| [an epidemiological study of purulent meningitis cases admitted to hospital in dakar, 1970-1979]. | | 1981 | 6976227 |
| hospital surveillance of childhood bacterial meningitis in senegal and the introduction of haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine. | bacterial meningitis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children living in low-resource settings. pediatric bacterial meningitis cases < 5 years of age were identified through a regional hospital surveillance system for 3 years after introduction of routine immunization with haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) conjugate vaccine in senegal in july 2005. cases from the national pediatric hospital were also tracked from 2002 to 2008. the regional surveillance system recorded 1,711 ... | 2010 | 21118944 |
| prospective cohort study of disabling sequelae and quality of life in children with bacterial meningitis in urban senegal. | no studies have prospectively examined disabling sequelae and quality of life in children with bacterial meningitis in sub-saharan africa. | 2010 | 20517172 |
| the elimination of haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis following conjugate vaccine introduction in senegal. | senegal introduced routine infant haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) conjugate vaccine during 2005. | 2010 | 20042917 |
| antimicrobial susceptibility of select respiratory tract pathogens in dakar, senegal. | haemophilus influenzae, moraxella catarrhalis, streptococcus pyogenes, and streptococcus pneumoniae are the most common causative agents of respiratory tract infections (rtis). the increase in resistance to current antibacterial agents highlights the need to monitor the resistance pattern of these bacterial pathogens. | 2009 | 19858566 |
| [pédiatric haemophilus influenzae b meningitis in dakar]. | this study had for aim to determine the etiology of haemophilus b pediatric meningitis. | 2007 | 17629648 |
| [clinical, bacteriological and therapeutic aspects of meningococcal meningitis in dakar in 1999]. | two major outbreaks of meningitis due neisseria meningitidis serogroup a occurred in senegal in 1998 and 1999. the purpose of this report is to describe clinical, bacteriological and therapeutic findings in 70 patients admitted for cerebrospinal meningitis to the infectious disease clinic at the fann university teaching hospital in dakar in 1999. diagnosis was based on direct microscopic examination after gram staining in 71% of the cases, culture in 76%, and detection of soluble antigens in cer ... | 2002 | 12192708 |
| [sickle cell disease in children in dakar, senegal]. | to determine the socioeconomic, clinical and biological aspects of sickle cell disease (scd) in senegalese children and adolescents, we retrospectively analysed all records of follow-up attending patients in the albert royer children hospital of dakar (senegal). | 2000 | 10668081 |
| etiology of genital ulcer disease in dakar, senegal, and comparison of pcr and serologic assays for detection of haemophilus ducreyi. | we used pcr assays to determine the etiology of genital ulcers in patients presenting to a sexually transmitted disease clinic in dakar, senegal, and evaluated the ability of two pcr tests (groel and recd) and two serological tests (adsorption enzyme immunoassay [eia] and lipooligosaccharide [los] eia) to detect current haemophilus ducreyi infection. we found that in this population, h. ducreyi, t. pallidum, and herpes simplex virus hsv dna were detected in 56, 15, and 13% of 39 genital ulcer sp ... | 2000 | 10618099 |
| sexually transmitted diseases and risk of hiv infection in men attending a sexually transmitted diseases clinic in dakar, senegal. | this cross-sectional study was carried out among male outpatients with symptoms of stds at the std reference centre at the institute of social hygiene (ihs), dakar, senegal, from march 1989 through may 1991. this study was used to determine the prevalence of stds and hiv among male patients attending an std clinic and to identify their socio-demographic characteristics and risk factors. a total of 975 patients were enrolled in the study. the most common syndromes were urethritis (76%) and genita ... | 1997 | 10214412 |
| [epidemiology and prognosis of haemophilus influenzae meningitis in africa (901 cases)]. | haemophilus influenzae meningitis are frequent in africa in infants between 6 months and two years of age. type b is observed in 97% of cases. in dakar, 2% of strains are resistant to ampicillin and 0% to chloramphenicol. lethality is about 30% and sequellae are very frequent. prognosis can be predicted by a cotation scale including consciousness, tonus, seizures, nutritional status, delay before treatment and initial bacterial antigen level in csf. | 1983 | 6341941 |
| [epidemiologic aspects of purulent meningitis in tropical africa (1052 cases observed in dakar)]. | | 1972 | 4659285 |
| [bacterial meningitis in a pediatric hospital in a tropical zone]. | purulent bacterial meningitides are a very important pediatric problem in tropical areas. from february 1983 to february 1988, 409 cerebrospinal fluid samples from children with purulent meningitides, aged under 15 years, admitted to the pediatric hospital albert royer, dakar, were examined for the presence of bacterial agents. in 222 (54.2%) samples, one bacterial agent or soluble antigens were detected. among these, 3 bacterial agents were most frequently identified: 94 (42.3%) haemophilus inf ... | 1989 | 2811653 |
| [bacteriological study of endemo-sporadic meningitis at the fann c.h.u. in dakar (1974-1976)]. | | 1977 | 597973 |