Publications by authors named "M F Sidibe"
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- A 7-year-old child experienced chronic painful swallowing (odynophagia) that didn't improve despite various treatments and medications.
- Examination revealed swollen tonsils that obstructed the throat, leading to a decision to perform tonsillectomy.
- During the surgery, doctors unexpectedly discovered a large fishbone lodged in the child's right tonsil, but after the procedure, the child recovered well over a 12-month follow-up.
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- The European Union includes 30 outermost and overseas countries and territories (OCTs), where renal transplantation is growing, but many patients still seek treatment in continental Europe, necessitating collaborative care.
- Each OCT has its own infectious disease patterns, which are crucial for ensuring effective post-transplant care for kidney transplant recipients (KTRs).
- The paper suggests a practical approach to enhance pre-transplant evaluations and provides region-specific epidemiological data, advocating for more collaborative research among the OCTs to improve care for infected KTRs.
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- - Albinism is caused by a variety of genes (21 identified), with most cases following an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern, though one form is X-linked; about 70% of cases can be diagnosed through genetic analysis.
- - Of the undiagnosed cases, roughly 15% carry one pathogenic variant but may have undiscovered variants in non-coding regions; this research involved sequencing a group of 122 heterozygous patients.
- - From the study, 12 patients received additional diagnoses based on non-coding variants that affected RNA splicing, highlighting the need to investigate non-coding regions to improve diagnostic rates for genetic diseases like albinism.
Background: The sero-epidemiological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Mali are not yet well understood. This study assessed SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence and factors associated with antibody responses in the general population of Bamako, the capital city and epicenter of COVID-19, to assess the magnitude of the pandemic and contribute to control strategy improvements in Mali.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in September 2022 to collect sociodemographic information, clinical characteristics, comorbid factors, and blood samples.