Case Report: Pan-Drug Resistant from a Child with an Infected Burn Wound at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali, Rwanda.

Background: is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in intensive care units, and is prevalent in nosocomial infections and cystic fibrosis. The increasing rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) complicate the treatment of infections, especially because of the multidrug resistance (MDR), extensively drug-resistant (XDR), and pan-drug resistant (PDR) strains.

Case Presentation: We report the case of a 4-year-old male with severe burns covering 45% of his body surface who developed nosocomial PDR infection at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) in Rwanda.

Rediscovery of the critically endangered Hill's horseshoe bat () and other new records of bat species in Rwanda.

Background: For forty years, there has been growing uncertainty about whether Hill's horseshoe bat () still persists in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda. Only known from one small area within the National Park, is listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), based on its extremely small geographic range and presumed low number of mature individuals. Here, we present and describe bat species occurrence data contributed to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) that we collected as part of a long-term collaborative project to rediscover this lost species.

Pediatric rheumatic carditis in Italy and Rwanda: The same disease, different socio-economic settings.

Background: Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease are the leading cause of acquired heart disease in Low-Income Countries, and a common cause in High-Income Countries. We compared rheumatic carditis, its echocardiographic presentation at diagnosis and its progression in Italy and Rwanda.

Methods: Retrospective study including all consecutive patients diagnosed with rheumatic carditis in an Italian (IT) and two Rwandan Hospitals (RW).

Chimpanzee ranging responses to fruit availability in a high-elevation environment.

Most primates experience seasonal fluctuations in the availability of food resources and face the challenge of balancing energy expenditure with energy gain during periods of resource scarcity. This is likely to be particularly challenging in rugged, montane environments, where available energy is relatively low and travel costs are high. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) show extensive behavioral diversity across study sites.

Shifting through the forest: home range, movement patterns, and diet of the eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda.

Populations of the endangered eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) are declining throughout their range. Although Nyungwe National Park (NNP) harbors the largest remaining eastern chimpanzee population in Rwanda, we know little about their space use and dietary patterns. We studied home range, movement, and diet of two communities of chimpanzees in NNP using daily tracking data (6:00 am to 6:00 pm) collected from 2000 to 2015.