ABSTRACT
A study of relations between pruritus after doses of chloroquine and on the one hand the infection by Mansonella perstans (filariasis frequent in some areas but pathogenic) and on the other hand the infection by Onchocerca volvulus (filariasis frequent in some other areas but not very pathogenic) was carried out in two villages in Ivory Coast. It is not possible to show an obvious relation between the presence of pruritus and the two filariasis.
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Chloroquine/adverse effects , Filariasis/complications , Pruritus/etiology , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Child, Preschool , Cote d'Ivoire , Female , Humans , Male , Mansonelliasis/complications , Middle Aged , Onchocerciasis/complications , Pruritus/chemically inducedABSTRACT
A case-control study carried out in Yaounde (Cameroon) shows that the protective effect of BCG against pulmonary tuberculosis in the young adult was 66% (relative risk 0.34). This result is not affected by taking into account various factors such as sex, age, socio-economic class and geographical origin.
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BCG Vaccine , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/prevention & control , Adult , Cameroon , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Humans , RiskABSTRACT
A retrospective investigation was carried out in March 1984 on files of 447 tubercular patients traced in 1982 in the Unit of Pneumophthisiology of the Jamot Hospital in Yaounde. It demonstrates that: 80% of the patients have a pulmonary localization, 95% of the pulmonary tuberculosis are diagnosed by bacilloscopy often after a long latency, 60% of two-sided forms and 64% of forms with excavation, by radiological examination, 65% of the recorded patients live outside Yaounde, a one year standard treatment follow-up leads to 50% cures, 50% of the patients do not come back before six months and 50% after six months. The epidemiological findings done from this investigation lead to suggest adaptations of the fight-programme relevant to the bacilloscopic tracing, the curative protocols and the BCG vaccination.