Airport malaria: report of four cases in Tunisia.

Four cases of airport malaria were notified for the first time in Tunisia during the summer of 2013. All patients were neighbours living within 2 km of Tunis International Airport. They had no history of travel to malarious countries, of blood transfusion or of intravenous drug use.

[Upper urinary tract infections in adults: about 261 episodes].

Background: Upper urinary tract infections are frequent. Escherichia coli is the main pathogen identified from community acquired infections.

Aim: We aim to study epidemiologic, clinical and bacterial features of this infection.

Mucormycosis: four case reports.

Introduction: Mucormycosis is a rare and invasive fungal infection, but frequently fatal when it occurs. It commonly affects patients with diabetes mellitus. The aim of this study is to assess the clinical presentation, radiological findings, management and prognosis of mucormycosis.

[Melitococcal psoas abscesses: study of three cases and review of the literature].

Vertebral involvement is a common complication of brucellosis in adults. However psoas abscess related to brucellar spondylitis have rarely reported. The purpose of this report is to describe three cases of bilateral psoas abscess identified during workup for brucellar spondylitis.

Tuberculous meningitis in adults: MRI contribution to the diagnosis in 29 patients.

Objectives: Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a life-threatening disease and is difficult to diagnose. We aim to promote the role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in TBM diagnosis and survey.

Design And Methods: This was a retrospective study undertaken between 1996 and 2003 in which we reviewed all cases of TBM that had undergone cerebral computed tomography (CT) and MRI performed with and without contrast.

[Toxocariasis: under-estimated disease. Report of 9 cases].

Toxocariasis or visceral larva migrans is a parasitosis due to the migration in the human organism of animal ascarid larvae. Its importance is under-estimated and the reported tunisian cases are rare. We report nine cases of toxocariasis, noted between January of 2000 to March of 2002, in the laboratory of parasitology-mycology in La Rabta Hospital.

[Effect of triple antiretroviral therapy on Tunisian AIDS profile: study of 139 cases].

We report a retrospective study to estimate highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) effect in 139 HIV infected patients. Four criteria are studied: prevalence of opportunistic infections, CD4 cell count evolution, viral load progression and mortality. Gastrointestinal side effects are the most common clinical adverse reaction (61.

[Bacterial infections in AIDS (mycobacterial infections excluded): study of 100 cases].

We report a retrospective study of 106 patients with bacterial infections from 322 patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) resulting in 33 percent. Epidemiological profile of bacterial infection in HIV patient is the same that observed in tunisian patient with HIV: a young male infected mainly by sexual route. Bacterial infection is located in the lungs in 38.

[Neuroradiologic manifestations of central nervous system tuberculosis in 122 adults].

Purpose: Central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis remains a public health problem, particularly in developing countries. The aim of this study is to characterize neuroradiologic findings of various intracranial lesions.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed data of 122 patients with CNS tuberculosis, without immunosuppression.

[AIDS in Tunisian women. Study of 92 cases].

The authors report a retrospective study about 92 cases of HIV-1 infections among adult tunisian women hospitalised or consulting in the department of infectious diseases at Rabta hospital over a period of 15 years and 6 months. The middle age is 33.2 years.

[Bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: study of 17 cases].

Aspergillosis is a fungic infection depending on the local or general physiologic and immunologic state of the host. We report the result of retrospective five year study (1995-1999) about 17 cases in the laboratory of Parasitology-Mycology of Rabta hospital in Tunis. Six aspergillomas were observed, they occurred after a pulmonary tuberculosis, two cases of allergic broncho-pulmonary aspergillosis described in two asthmatic patients, nine cases of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis complicating two cancers, one leukaemia, six chronic granulomatous disease.

[Tuberculosis, primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmunity (apropos of a case in Tunisia)].

We report the case of a 70 year-old Tunisian patient who developed antimitochondrial antibodies and anti-ADN during urogenital tuberculosis with clinical and biological signs of primary biliary cirrhosis and systemic lupus erythematosus. We discuss the association of the three diseases and the etiopathogeny of the autoimmune mechanisms induced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

[Bacterial spondylodiskitis: pyogenic or tuberculous?].

We retrospectively studied the epidemiological, clinical, radiological and evolutive aspects of bacterial spondylodiskitis observed in 39 patients diagnosed from January 1989 to December 1998, in order to find criteria to distinguish between pyogenic spondylodiskitis (PS) and tuberculous spondylodiskitis (TS). During the study period, we collected 13 patients (33.3%) with PS and 26 patients (66.

[Cerebral miliary tuberculosis. Apropos of 5 cases and review of the literature].

The authors report 5 cases of cerebral miliary tuberculosis studied by computerized tomography and review 5 cases of the literature. Computerized tomography can see very small tuberculomas, of several millimeters. Chest miliary tuberculosis is found in all their cases, and 3 of the 5 cases of the other authors.