[Epilepsy and employment: a multicentric study of 55 epileptics employed in the public and private sectors in Abidjan].

Unlabelled: GOAL AND STUDY TYPE: to favour access and job conservation for the epileptic's patients, a descriptive and transversal study of word conditions of epileptic's workers have been driven for June to December 2005 at Abidjan.

Material And Method: study population was constituted of 55 epileptics who are regularly followed and diagnose patients during study period. They did a fixed professional activity employee and old than 15 years.

The associations between cervicovaginal HIV shedding, sexually transmitted diseases and immunosuppression in female sex workers in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

Objective: To measure the frequency and associated factors of cervicovaginal HIV shedding and to determine the impact of sexually transmitted disease (STD) treatment on HIV shedding.

Design: Cross-sectional study with 1-week follow-up.

Setting: Confidential clinic for female sex workers in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

Genital ulcers associated with human immunodeficiency virus-related immunosuppression in female sex workers in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

A cross-sectional study among female sex workers in Abidjan was conducted to study the association between sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and HIV-related immunosuppression. Among 1209 women tested for HIV, 962 (80%) were seropositive. HIV infection was independently associated with a longer duration of sex work, a lower price for intercourse, being an immigrant, and having a positive Treponema pallidum hemagglutination test (P < .

Dual seroreactivity to HIV-1 and HIV-2 in female sex workers in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

Objective: To determine the absolute and proportional prevalence of dual seroreactivity to HIV-1 and HIV-2 in female sex workers in Abidjan, to determine risk determinants for this serologic profile, and to describe the associated clinical and immunological characteristics.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Confidential clinic for female sex workers in Abidjan.

HIV status of female sex partners of men reactive to HIV-1, HIV-2 or both viruses in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

Objectives: To compare rates of serologic concordance in the female sex partners of men with HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections, and to determine the serologic status of sex partners of men who reacted serologically to both viruses.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Infectious diseases service in a University Hospital in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (West Africa).

The mortality and pathology of HIV infection in a west African city.

Background: HIV disease is epidemic in Africa, but associated mortality, underlying pathology and CD4+ T-lymphocyte counts have not previously been evaluated in a representative study. Such data help to determine the management of HIV-positive people. Both HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections are prevalent in Côte d'Ivoire, and the pathology of HIV-2 infection in Africa is unclear.

Pathogens and predictors of fatal septicemia associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection in Ivory Coast, west Africa.

In East Africa, bacteremia is more common in hospitalized human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1-positive than -negative patients. In 1991, blood cultures and clinical and laboratory data were obtained from 319 patients in Ivory Coast, where both HIV-1 and -2 infections occur. Forty-three bacterial, 10 mycobacterial, and 8 fungal pathogens were isolated from blood of 54 patients (17%).