[Preliminary study: Lower urinary tract dysfunction and anorectal disorders in children with cerebral palsy].

Goal: Describe lower urinary tract dysfunction and anorectal disorders to children with cerebral palsy (CP), indicating their impact on quality of life.

Materials: This was a prospective single-center study. A data collection was: type of PC, Gross Motor Function-Classification System (GMF-CS), mainstream education or not, Functional Independence Measure in children (MIF-kid), standardized vesicosphincteric symptoms and quality of life questionnaires (specific issue of impact sphincter dysfunction and generic scale Kidscreen-52).

Redescription of Hepatozoon felis (Apicomplexa: Hepatozoidae) based on phylogenetic analysis, tissue and blood form morphology, and possible transplacental transmission.

Background: A Hepatozoon parasite was initially reported from a cat in India in 1908 and named Leucocytozoon felis domestici. Although domestic feline hepatozoonosis has since been recorded from Europe, Africa, Asia and America, its description, classification and pathogenesis have remained vague and the distinction between different species of Hepatozoon infecting domestic and wild carnivores has been unclear. The aim of this study was to carry out a survey on domestic feline hepatozoonosis and characterize it morphologically and genetically.

First evidence and molecular characterization of Babesia vogeli in naturally infected dogs and Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks in southern France.

Babesiosis is an emerging tick-borne disease of animals and humans caused by intraerythrocytic protozoa of the genera Babesia and Theileria. In France canine babesiosis has a high prevalence with Babesia canis thought to be the main aetiological agent of the disease. Babesia vogeli has already been reported to occur in Europe and in other countries around the Mediterranean Sea.

[Epidemiology and management of stroke patients in emergency departments of the Centre region of France].

Introduction: Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability. Patients with suspected stroke are usually managed in emergency departments (ED). Stroke units must be created in our country, but only few French epidemiological data are available to define needs in stroke care.

Phylogenetic analysis of hemoplasma species: an international study.

Nearly complete 16S rRNA gene sequences for feline and canine hemoplasma isolates from Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia showed almost 100% identity to those previously reported for United States isolates. Partial sequences of the RNA subunit of the RNase P gene were also determined, and RNase P-based phylogenetic analysis showed that the hemoplasmas are most closely related to the members of the Mycoplasma pneumoniae group.