: In France, blood donation deferral for men who have sex with men (MSM) was reduced from permanent to 12 months in July 2016. Assessing noncompliance (rate and reasons) with this criterion is important to maintain a high level of viral safety in blood products.

Materials And Methods: An anonymous online survey (Complidon) of a sample of blood donors was conducted in 2017.

French lyophilized plasma versus normal saline for post-traumatic coagulopathy prevention and correction: PREHO-PLYO protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial.

Background: Post-trauma bleeding induces an acute deficiency in clotting factors, which promotes bleeding and hemorrhagic shock. However, early plasma administration may reduce the severity of trauma-induced coagulopathy (TIC). Unlike fresh frozen plasma, which requires specific hospital logistics, French lyophilized plasma (FLYP) is storable at room temperature and compatible with all blood types, supporting its use in prehospital emergency care.

[Biological procedures, civil and military health facilities, and recommendations of good practice and hospital reform: the example of diabetes management].

In the context of implementing hospital reforms, the objective of this work was to compare practice in relation to evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for good practice in diabetes screening and management. Laboratory test consumption was determined for patients hospitalized for diabetes in 2005 in three public hospitals (one civilian, two military) taking care of diabetic patients and performing related biological tests. For the 395 admissions in these three hospitals during 2005 [Diagnosis-related group (DRG) 10M02V "Diabetes, age 36 to 69 years without co-morbidity"], the average length of stay and the number of biological acts ["B"] performed were lower than those given by the French national health cost study scale and by the Montpellier University Hospital database.

[Infectious aetiologies of travelers' diarrhoea].

Traveler's diarrhoea (TD) occurs in 20 to 60% of European or North-American travelers in intertropical areas. Following return from endemic zone, malaria must always be evocated in front of febrile diarrhoea. Many causative infectious agents are involved in TD and their frequency may vary according to destination and seasons.

[Pasteurella dagmatis: an unusual cause of vertebral osteomyelitis].

Vertebral osteomyelitis is a quite rare but severe cause of back pain in adults. Various causative organisms have been reported. Pasteurella species have rarely been isolated.

[Community-acquired urinary tract infections in 15 to 65 years old female patients in France. Susceptibility of E. coli according to history: AFORCOPI-BIO network 2003].

Objectives: A multicenter study was implemented in order to determine the distribution and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of strains isolated from 15 to 65 year old female patients with community-acquired urinary tract infections.

Patients And Methods: From October to December 2003, 11 French private laboratories consecutively collected 420 clinical strains with medical data. Minimal inhibitory concentrations of antibiotics on E.

[Arthritis without urethritis: remember gonococcus].

Introduction: Septic arthritis caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae is mono or pauciarticular. They represent a nonrare cause of arthritis in sexually active adults. He is necessary to think of it even in the absence of urethritis.

[Pasteurella dagmatis spondylodiscitis in a diabetic patient].

Introduction: Healthy pets contact are able to induce unusual and severe diseases.

Clinical Case: This case reports the medical history of a dorsal spondylodiscitis in a diabetic patient admitted for a chronic wound of his toes. He had a long-standing history of regular consumption of alcohol and tobacco.

[Outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in military population coming back from French Guiana].

Background: An outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis occurred among 71 soldiers who had participated in various missions during a 4-month's period in French Guiana. The aims of this study were (i) to describe outbreak and (ii) to determine risk factors of cutaneous leishmaniasis.

Methods: All patients were hospitalised.

First identification of the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis in Djibouti: Leishmania donovani.

The first identification of the Leishmania species responsible for visceral leishmaniasis in Djibouti is described. Four strains, obtained from three autochthonous cases, were identified by starch-gel electrophoresis and iso-enzyme analysis of 15 enzymatic systems. The strains were found to belong to two newly recognized zymodemes of L.

[Which betalactam antibiotic use as a marker of multiresistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa?].

