As climate change is growing, water security becomes an urgent challenge in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), most scarce region world (World Bank, 2018; UN Water, 2020). Algeria one of these countries under large stresses (Kwasi & Cilliers, The stress index poor with a availability ratio 411 m3/cap/year. Forecasts estimate value 300 m3/cap/year 2050 (Falkenmark et al., 1989; Kherbac...

This article identifies Algeria as a significant, if obscure, topos in Arendt's writing. It traces various moments of this encounter across oeuvre , well-known texts, such The Origins Totalitarianism (1951) and “On Violence” (1969), well lesser-known writings, “Why the Crémieux Decree Was Abrogated” (1943). In pursuing trajectory, argues that sustained engagement with reflects an ongoing ambiva...

Introduction In a developing country like Algeria, such expensive therapy is not available. Alternative approaches are needed to help these adult. In Algeria 'imatib' (CIPLA-India) was introduced in 2006; but no study has been published yet in the North Africa region regarding response and outcome of this copy in CML patients. The goal of this multicenter study is to characterize newly adult CM...

CONTEXT Little is known about the impact of trauma in postconflict, low-income countries where people have survived multiple traumatic experiences. OBJECTIVE To establish the prevalence rates of and risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 4 postconflict, low-income countries. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Epidemiological survey conducted between 1997 and 1999 among surv...

Hb D-Ouled Rabah [beta19(B1)Asn>Lys] is a rare hemoglobin (Hb) beta chain variant reported from Tuareg tribes in Algeria and once from China. It was suggested that Hb D-Ouled Rabah might be specific of Berber-speaking populations. Our report describes the first observation of this hemoglobin variant in the Turkish population.

Here, we report the first autochthonous cases of infections caused by blaNDM-5 New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli strains recovered from urine and blood specimens of three patients from Algeria between January 2012 and February 2013. The three isolates belong to sequence type 2659 and they coexpress blaCTX-M-15 with the blaTEM-1 and blaaadA2 genes.

Enterococcus hirae is a zoonotic pathogen rarely isolated from human infections. This case is the first description of E. hirae causing urinary tract infection in a diabetic man with benign prostatic hyperplasia from Algeria. The clinical isolate was identified by MALDI-TOF MS and displayed a multisensitivity antibiotic profile.

Forty-five Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-positive, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains were isolated in Algeria between 2003 and 2004; 18 isolates were isolated in the community and 27 in a hospital. Five PVL-positive hospital isolates were resistant to multiple antibiotics, including ofloxacin and gentamicin for three isolates.

The waterdistilled essential oil from dried aerial parts of one of the Algerian thymes, Thymus fontanesii Boiss. & Reut. grown in Setif province, Algeria, was analyzed by GC/MS. Fifteen components were characterized representing 99.4% of the total components detected. The major components of the oil were thymol (67.8%), gamma-terpinene (15.9%) and p-cymene (13.0%).

Following the publication of a paper on Conjonctival human myiasis by Oestrus ovis in southern Tunisia by Anane and Ben Hssine (Bull Soc Pathol Exot (2010) 103(5):299-304), the author reminds that the discovery of this disease was made in Algeria, in 1907 by Edmond and Etienne Sergent.