Background: Twins constitute a vulnerable subpopulation among children under 5 years of age. In sub-Saharan Africa, it has been found that multiple births tend to be undernourished and the risks of acute malnutrition and stunting are high.Objective: Examining the relationship between acute malnutrition a...
Koné, D;
Koné, S;
Yapo, M T;
Touré, K H;
Koné, F;
Kouamé, K G R;
Karidioula, J M;
Acho, J K;
Yapa, G S K;
Kra, O;
Ouattara, B.
Objectif : déterminer les étiologies des fièvres prolongées inexpliquées au service de médecine interne du CHU de Bouaké. Matériel et méthodes : Il s’agissait d’une étude rétrospective à visée descriptive mené de janvier 2019 à décembre 2020. Nous avons inclus les patients hospitalisÃ...
Fever,
Fever of Unknown Origin,
Signs and Symptoms,
Arthritis, Rheumatoid,
Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic,
Prostatic Neoplasms,
Tuberculosis,
Neoplasms,
Scleroderma, Localized
Introduction. En décembre 2019, la population de Wuhan, une grande ville chinoise de 11 millions d’habitants, est atteinte par une pneumonie virale extrêmement contagieuse due au coronavirus SARSCoV-2. En Algérie, le premier cas a été identifié le 25 février 2020, un plan de riposte national él...
COVID-19,
Pandemics,
Epidemiology,
Mass Screening,
Fever,
Pneumonia, Viral,
Vision, Ocular,
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction,
Consultants
Altered mental status (AMS) is a priority presenting sign that must be assessed in HIV-infected, febrile children, yet diagnosis is difficult in areas with limited diagnostic capacity. Malaria and bacterial meningitis have been reported as the most common causes of AMS in febrile children presenting to t...
The emergence of COVID-19 by a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in 2019 has seen evolving data reporting infrequent infection in children and mostly mild disease for children who contract the infection. A severe form of COVID-19 in children recently reported in Europe and ...
Background: Malaria is the leading cause of death among children in Mozambique. Prevalence and factors associated with malaria are not well studied among children in rural Zambézia Province. Whether prevalence of malaria varies across diverse districts within the province is unknown. Methods: A cross...
Mozambique/epidemiology,
Diagnosis,
Education,
Socioeconomic Factors,
Malaria/epidemiology,
Prevalence,
Logistic Models,
Methods,
Blood,
Diagnostic Tests, Routine,
Fever,
Beds,
Cross-Sectional Studies
Abstract. Globally, approximately 5.9 million children under 5 years of age died in 2015, a reduction of over 50% since 1990. Millennium Development Goal 4 established the goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015. Multiple countries have surpassed this goal; however, regional and within-cou...
Child Health/statistics & numerical data,
Infant Mortality,
Sustainable Development/legislation & jurisprudence,
Fever/mortality,
Diarrhea, Infantile/mortality,
Respiratory Tract Diseases/mortality,
Child Health Services,
Mozambique,
Child Health Services/standards,
Child, Preschool,
Cross-Sectional Studies,
Forecasting,
Infant,
Logistic Models,
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/statistics & numerical data,
Rural Population/statistics & numerical data,
Socioeconomic Factors,
Surveys and Questionnaires
Background: Protection against clinical malaria episodes is acquired slowly after frequent exposure to malaria parasites. This is reflected by a decrease with increasing age in both parasite density and incidence of clinical episodes. In many settings of stable malaria transmission, the presence...
Malaria/epidemiology,
Temperature,
Sensitivity and Specificity,
Blood/diagnostic imaging,
Precautionary Principle,
Prevalence,
Plasmodium falciparum,
Parasites/genetics,
Microscopy,
Logistic Models,
Malaria/blood,
Confidence Intervals,
Surveys and Questionnaires/statistics & numerical data,
Infections,
Age Groups,
Fever/diagnosis,
Cost of Illness,
32511/methods,
Fingers/growth & development,
Mozambique
We estimated the incidence of clinical malaria episodes by weekly home-based active case detection between December 1996 and July 1999 in 2 groups of children in Manhiça district in southern Mozambique. Cohort 1 comprised a random sample of children aged <10 years at recruitment and cohort 2 comprised n...
