Publications by authors named "Naoui H"

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  • * The case involved a 46-year-old female cleaner who experienced intermittent emissions of worms in her urine, initially misdiagnosed as cystitis, but later confirmed to have larvae in her urine.
  • * After treatment with ivermectin and hydration, her symptoms resolved, and a follow-up confirmed no presence of larvae, indicating a complete recovery.
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Bone cystic echinococcosis is rare disease and its management remain difficult to treat due to frequent recurrences, related to certain locations such as proximal femur and ilium, where radical surgery is difficult to achieve. Medical therapy using Mebendazol can be an ultimate way to insure stabilization and remission of the parasitosis. We present a case of a 37-year-old male who had complaints of pain in left hip and limp four years after surgical management of pertrochanteric fracture of his right lower limb.

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is the etiological agent of cystic echinococcosis (CE), also commonly called hydatidosis. This is a zoonotic infection endemic worldwide, including the Mediterranean basin and Morocco. The genetic variability of is known to influence development of parasitic cysts in different intermediate hosts, and therefore the epidemiology of infection.

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Tick-borne relapsing fever is a zoonosis caused by spirochetes of the genus Borrelia, transmitted by hematophagous ticks. This life-threatening condition is still misdiagnosed. We report a case of tick-borne relapsing fever in a 54 year-old man in Morocco with a history of hiking, who was hospitalized for an isolated fever.

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Introduction: The aim of our study was to evaluate the concordance between the two antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida sp. isolates using agar diffusion method: Neo-Sensitabs(®) tablets and Bio-Rad(®) disks.

Materials And Methods: This is a prospective study conducted in the Laboratory of Parasitology and Mycology of the Mohammed V military teaching hospital from February to August 2012.

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Trichosporon asahii is a basidiomycete yeast responsible for white piedra and onychomycosis in the immunocompetent host. In the immunocompromised patients, invasive infections are reported; their diagnosis is difficult and they are associated with high mortality rate. Urinary infection due to Trichosporon Asahi is rare but its incidence increasing.

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