[A furoncular ankle cellulitis in a teenager with a difference: Dermatobia hominis]. / Un passager clandestin à ne pas méconnaître: Dermatobia hominis, à propos d'un cas.

We report a case of botfly myiasis presenting as an ankle cellulitis in a teenager returning from Guyana. Main clinical features and therapeutic approaches are described.

[Hurler syndrome. Early diagnosis and successful enzyme replacement therapy: a new therapeutic approach. Case report]. / Mucopolysaccharidose de type I: intérêt d'un diagnostic et d'une enzymothérapie substitutive précoces. A propos d'un cas.

Mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I) is a lysosomal storage disorder due to alpha-L-iduronidase deficiency. Its severe prognosis has been significantly improved by enzyme replacement therapy using recombinant human alpha-L-iduronidase (laronidase). We report the case of a boy who was diagnosed at 19 months of age with Hurler's disease, the most severe form of MPS I, and received thereafter a treatment by laronidase, resulting in clinical and biological improvement. The aim of this case report is to draw physicians' attention on the presenting signs of Hurler's disease, in order to enable an earlier diagnosis, increasing the treatment's benefits.

[Macrolides, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and cystic fibrosis]. / Macrolides, Pseudomonas aeruginosa et mucoviscidose: concepts actuels.

Long-term low dose azithromycin treatment in cystic fibrosis patients with chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection is safe and reduces the decline in lung function, the number of acute exacerbations and improves nutritional status; underlying efficacy mechanisms are multiple and synergistic.

[Varicella, acute postinfectious arteriopathy and cerebral arterial thrombosis in childhood: a unique clinical and etiologic framework to be fully acknowledged]. / Varicelle, artériopathie aiguë post-infectieuse et infarctus cérébral artériel de l'enfant: un cadre clinique et étiologique à ne pas méconnaître.

Acute arteriopathies are the etiological factor of 25% of all the cerebral arterial thrombosis cases in childhood; they give way to ischemic strokes which have specific clinical and radiological features; varicella is the etiologic factor in 60% of the cases; favorable outcome is the rule; physiopathology and treatment remain under discussion.