Since April 1998, the hospital administration has conducted a quarterly survey on treatments for chronic hepatitis C initiated in approximately 100 hospital departments with significant...

Several recent epidemiological studies have demonstrated that urban air pollution has short-term effects on both mortality and morbidity, even at current ambient pollution levels. These...

Surveillance of Legionnaires' disease in France is primarily based on a mandatory reporting system. The system, which has been in place since 1987, was improved through various measures...

On April 6, 2000, the National Reference Center for Meningococci (C.N.R.M.) alerted the DGS to the occurrence in France of two cases of meningococcal infection of serogroup W135 among...

The RENARUB network, established in 1976, is the primary source of information on the epidemiological situation regarding rubella infections acquired during pregnancy and cases of...

For more than thirty years, vancomycin has been considered the antibiotic of choice for treating methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. However, MRSA strains with...

Non-cholera vibrios (NCV) that are potentially pathogenic to humans include the non-O1 and non-O139 serogroups of the species Vibrio cholerae and 10 other species of the genus Vibrio (V....

In France, surveillance of listeriosis is carried out by the National Reference Center for Listeria (CNR, Institut Pasteur, Paris), which collects and characterizes Listeria...

The history of pertussis in European countries has clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of pertussis vaccination in reducing the incidence of the disease. In some countries, whole-cell...