Neuromeningeal tuberculosis in HIV-negative patients: a retrospective study in Rabat, Morocco.

Neuro-Meningeal Tuberculosis (NMT) is a severe infection of the central nervous system which causes a public health problem in Morocco and in several countries in the world. In order to describe the epidemiological, clinical, paraclinical and outcome among NMT patients without HIV, we carried out a retrospective study at the neurology department of the Military Hospital of Rabat in Morocco, over a period of 17 years (2000-2017). Forty patients were included with a mean age of 44 years (± 18) and a sex ratio of 1.

Exceptional association of two species of bacteria causing mediastinitis: Haemophilus influenzae (H. influenzae) and Aggregatibacter aphrophilus (A. aphrophilus).

Background: Post cardiac surgery mediastinitis is the major infectious complication, despite the development of surgical techniques and the application of strict preventive measures. The Haemophilus influenzae mediastinitis is very rare. The mediastinitis caused by the association between Haemophilus influenzae and Aggregatibacter aphrophilus has never been described to our knowledge.

Profile and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Bacteria Isolates in Burn Patients Hospitalized in a Moroccan Hospital: A Cross-sectional Study.

Objective: The aim of this cross-sectional study is to assess the epidemiological profile and antibiotic susceptibility of bacteria isolates in burn patients hospitalized from 2007 to 2015 in a Moroccan hospital.

Materials And Methods: Of 627 samples, 451 wounds, 126 blood cultures, and 50 catheter samples were analyzed. A total of 610 microorganisms were isolated from a total of 108 patients.

Intensive care unit-acquired infections in a Moroccan teaching hospital: epidemiology, risk factors and outcome.

Introduction: The objective of this study was to examine the epidemiology, risk factors and outcome associated with infections in the intensive care units (ICUs) in a Moroccan teaching hospital.

Methods: This is a matched case-control study conducted as a joint collaboration between the clinical Bacteriology department and the two ICUs of Mohammed V Military Teaching Hospital from January 2015 to July 2016.

Results: Among 964 patients hospitalized in the ICUs, 81 (8.

Bacteriological aspects of chronic osteoarticular infections in adults: the influence of the osteosynthesis material.

Background: The aim of this study is to establish the bacterial epidemiology of chronic osteoarticular infections in adults, to study the susceptibility of the isolated strains to antibiotics and to demonstrate the influence of osteosynthesis material thereon.

Patients And Methods: This is a retrospective study of 78 months, from January 2006 to June 2012, providing bacteriological samples from patients with osteitis and osteoarthritis in the Mohammed V military teaching hospital of Rabat. Isolation and identification of bacteria were made by bacteriological classical techniques.

Brucellosis: A cause of meningitis not to neglect.

Brucellosis is the most frequent bacteria zoonosis in the world, with more than half a million new cases each year [1]. It is also the most significant zoonos in the edge of the Mediterranean Sea [2]. This zoonosis is capable of affecting humans and cause polymorphic clinical manifestations.

Clonal diversity and detection of carbapenem resistance encoding genes among multidrug-resistant isolates recovered from patients and environment in two intensive care units in a Moroccan hospital.

Background: Carbapenem-resistant has recently been defined by the World Health Organization as a critical pathogen. The aim of this study was to compare clonal diversity and carbapenemase-encoding genes of isolates collected from colonized or infected patients and hospital environment in two intensive care units (ICUs) in Morocco.

Methods: The patient and environmental sampling was carried out in the medical and surgical ICUs of Mohammed V Military teaching hospital from March to August 2015.

Bacteraemia in Intensive Care Unit: Clinical, Bacteriological, and Prognostic Prospective Study.

We conducted a one-year observational study from December 2012 to November 2013 to describe the epidemiology of bacteraemia in intensive care units (ICU) of Mohammed V Military Teaching Hospital of Rabat (Morocco). The study consisted of monitoring all blood cultures coming from intensive care units and studying the bacteriological profile of positive blood cultures as well as their clinical significance. During this period, a total of 46 episodes of bacteraemia occurred, which corresponds to a rate of 15,4/1000 patients.

In vitro evaluation of the susceptibility of isolates to antiseptics and disinfectants: comparison between clinical and environmental isolates.

Background: This study aims to assess the susceptibility of isolates to the antiseptics and disinfectants commonly used, and to the non-approved product.

Methods: This is a prospective study carried out from February to August 2015, in the Bacteriology department of Mohammed V Military Teaching hospital of Rabat on isolates collected from colonized and/or infected patients and environmental samples. The antiseptics and disinfectants susceptibility testing was assessed using the micromethod validated in our department.

[Postoperative pulmonary disease associated with haemophilus influenzae and neisseria meningitidis in a diabetic child].

Haemophilus influenzae is a saprophyte that colonizes the nasopharynx in nearly two thirds of children and adults. Neisseria meningitidis is a strict human bacterium which lives in the nasopharynx. It can cause benign nasopharyngitis or asymptomatic colonization.

Acinetobacter infections prevalence and frequency of the antibiotics resistance: comparative study of intensive care units versus other hospital units.

Introduction: This study aims to determine the Acinetobacter sp clinical isolates frequency and its antibiotic susceptibility pattern by comparing results obtained from the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) to that of other units at the Mohammed V Military Teaching Hospital in Rabat.

Methods: This is a retrospective study over a 2-years period where we collected all clinical isolates of Acinetobacter sp obtained from samples for infection diagnosis performed on hospitalized patients between 2012 to 2014.

Results: During the study period, 441 clinical and non-repetitive isolates of Acinetobacter sp were collected representing 6.

Place of Colistin-Rifampicin Association in the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii Meningitis: A Case Study.

Treatment of Acinetobacter baumannii meningitis is an important challenge due to the accumulation of resistance of this bacteria and low meningeal diffusion of several antimicrobial requiring use of an antimicrobial effective combination to eradicate these species. We report a case of Acinetobacter baumannii multidrug-resistant nosocomial meningitis which was successfully treated with intravenous and intrathecal colistin associated with rifampicin.

Diabetic Foot Infection in Morocco: Microbiological Profile.

Objective: The objective of this work is to describe the microbiology of diabetic foot infections (DFIs).

Materials And Methods: The authors included all samples of infected diabetic foot ulcers between January 2009 and June 2014 at the Mohammed Vth Military Teaching Hospital of Rabat, Morocco.

Results: The researchers collected 199 samples corresponding to 157 patients.

Navicular tuberculosis: A rare localization of bone tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a global public health problem endemic to Morocco. While extrapulmonary TB uncommonly presents in osteoarticular anatomic locations, tarsal or metatarsal osteitis can occur when TB presents in the tarsal bones. Clinical symptoms are often insidious causing a delay in diagnosis that may lead to bone destruction.

Evaluation of antimicrobial susceptibility of Escherichia coli strains isolated in Rabat University Hospital (Morocco).

Background: Escherichia coli (E. coli) is the most commonly isolated bacteria in human pathology. In Morocco the data concerning the nature and the rates of antibiotic resistance of E.

Urethritis due to corynebacterium striatum: An emerging germ.

Corynedbacterium striatum (CS) is a Gram-positive coryneform bacillus that is part of mucous and skin flora. It has been considered as a causative agent of many infections in intensive care, neurology, traumatology and urology, but was never implicated in non-gonococcal urethritis. We report the case of a nosocomial urethritis due to Corynebacterium striatum following resection of an intrameatus condyloma.