Introduction - The cigarette pack is a marketing tool for the tobacco industry. To combat this phenomenon, the World Health Organization recommends the implementation of standardized...

The mandatory BCG vaccination requirement was suspended in July 2007 and replaced by a recommendation to vaccinate children at risk of tuberculosis. Furthermore, the intradermal...

The data presented pertain to cases of active tuberculosis reported in France during 2009. In 2009, 5,276 cases of active tuberculosis were reported, representing 8.2 per 100,000...

It is currently estimated that 2 to 3% of children born in France were conceived through assisted reproductive technology (ART). Monitoring these children in the short and medium term...

Many factors—including environmental pollutants, nutritional factors, and infectious agents—begin to influence children’s health as early as the prenatal and perinatal periods. The Elfe...

Background - Following a resurgence of syphilis in France in 2000, a surveillance system was established. Data collected over a 10-year period allow for the description of trends and...

Introduction - Analysis of surveillance data allows us to describe the epidemiology of gonococcal infections in France in terms of trends over time between 1996 and 2009, and to describe...

France is classified as a country with low endemicity for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, with an estimated HBsAg prevalence of 0.65% and an incidence of symptomatic acute hepatitis...

Introduction - Surveillance of rectal lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) provides an overview of trends in case numbers from its emergence in 2003 through the end of 2009 in France. Methods...