CHRONIC EOSINOPHILIC PNEUMONIA IN A BLACK -AFRICAN PATIENT

The authors report a case of a black African patient who suffers from a chronic eosinophilic pneumonia. In view of the lack of precise repor ting in the litterature of such a case in black Africans, the initial difficulty of strictly excluding a parasitologic etiology is discussed . From the comparison of paraclinical and clinical data with those of the litterature, the authors emphasize the close relationship between asthma and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia and the role of alveolar eos inophils in the physiopathology of that illness.