Mucosal Leishmania infantum leishmaniasis: specific pattern in a multicentre survey and historical cases.

Objective: Leishmania infantum mucosally restricted leishmaniasis was rarely reported, so that diagnostic and treatment strategies remain debated. A long-term multicentric survey appeared thereby necessary.

Methods: Cases were prospectively collected over 12 years in 3 academic hospitals of Southern France.

Chikungunya infection: an emerging rheumatism among travelers returned from Indian Ocean islands. Report of 47 cases.

A large chikungunya virus (CHIKV) outbreak emerged in 2005-2006 in the Indian Ocean islands, including Comoros, Mayotte, Mauritius, the Seychelles, and particularly in Reunion Island where 35% of 770,000 inhabitants were infected in 6 months. More recently, circulation of the virus has been documented in Madagascar and in India where CHIKV is spreading rapidly. CHIKV-infected visitors have returned home to nonendemic regions from these islands.