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153 well documented records, gathered in one year in a Tuberculosis Center, were studied. Adenoid localization represents on fourth of all tuberculosis, and 95% of all etiologies of peripheral adenopathies. Value of bacteriological tests is studied and compared to the one of histology. The almost sole presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis hominis is an uncommon datum, interesting in the field of epidemiology. The recorded outstanding efficacy of modern anti-tuberculosis drugs is less known, perhaps because of scarcity of recent works on such localizations. Some easy and reliable guidance is proposed within the context of a Communicable Diseases Program.

15 cases of human trypanosomiasis are reported. The patients did not travel previously through endemic areas, but all of them have stayed for a long duration in the Ouahigouya district lazaret. Never glossina were found in this district. This is suggesting a non conventional way of contamination, most likely mecanical transmission by hematophagous arthropodes. After COULM and FREZIL, the authors also raise the question of the importance of this possible mode of transmission in sleeping disease epidemiology.

The authors studied 198 strains of mycobacteriae from different sources, but mainly from bronchial secretion and adenoid pus or poundings. Because the preponderance of peripheral adenoid tuberculosis, we might fear a focus of Mycobacterium bovis. But this study gives leave to state positively that Mycobacterium tuberculosis hominis is almost exclusively the responsible and consequent by that there is an human reservoir almost exclusive. On the other hand, study of primary and secondary resistances to anti-bacillary drugs leads to express some concern particularly vis a vis modern treatments utilized as a matter of routine.