MARTY , P.

No description

This review emphasises the particular difficulties encountered in confirming a suspected case of cutaneous or visceral leishmaniasis when that case is co-infected with HIV. HIV infection appears to have a more profound impact on the development of visceral leishmaniasis than on the evolution of the purely cutaneous disease. The various...

The prenatal diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis is currently based upon molecular biology using a sample of amniotic fluid. The vast majority of centres globally (and all centres in France) performing this diagnosis use 'in house' or laboratory-developed PCR assays. This may be the source of considerable inter-laboratory variation in the...

International audience

International audience

L'épidémiologie de la leishmaniose cutanée (LC) à Leishmania major est peu documentée au Mali. Suite à un signalement de LC dans le pays dogon, une équipe bioclinique franco-malienne a été mise en place pour une étude de terrain du 16 au 27 janvier 2010. La population de cinq villages a été examinée et une sélection de cas a été effectuée par...

Buruli ulcer is a tropical skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. Its mode of transmission is not yet clearly understood. We report here a cutaneous ulcer in a European traveler in South America resulting from a coinfection detected specifically for Mycobacterium ulcerans and Leishmania braziliensis DNA with real-time polymerase chain...

National audience