Multidisciplinary Support To Access living donor Kidney Transplant (MuST AKT): A Clinical Research Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial to Increase Living Kidney Donation.

Background: Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is the optimal treatment for eligible patients with kidney failure, although it is underutilized. Contextually tailored patient- and family-centered interventions may be effective to increase LDKT.

Objective: We outline a protocol to test the feasibility of the Multidisciplinary Support To Access living donor Kidney Transplant (MuST AKT) intervention designed to increase LDKT.

Validation of an HPLC-MS/MS method with QuEChERS extraction using isotopic dilution to analyze chlordecone in human serum.

Until 1993, chlordecone (CLD) was extensively used in banana fields in French West Indies. In a previous study, CLD was detected in 90 % of Martinican and Guadeloupean adult's serum. In order to simplify the analyses of CLD in the serum, a new QuEChERS-HPLC-MS/MS method was implemented and validated by the Pasteur Institute of Guadeloupe (IPG).

The recent introduction of Angiostrongylus cantonensis and its intermediate host Achatina fulica into Guadeloupe detected by phylogenetic analyses.

Background: Angiostrongylus cantonensis (rat lungworm) is the main pathogen responsible for eosinophilic meningitis in humans. One of its intermediate snail hosts, Achatina fulica, was already present in many countries around the world before it appeared in the West Indies in the late 1980s. In the French territories in the Caribbean and northern South America, the first cases of human neuroangiostrongyliasis were reported in Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana in 2002, 2013 and 2017, respectively.

Draft genome sequence of Enterobacter chengduensis ECC445, isolated from fresh water in the West Indies.

Objectives: The Enterobacter cloacae complex is considered an important opportunistic pathogen. It comprises many members that remain difficult to delineate by phenotypic approaches. Despite its importance in human infection, there is a lack of information on associated members in other compartments.