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In some instances, patients may present with atypical clinical symptoms requiring surgical resections for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes. In such circumstances, pathology (histopathology) remains a valuable diagnostic tool. Our aim is to report histopathological features of infectious diseases diagnosed at our pathology laboratory.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This is a retrospective study including infectious diseases histologically diagnosed at our pathology laboratory over a period of about 4 years. The histopathological diagnosis was performed on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded and hematoxylin and eosin-stained specimens.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Over the period of our study, we registered 193 patients with infectious diseases with a mean age of 35.6 years \u00b1 17.1 (range of 2-77 years). In 82 patients out of 182, the clinical diagnosis was suspicious for malignancy. The definitive histopathological diagnoses were: tuberculosis (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u2009139), schistosomiasis (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200930), mycetoma (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200915), echinococcosis (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20093), onchocerciasis (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20092), aspergillosis (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20092), and mucormycosis (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20092). Lesions of tuberculosis were mainly extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, as only 8 lesions of 139 were pulmonary tuberculosis. The 3 main locations of tuberculosis were lymph nodes (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200938), pleura (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200932), and digestive system (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200928). Schistosomiasis (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200930) was the second most frequent infectious disease, with 12 patients that had extra-urinary locations. All lesions of mycetoma were located on the feet (4 patients with actinomycetoma and 11 with eumycetoma).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In tropical countries, pathologists are usually requested in the diagnosis of various infectious diseases as patients present often with clinical suspicion of malignancy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/10668969261437121","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,16]],"date-time":"2026-04-16T14:12:03Z","timestamp":1776348723000},"page":"1509-1519","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Histopathological Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: Experience From a Tertiary Care Center in a Sub-Saharan African Country"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"34","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8623-4005","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Efared","family":"Boubacar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Universit\u00e9 Abdou Moumouni"},{"name":"Laboratoire d\u2019anatomie et cytologie pathologiques, H\u00f4pital National de Niamey, Niamey, Niger"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Abani Bako A\u00efchatou","family":"Balaraba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universit\u00e9 Abdou Moumouni"},{"name":"Laboratoire d\u2019anatomie et cytologie pathologiques, H\u00f4pital G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de R\u00e9f\u00e9rence, Niamey, Niger"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Boubacar","family":"Idrissa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire d\u2019anatomie et cytologie pathologiques, H\u00f4pital National de Niamey, Niamey, Niger"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Salifou Boureima","family":"Habiba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire d\u2019anatomie et cytologie pathologiques, H\u00f4pital G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de R\u00e9f\u00e9rence, Niamey, Niger"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Douma Hamidou","family":"Zourkafili","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratoire d\u2019anatomie et cytologie pathologiques, H\u00f4pital National de Niamey, Niamey, Niger"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nouhou","family":"Hassan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universit\u00e9 Abdou Moumouni"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S2214-109X(19)30488-7"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S1473-3099(24)00158-0"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_4_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1309\/MLUFX0HR5B96GVAX"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_5_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00428-017-2082-6"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_6_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/femspd\/ftaa026"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_7_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4103\/0255-0857.49423"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_8_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/cid\/ciu469"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_9_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0243945"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_10_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/00313020701816357"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_11_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0049475517704612"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_12_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.modpat.2023.100168"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_13_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.mycmed.2022.101333"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_14_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjgh-2020-003248"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_15_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tmaid.2017.10.003"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_16_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s12907-017-0040-5"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_17_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0049475518770574"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_18_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rmed.2024.107601"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_19_2","article-title":"Revisiting the utility of histopathological examination of biopsy: a necessity in microbiology","volume":"11","author":"Roy P","year":"2017","unstructured":"Roy P, Das S, Sharma S, et al. 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