[A furoncular ankle cellulitis in a teenager with a difference: Dermatobia hominis]

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.

[Macrolides, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and cystic fibrosis]

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.

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.