title: [Morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases at the Military Hospital of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the proportion of infectious diseases and their lethality at the Abidjan Military Hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  This cross-sectional study examined the medical files of patients hospitalized in the internal medicine unit of the hospital during 2004.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The study included 668 patients with 855 diseases, 579 of them infectious (67.7%). The prevalence of HIV in this population was 41.3%. The main diseases observed were pneumonia (150 cases; 17.5%), malaria (82 cases; 9.6%), oropharyngeal candidiasis (83 cases; 9.7%), and tuberculosis (54 cases; 6.3%). The immediate causes of death were cerebral toxoplasmosis (27 cases; 39%), pneumopathy (25 cases; 36%), severe malaria (7 cases; 10%), tuberculosis (6 cases; 9%), and bacterial meningitis (5 cases; 7%). The prevalence of HIV infection prevalence among those who died of an infectious disease was 74.3%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Infectious diseases are the main pathologies seen in the internal medicine department of the in Abidjan Military Hospital. They were mainly opportunistic infections linked to AIDS. The creation of a laboratory of infectious microbiology and of a medical intensive care unit appears necessary to optimize management of these infectious diseases.
authors.affiliation: Service des maladies infectieuses et tropicales, CHU de Treichville, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. ouffouek@yahoo.com
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kra
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ouattara
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aba
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Kadjané
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kadjo
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authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bissagnéné
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authors.lastname: Kadio
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D007560:Cote d'Ivoire; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006772:Hospitals, Military; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult