Monoclonal gammopathy of clinical significance in a young patient treated with melphalan-thalidomide-prednisone.

Key Clinical Message: We report an observation of a young patient presenting with severe type 1 cryoglobulinemic vasculitis revealing a monoclonal gammopathy of clinical significant. Treatment with Melphalan-Thalidomide Prednisone improved the symptoms. Early diagnosis would prevent serious tissue damage.

[Hemophagocytic syndrome secondary to cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis].

Hemophagocytic syndrome is due to the activation and nonmalignant proliferation of macrophages and T lymphocytes. The purpose of this report is to describe a 25-year-old man who presented with fever, coughing, and weight loss over the past month. Laboratory findings demonstrated pancytopenia, hyperferritinemia, and cytolysis.

[Difficulties in the diagnosis of a febrile exanthema of different etiologies in a tuberculous patient in Madagascar].

This article illustrates the difficulties in the treatment of tuberculosis through the case of a patient with tuberculosis presenting with a haemophagocytic syndrome, severe drug hypersensitivity and a dissemination of the disease. A month after tuberculosis chemotherapy was started, Mrs. R.

Exceptional diversity of mouse lemurs (Microcebus spp.) in the Makira region with the description of one new species.

Although the number of described lemur species has increased considerably over the last 20 years, detailed biogeographic data are still lacking from many geographic regions, in particular in the eastern part of Madagascar. This study investigated mouse lemur species diversity in a previously unstudied Inter-River-System in the eastern Makira region. Three sites were visited and 26 individuals were sampled and characterized with 13 external morphometric measurements.

Large rivers do not always act as species barriers for Lepilemur sp.

Sportive lemurs constitute a highly diverse endemic lemur family (24 species) for which many biogeographic boundaries are not yet clarified. Based on recent phylogeographic models, this study aims to determine the importance of two large rivers (the Antainambalana and Rantanabe) in northeastern Madagascar as species barriers for Lepilemur seali. The Antainambalana River was previously assumed to act as the southern border of its distribution.