[Prevalence of HBs antigen carriage in a population of national Gendarmerie recruits in Ivory Coast in 2008].

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of HBsAg carriage in Ivorian gendarmerie recruits in 2008. This prevalence was 15.6%.

[Morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases at the Military Hospital of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire].

Objectives: To determine the proportion of infectious diseases and their lethality at the Abidjan Military Hospital.

Patients And Methods: This cross-sectional study examined the medical files of patients hospitalized in the internal medicine unit of the hospital during 2004.

Results: The study included 668 patients with 855 diseases, 579 of them infectious (67.

[Characteristics of chronic renal failure in black adult patients hospitalized in the Internal Medicine department of Treichville University Hospital].

Objective: To describe the epidemiological, clinical, biological aspects, treatment and outcome of chronic renal failure.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on medical data of 301 inpatients with chronic renal failure from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2008 in the internal medicine department of Treichville university hospital.

Results: The hospital prevalence of chronic renal failure was 7.

[Current aspects of neuromeningeal cryptococcosis in adults infected with HIV in the internal medicine service of the University Hospital of Treichville Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire)].

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of neuromeningeal cryptococcosis (NMC) and reporting sociodemographic, clinical, paraclinical aspects and outcome of patients.

Methods: It was a retrospective study concerning 22 HIV positive patients hospitalized between 2006 to and 2009 in the internal medicine service of University Hospital of Treichville for NMC.

Results: The prevalence of NMC in patients infected with HIV was 0.