The determination of an indicating antibiotic for multiresistance, as methicillin in staphylococci, can be useful for Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Until now, the majority of the hygienists used ticarcillin, ceftazidim or imipenem in their investigations as markers of multiresistance for this species. Piperacillin has never been proposed for this purpose.

[Extreme obesity in Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS)].

Introduction: Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) belong to genetic obesities and we report a caricatural observation.

Development: The early onset of (PWS) is characterised by a severe neonatal hypotonia with poor suck reflex--which may lead to tube feeding--and poor weight gain. Later appears insatiable appetite, morbid obesity associated with short stature, dysmorphic syndrome with small hands and behavioural disorders.

Effect of beta-lactam antibiotics on the in vitro development of resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Objective: To investigate whether stepwise selection of resistance mutations maz mirror the continued bacterial exposure to antibiotics that occurs in the clinical setting.

Methods: We examined the in vitro development of resistance to a number of commonly used antibiotics (cefepime, cefpirome, ceftazidime, cefataxime, piperacillin and imipenem) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a significant nosocomial pathogen. Stepwise resistance was assessed by serial passage of colonies located nearest to the inhibition zone on antibiotic-containing gradient plates.

Human cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania naiffi is wide-spread in South America.

Four human cases of localized cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania naiffi are reported. Two of the cases were infected in French Guiana, one in French Guiana or Martinique, and the other in Ecuador or Peru. The geographical distribution of L.

[Clinical and biological surveillance of envenomed patients].

Faced with an envenomation, the problem is to take sufficiently rapidly the decision to administer the only effective treatment--immunotherapy--, to know which antivenom to choose and how long to administrate it. If the snake is not identified, symptoms and initial development give information on the type of venom. It is convenient to classify the symptoms according to four clinical types: i) the cobra syndrome with a potentially fatal evolution within two to ten hours and which resembles an Elapid bite, ii) the viper syndrome associating bleeding and inflammation, which can be due either to a viper, pit viper or, in Australia, to Elapids, iii) disturbance of blood circulating functions and iv) disturbance of other live functions.

[Antibiotic sensitivity of Salmonella isolated in army hospitals between 1998-1999].

Objectives: Monitor the evolution in France of antibiotic sensitivity of non-typhoid salmonella isolated in fecal cultures conducted in army hospital laboratories.

Methods: A prospective study was performed from January 1998 to December 1999 in all the biology departments of the 11 army hospitals in France. All the non-repetitive strains were sent to an official center for serotyping and determination of the minimum inhibiting concentrations, by dilution in Mueller Hinton's gelose.

[Evaluation of the OptiMal test in the diagnosis of imported malarial outbreak].

The OptiMal test is an immuno-chromatographic dipstick test that permits indiscriminate detection of Plasmodium falciparum and other species of human malaria. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the test for diagnosis of imported malaria. A total of 244 patients with a presumptive diagnosis of imported malaria in France were included during the study period.

Effect of beta-lactam antibiotics on the in vitro development of resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Objective: To investigate whether stepwise selection of resistance mutations may mirror the continued bacterial exposure to antibiotics that occurs in the clinical setting.

Methods: We examined the in vitro development of resistance to a number of commonly used antibiotics (cefepime, cefpirome, ceftazidime, cefotaxime, piperacillin and imipenem) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a significant nosocomial pathogen. Stepwise resistance was assessed by serial passage of colonies located nearest to the inhibition zone on antibiotic-containing gradient plates.

[Sensitivity to antibiotics of bacteria from nosocomial infections. Evolution in resuscitation services of military hospitals].

Objective: The aim of this study, conducted in the French Military hospitals, was to monitor the course of the antimicrobial sensibility of bacteria isolated from nosocomial infection in intensive care units.

Patients And Methods: A prospective study has been conducted from January to December 1998 in all the intensive care units of the French Army. All the non-repetitive strains isolated from nosocomial infection were collected and sent to a reference centre.