Purpose: Imported malaria frequency is increasing in France. Moselle, a north-east French county, with high concentration of servicemen going in endemic areas, follows the same trend.
Methods: Clinical, epidemiological aspects and treatment of all malaria attacks diagnosed over 3 years (from 1st january 1996 to 31st january 1999) were studied.
When two cholera epidemics broke out in Djibouti, respectively in 1993 and 1994, Bioforce was obliged to intervene. The first time, three goals were pursued: setting up a rehydration centre in a tent, organizing epidemiological surveillance and training local personnel in treatment and diagnosis techniques. The next year, the epidemic followed serious flooding.
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September 1994
In the course of a clinical trial designed to re-examine the bactericidal efficiency of 600-mg doses of rifampin (RMP) against Mycobacterium leprae, two doses of RMP, either 600 mg or 1200 mg, were administered 28 days apart to 29 previously untreated patients with lepromatous or borderline leprosy. Seven, 28, and 35 days after the start of the trial, skin biopsies were performed and immunologically normal mice were inoculated with 5 x 10(3) or 10(4) M. leprae in each hind foot pad.
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