Prevalence of hypertension and other cardiovascular disease risk factors among university students from the National Polytechnic Institute of Côte d'Ivoire: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading causes of death in the world, mainly occurring in low-and-middle income countries. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors among university students at a National Polytechnic Institute in Côte d'Ivoire.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among students of the National Polytechnic Institute of Côte d'Ivoire.

[Management of a global health crisis: first COVID-19 disease feedback from Overseas and French-speaking countries medical biologists].

The French society of clinical biology "Biochemical markers of COVID-19" has set up a working group with the primary aim of reviewing, analyzing and monitoring the evolution of biological prescriptions according to the patient's care path and to look for markers of progression and severity of the disease. This study covers all public and private sectors of medical biology located in metropolitan and overseas France and also extends to the French-speaking world. This article presents the testimonies and data obtained for the "Overseas and French-speaking countries" sub-working group made up of 45 volunteer correspondents, located in 20 regions of the world.

[Epidemiology of induced abortion in Côte d'Ivoire].

The objective of this study was to examine induced abortion in Côte d'Ivoire. A nationwide cross-sectional descriptive study of induced abortion was carried out in 2007 among 3,057 women aged 15-49 years. The study showed that induced abortion is a widespread practice in Côte d'Ivoire, with a prevalence estimated at 42.

Aquatic plants stimulate the growth of and biofilm formation by Mycobacterium ulcerans in axenic culture and harbor these bacteria in the environment.

Mycobacterium ulcerans is the causative agent of Buruli ulcer, one of the most common mycobacterial diseases of humans. Recent studies have implicated aquatic insects in the transmission of this pathogen, but the contributions of other elements of the environment remain largely unknown. We report here that crude extracts from two green algae added to the BACTEC 7H12B culture medium halved the doubling time of M.

Susceptibility of Mycobacterium ulcerans to a combination of amikacin/rifampicin.

The effectiveness of rifampicin (RIF), amikacin (AMK) and their combination were estimated in the treatment of mice experimentally infected by Mycobacterium ulcerans and the risk of relapse after the treatment was evaluated. After 7 weeks of treatment with RIF or with the combination of AMK/RIF and 8 weeks with AMK alone, no viable bacilli were found in the infected tissues and these remained uninfected during the following 6 months. Among the mice treated with AMK alone, three mice relapsed, but the minimal inhibitory concentration of AMK for these isolates remained unchanged.