Qualitative study on the use and maintenance of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in Bouaké (Côte d'Ivoire), 17 months after the last mass distribution campaign.

Background: The use of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) is one of the main malaria prevention method promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Côte d'Ivoire. LLIN-coverage has reached 95% since 2015 and nearly 16 million LLINs were distributed in 2017. Despite these efforts, malaria incidence at the national level remains high (120‰ in 2012 to 164‰ in 2017) although this could be partly explained by increased screening efforts.

[Efficacy against Malaria Vectors of Long-Lasting Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets after 17 Months of Use in the City of Bouaké, in the Center of Côte d'Ivoire].

Malaria remains a public health problem in Côte d'Ivoire despite a 95% coverage rate with long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets (LLINs) since 2015. A study was conducted in Bouaké to determine the residual efficacy of LLINs used during 17 months (N = 30) and of stored and unpacked LLINs (N = 8). The physical integrity of LLINs and their biological efficacy on populations of Anopheles gambiae (sensitive and resistant to insecticides) were assessed.

Effects of Alchornea cordifolia on elastase and superoxide anion produced by human neutrophils.

The ability of Alchornea cordifolia (Schum. and Thonn.) Müll.

[Portal vein: variations of its branches (about 32 dissections)].

Purpose: The aim of this study is to precise the variations of portal vein branches and also to elucidate anatomic basis of partial hepatectomy.

Material And Methods: Thirty-two post-mortem specimens, with ages ranged from one day to sixty-five years in both two sexes, were dissected. Latex and Rhodopas were used for visualizing and drawing the portal vein course and its branches.

[The uteropelvic junction in children: from the clinical problems to the morphogenetic approach].

The responsibility of the uteropelvic junction (UPJ) syndrome or abnormalities for renal affections and also for high obstructive uropathy is well-known. But, controversies still remain about the anatomic approach of this clinical feature. Our purpose is to elucidate the developmental anatomy of UPJ and eventually to set the steps of the anatomic approach of the UPJ abnormalities.

[The musculo-fascial graft from the elevator muscle of the anus. Importance for plastic surgery of the bladder in the treatment of obstetric vesico-vaginal fistulas].

The levator ano-muscle and fascia are studied by females pelvis. The muscle is composed of three groups of fibres: the puborectalis muscle, the ilococcygeus and the ischiococcygeus muscles. The muscular fascial graft is dissected from the superior fibers of puborectalis muscle and placed in front of the lateral face of the bladder.

[The left renal retro-aortic vein: report of three cases].

This study investigated the congenital retro-aortic left renal vein in three subjects, observed in dissection practice. Comparative morphometric analysis is made about vein and artery and their collaterals. The importance and the contribution of this left retro-aortic renal vein are discussed with reference to his embryologic and clinical aspect implication.

[Sinus node vascularization in the black African].

The aim of this study is to identify in 43 adults African hearts the different arteries of the sinus node. The method used is the injection corrosion technic of the coronary vessels. This study conclude that the right coronary system is the principal way of irrigation of sinus node in Africans (46.

[Venous vascularization of the heart in the African. Tributary veins of the coronary sinus].

This anatomic study realized on 40 African adults hearts, studies the veins related to the coronary sinus. By using injection of the coronary arteries and corrosion of the myocardium, this study discovers certain particularities of the small coronary vein and of the posterior descending interventricular vein in Africans.

[Scalp pediculosis in school environment in the city of Abidjan: prevalence and influence of socioeconomic conditions].

Hair samples from 2,209 children aged between 4 and 15 years were analyzed in March and April 1997 in an epidemiological study. We found that the prevalence of scalp pediculosis in schools in Abidjan was 18.51%.

Covered anus with anocutaneous fistula: the muscular sphincters.

A rare specimen of a covered anus with anocutaneous fistula obtained from a newborn female baby was subjected to macroexamination and microexamination to determine the anatomy of the sphincters and the levatores musculature. The internal sphincter and the deep voluntary sphincters, albeit slightly modified, were well developed but the sphincters in the perineum were absent or rudimentary. The pelvic muscles were present even in the absence of the sacrum up to and including the second sacral vertebra.

Supernumerary kidney.

We studied 58 case reports of patients with supernumerary kidneys to determine the morphology, vagaries and embryogenesis of this rare and poorly documented anomaly. The supernumerary kidney usually was located caudal to the ipsilateral kidney when subserved by a bifid ureter and cranially when the ureters were separate. The Weigert-Meyer law for duplex fused kidneys was obeyed by the supernumerary ureter in most fully documented cases of double ureters.