[Major sickle cell syndromes and infections associated with this condition in children in Burkina Faso].

Introduction: This study aims to investigate infections in children with major sickle cell syndrome.

Methods: We conducted a monocentric descriptive retrospective hospital study in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, over a ten-year period. All children with major sickle cell syndrome (homozygous SS and double heterozygous SC, SD, Sβ thalassemic, SO and SE) hospitalized for microbiologically confirmed infections were enrolled in the study.