Assessing the integration of skin screening into a mass drug administration campaign against neglected tropical diseases: A cross-sectional observational study from two districts in Côte d'Ivoire, 2023.

Background: The World Health Organization advocates integrating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) into common delivery platforms to combat them in resource-constrained settings. However, limited literature exists on the benefits of integration. This study examines the feasibility and impact of adding skin screening to a mass drug administration (MDA) campaign in Côte d'Ivoire.

Erratum: Prostate cancer clinical characteristics and outcomes in Central Sudan.

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Prostate cancer clinical characteristics and outcomes in Central Sudan.

Background: Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among Sudanese men and most patients present at a late stage. Although the incidence of prostate cancer in Sudan is low compared to other African countries, studies on prostate cancer in Sudan are limited. This study addresses the clinical characteristics and outcomes of prostate cancer in Central Sudan and its prognostic factors.

LXR/RXR pathway signaling associated with triple-negative breast cancer in African American women.

Background: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is more prevalent in African and African American (AA) women compared to European American (EA) women. African and AA women diagnosed with TNBC experience high frequencies of metastases and less favorable outcomes. Emerging evidence indicates that this disparity may in fact be the result of the uniquely aggressive biology of African and AA disease.

[Diagnosis of hematochezia in Abidjan Cocody University Hospital (Ivory Coast)].

Aim: To determine the prevalence of endoscopic lesions, according to age and location, in patients with rectal bleeding who underwent total colonoscopy.

Methods: Retrospective observational study examining records from the hepatogastroenterology department at the Cocody University Hospital (Abidjan) of colonoscopies for rectal examination from September 1, 1991, through August 15, 2007. The data collected and analyzed from the records included age, sex and colonoscopy results.

[Prevalence of HBs antigen carriage in a population of national Gendarmerie recruits in Ivory Coast in 2008].

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of HBsAg carriage in Ivorian gendarmerie recruits in 2008. This prevalence was 15.6%.

[Prevalence of HBs antigen in blood donors in the Bouaké regional centre of blood transfusion in 2001].

A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted in the regional center of blood transfusion in Bouaké from December 1, 2001 to February 28, 2002. One thousand two hundred thirty one new blood donors were tested. HBs Antigen detection was made according to ELISA technique (Hepanostika HBs Ag Uni-Form II).

Computational modeling of cell adhesion and movement using a continuum-kinetics approach.

Adhesion of leukocytes to substrate involves the coupling of disparate length and timescales between molecular mechanics and macroscopic transport, and existing models of cell adhesion do not use full cellular information. To address these challenges, a multiscale computational approach for studying the adhesion of a cell on a substrate is developed and assessed. The cellular level model consists of a continuum representation of the field equations and a moving boundary tracking capability to allow the cell to change its shape continuously.

[Materno-fetal transmission of hepatitis B virus in Ivory Coast. Plea for mass vaccination].

Background: Hepatitis B is a major public health problem in the developing countries of Africa and Asia because the prevalence of HBs antigen carriers is high. In Ivory Coast, the prevalence of HBs antigen carriers is more than 8% (6 to 29%). In these countries, in which hepatitis B is highly endemic, most infections with hepatitis B virus (HBV) occur during early childhood.

[Transmission in utero of the hepatitis B virus in ivory coast the case for mass vaccination].

Background. Hepatitis B is a major public health problem in the developing countries of Africa and Asia because the prevalence of HBs antigen carriers is high. In Ivory Coast, the prevalence of HBs antigen carriers is more than 8% (6 to 29%).

[Familial hepatocellular carcinoma in B or non-A non-B cirrhosis. Report of 4 families].

We report the cases of four families in whom 2 or 3 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma were observed. In the first family, the mother and 2 daughters had hepatocellular carcinoma. In 2 other families, 2 brothers had hepatocellular carcinoma.

Relative risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in HBsAg positive vs alcoholic cirrhosis. A cross-sectional study.

The etiological link between hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been suggested on epidemiologic, serologic and molecular grounds. This link has, however, recently been questioned by prospective studies suggesting that HBV infection also causes cirrhosis and that whatever the cause of cirrhosis, the risk of developing HCC could be roughly similar. All male patients first admitted to Hôpital Beaujon with cirrhosis or HCC from 1983 to 1987 were included in a cross-sectional study.

[Chronic calcifying pancreatitis in hospitals in the Ivory Coast].

The authors report on 34 cases of chronic calcifying pancreatitis in Ivory Coast. Chronic calcifying pancreatitis is rare (0.24 P.