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Purple urine-bag syndrome is a rare condition that occurs in patients with indwelling urinary catheters carried over a long period and frequently associated with a urinary tract infection. It is characterized by the appearance of a violet coloration of the probe and/or the urine collection bag. We report the first case in West Africa that occurred in a 47-year-old woman in uremic encephalopathy and carrier of a urinary catheter, which presented a violet color of the tubing and urine-bag associated with a urinary tract infection. The outcome was favorable under antibiotic therapy. Many patients benefit from the installation of urinary catheters for various reasons and the occurrence of this syndrome should lead the medical team to systematically seek an underlying urinary tract infection to avoid if possible paraclinical assessments generally costly to our patients without medical coverage in our developing countries.

Infectious diseases are frequent in chronic dialysis patients. Our study had for objective to describe the prevalence and the clinical presentation of tuberculosis in the chronic dialysis patient. This observational study was conducted over a period of 21 months in chronically hemodialyzed patients.Among 118 patients chronically dialysed and during the study period, seven (5.9%) presented tuberculosis. An average lag time of 13,7 months was observed between the beginning of the dialysis and the appearance of the signs of tuberculosis, and of 10,4 weeks between the first signs and the beginning of treatment. Extrapulmonary localization was observed in six cases among seven peritoneal involvements.Extrapulmonary localisation is a characteristic of tuberculosis in the chronic dialysis patients. Systematic screening of tuberculosis is recommended in order to start chemotherapy without any delay.