[Tetanus, an infectious disease still topical in Lome (Togo)].

Introduction: Tetanus still remains a public health problem in Togo despite the existence of the Expanded Program on Immunization.

Patients And Method: A retrospective and descriptive cohort study was performed from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2018 in the infectious and tropical diseases department of Sylvanus Olympio teaching hospital of Lome (Togo) on tetanus cases.

Results: We included 208 tetanus cases accounting for 6.

[Efficacy of highly active antiretroviral therapy alone in the treatment of diffuse lymphocytic infiltration syndrome in an ivorian patient living with HIV: a case report].

Objective: We report in this work the efficacy of highly active antiretrovirals (ARVs) alone in the treatment of diffuse infiltrative lymphocytosis syndrome (DILS) without the use of corticosteroids, which appears risky in patients living with HIV.

Observation: This is a 60-year-old HIV-positive patient, discovered during the etiological workup of renal failure, which revealed a non-nephrotic glomerular profile. The renal biopsy found an interstitial infiltrate of CD8 suggestive of DILS.

[Prevalence and Management of Snake Bite Envenomation at the Regional Hospital Center of Sokodé (Togo)].

Snakebite envenomation (SBE) is a public health issue in Africa, unfortunately neglected and underestimated. SBE is a medical emergency that can be devastating and lifethreatening. A retrospective study was performed from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 in the general medicine department of the Regional Hospital Center (CHR), Sokodé.

[Thromboembolic manifestations in 36 HIV-infected patients in West Africa].

In HIV-infected patients thromboembolic disease is a complication linked to heightened risk. In Ivory Coast no study has been conducted on HIV-infected patients treated in HIV Services. The aim of our study is to describe HIV-associated thromboembolic manifestations in patients treated or untreated with antiretroviral drugs whose data were collected in the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Service (ITDS).