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A survey on 400 children less than five years old living in three villages of the sanitary district of Khombole has been realized from 17th to 25th April 1997 in order to evaluate the existence of malnutrition and the hazard factor linked to it. All children have been weighed and measured. The paraclinic assessment made up by a rate of haemoglobin and a parasitical test of the, motions have been realized on 275 children. The emaciation concerns 8% of the children and the statural backwardness 34.7% of them. The malnutrition is variable from one village to another. The percentage of children suffering from a severe malnutrition according to the classification of Gomez concerns 4.5%. Geophagy, intestinal parasitosis, and anaemia are closely related to chronic malnutrition. The results show the existence of a precarious nutritional situation in rural area requiring new policies of struggle against malnutrition.
Dakar Med 2000
PMID:[Protein-energy malnutrition in children less than five years old in a rural zone in Senegal (Khombole)]. 1466 91

Infection disease due to Listeria monocytogenes, which is a ubiquitous positive Gram bacillus to the essentially alimentary transmission, listeriosis happens on patients presenting an immunodeficiency. The authors report the two first cases of listeriosis diagnosed at Hopital Principal de Dakar. The first case was observed on a 73 years old man, hospitalised for a feverish coma scored at 9 using Glasgow scale, with neither meningitis syndrome, nor sign of neurological localisation. The analysis of the RLC reveals a hypercytosis at 126 GB/mm3, with prevailing neutrophile polynuclears, a hyperproteinorachia at 3.2 g/l. The culture of the RLC was sterile but the blood culture showed the presence of L. monocytogenes. The other paraclinical tests has revealed a glycaemia at 2.45 g/l, an imporant hepatic cytolisis with ASAT at 13 N and ALAT at 20 N. The patient was also presenting a cerebromeningitis and hepatic listeriosis on a diabetic field. The second case was observed on a 58 years old patient admitted for headaches, fever and an important degradation of the general state with an emaciation of 17 kg in 5 months. The physical screening revealed a bad general state, a fever at 38 degrees 2 and was without other particularity. The analysis of the RLC showed a hyperproteinorachia at 1.35 g/l with neither hypercytosis nor germ at the culture. Haemoculture isolated Listeria monocytogenes. HIV serology was positive. CD4 were counted to 61/mm3. and the viral charge was at 110.000 copies / mm3. The patient was presenting a Listeria monocytogenes at meningo-encephalitis on HIV-1 field. stade B of the CDC classification. This ubiquitous anthropozoonosis should be searched through early haemocultures before antibiotherapy. in case of long lasting fever, endocarditis, meningo-encephalitis, localised infections on children. pregnant women, diabetic persons, and people infected with HIV and some others presenting immunity troubles.
Dakar Med 2003
PMID:[Listeria disease. The first 2 cases reported at the Principal Hospital of Dakar]. 1577 52