[Stem cell transplantation in Morocco: report of 87 cases].

Purpose: The autologous peripheral blood stem cells (CSP) are used as a support to the restoration of the hematopoiesis in oncohematology. The objective of this work, carried out in the laboratory of cryobiology at the Center Regional of Blood Transfusion, Casablanca, is to assess the short- and long-term results of this type of autograft.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective study focused on 87 patients treated for hematological malignancies in services of oncohaematology over a period from June 2004 to March 2009.

[Kluyvera bacteriemia: an epidemic in a Moroccan teaching hospital].

Kluyvera Spp is an enterobacterium rarely isolated in medical microbiology, an opportunistic pathogen the clinical significance of which remains unclear. Four strains of Kluyvera Spp were isolated for the first time in the Ibn Rochd Teaching Hospital microbiology laboratory. These strains were isolated in hemocultures of four patients hospitalized in the same medical ward, at the same time, and presenting with bacteriemia.

[Prevalence and in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Acinetobacter baumannii strains in a Moroccan university hospital].

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the clinical presentations and the current antimicrobial susceptibility of Acinetobacter baumannii.

Results: We identified 754 strains especially from intensive care units (50.53%) between January 2003 and December 2005.