Prevalence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria among people with acid-fast positive presumptive tuberculosis in Mali.

Background: Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are environmental agents that can cause opportunistic pulmonary disease in humans and animals, often misdiagnosed as tuberculosis (TB). In this study, we describe the cases of NTM identified during the first national anti-TB drug resistance survey conducted in Mali and explore associated risk factors.

Methods: Sputum was collected from people presenting for pulmonary TB diagnosis from April to December 2019, regardless of age.

[Penetrating abdominal wounds caused by weapons in the service of general surgery in the Gabriel Touré teaching hospital].

Introduction: Providing care for penetrating abdominal wounds is a controversial subject. The aim of this project was to describe their epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study conducted over 4 years, from January 2006 to January 2010 concerned 70 cases of penetrating abdominal injury in the general surgery department of the Gabriel TOURE teaching hospital.

[Acute generalized peritonitis in Sominé Dolo's Hospital of Mopti: Epidemiologic and therapeutic aspects].

Unlabelled: Acute generalized peritonitis requires precocious diagnosis and immediate treatment.

Materials And Methods: The purpose of this study is to determine hospital case frequency, to describe the clinical and therapeutic aspects and to evaluate the operating suites. We conducted a prospective study, lasting 16 months, from January 2005 to April 2006, looking at 40 cases of generalized acute peritonitis operated in several services, including a general surgery department, of the Sominé Dolo's hospital of Mopti.

[Epidemiologic and therapeutic factors of postoperative incisional hernia at CHU Gabriel Touré].

Introduction: The incisional hernia is a frequent complication of the opened abdominal surgery. The objectives of this study were to determine the hospital frequency and the favoritizing factors, to analyze the therapeutic aspects.

Materials And Methods: We realized a retrospective study from January, 1999 to December, 2005 in the services of general and paediatric surgery of teaching hospital Gabriel Touré.

[Omphalocele in general and pediatric surgery in Gabriel Touré].

Introduction: the omphalocèle is an evolution of the extra embryonic coulombs between the 32th and the 72th days of the pregnancy. The treatment depends on his volume. In Mali; few works were published on the omphalocèle and its treatment.