In this paper, alternate schemes are examined and analysed aiming at the improvement of MSW management in small urban municipalities in Morocco. These schemes are estimated by developing and applying the PROMETHEE method consisting in a multi-criteria analysis of the parameters and the constraints bound to the financial, technical, environmental and social-institutional aspects. Thus, 10 altern...

This study aims to investigate the content of lead in most frequently used brands of cosmetics products in Morocco.100 samples of kohl (kohl powder, galena, eye pencils and paste) were selected taken from large cosmetic stores in Morocco. And lead of them is analyzed using a Fast Sequential Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (SAAFS 240).The results showed that the concentrations of lead in kohl sam...

BACKGROUND In less than a decade, Morocco reportedly saw cannabis cultivation decrease by 65%, and hashish production is widely believed to have followed the same trend. Yet large anomalies exist between the alleged fall of hashish production in Morocco and international seizure data. While no explanation for such a discrepancy existed, the main hypothesis was that cannabis cultivation and hash...

We read with great interest the paper by Cheikh Rouhou et al., which was recently published online in TheScientificWorldJOURNAL[1]. In this article, the authors report a new case of pulmonary and vertebral blastomycosis from Tunisia. They found that the probable reservoir of Blastomyces dermatitidis is the soil. Blastomycosis is considered a rare and sporadic disease in Africa, unlike in some e...

H e a l t h C o n d i t i o n : In 1992, a national survey found that just over 5 percent of Morocco’s population had the blinding disease trachoma. Nearly all the cases were concentrated in five poor, rural provinces in the southeast of the country where 25,000 people showed a serious decline in vision due to trachoma, 625,000 needed treatment for inflammatory trachoma, and 40,000 urgently nee...

This paper analyses the two agreements in force on social security coordination between Germany and Morocco: Agreement Social Security from 25 March 1981 (quoted as “SSA Morocco”), Child Benefits also form of Supplementary 22 November 1991 “CBA Morocco”).

The present study aims to determine the main characteristics of ophidian envenomation in the Souss-Massa-Drâa region in Morocco. It consisted of a descriptive retrospective analysis of all snakebite cases recorded by the Moroccan Poison Control and Pharmacovigilance Center, from 1980 to 2008. According to reported data, this region is the most affected in Morocco with 479 cases, that is 27.6% (...

Here, we describe the annotated genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis MTB13_M. The organism was isolated from a sputum sample in Morocco.

West Nile virus-associated disease is one of the most widespread vector-borne diseases in the world. In Morocco, the first cases were reported in horses in 1996 and the disease re-emerged in 2003 and in 2010. The objective of this work was to study the epidemiological situation of WNV-associated infection in Morocco, by quantifying the seroprevalence of anti-WNV IgM and IgG antibodies in horses...

BACKGROUND Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer morbidity and mortality. Its management has a significant economic impact on society. Despite a high incidence of cancer, so far, there is no national register for this disease in Morocco. The main goal of this report was to estimate the medical costs of lung cancer in our country. METHODS We first estimated the number of annual new cases ...