Primary and opportunistic pathogens associated with meningitis in adults in Bangui, Central African Republic, in relation to human immunodeficiency virus serostatus.

Objective: To determine the causative organisms and characteristics of patients presenting with meningitis in Bangui in order to provide guidance to physicians for case management.

Methods: Adults with proven or suspected meningitis were enrolled in this prospective study.

Laboratory Tests: Full blood count, blood chemistry, and HIV tests were performed.

Bacteremia in adults admitted to the Department of Medicine of Bangui Community Hospital (Central African Republic).

To determine which pathogens are responsible for bloodstream infections in Bangui and to which antibiotics these pathogens are resistant, we conducted a prospective study of the bacteria isolated from the blood of febrile patients hospitalized in the department of medicine of the Bangui Community Hospital after the failure of antimalarial treatment. One hundred and thirty-one patients were included in this study. Bacteria were identified in 49 blood cultures (37.

[Tuberculosis and HIV in Bangui, Central African Republic: strong prevalence and management difficulties].

The increasing incidence of tuberculosis in relation with the HIV-AIDS epidemic poses a major public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this retrospective study was to analyze the prevalence of HIV-1 infection, clinical presentation, and bacteriological findings in patients treated for tuberculosis in a hospital department in Bangui, Central African Republic between January 1996 and December 1998. Among the 1142 patients who benefited for HIV serology, HIV-1 prevalence of was 82% (IC95%: 79-85%).

Chronic diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, and hemolytic-uremic syndrome associated with HEp-2 adherent Escherichia coli in adults infected with human immunodeficiency virus in Bangui, Central African Republic.

In human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected adults from the Central African Republic, the occurrence of chronic diarrhea due to HEp-2 adherent Escherichia coli (EAEC) harboring virulence markers (eaeA, BFP, EAF, astA determinant of EAST/1, positive FAS test, enteropathogenic E. coli O serogroup) was shown to be associated with AIDS. We also show that EAEC that produce verotoxin (Stx2) but do not harbor the genetic markers for classical enterohemorrhagic E.

Etiologies of acute, persistent, and dysenteric diarrheas in adults in Bangui, Central African Republic, in relation to human immunodeficiency virus serostatus.

A study of the etiologies of diarrhea in adults in relation to their human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) serostatus and number of CD4+ cells was carried out in the Central African Republic. In cases and controls, multi-parasitism was observed. Salmonella spp.

[Lung cancer with elevated amylase activity. One observation with study of amylase's isoenzymes (author's transl)].

Amylase is composed by two isoenzymes groups: pancreatic or salivary type. This last part can be increased in many diseases. A case of lung cancer with elevated amylase activity in blood, urine and pleural fluid is reported in a 74-year-old man.