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Monitoring of eye complications related to the total solar eclipse of August 11, 1999
At the request of the Directorate General for Health, the Institute for Health Surveillance has established a monitoring system for eye complications that may have occurred following the...
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Suspected cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other subacute transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in humans in 1996 and 1997
Since September 19, 1996, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and other human subacute spongiform encephalopathies (SSEs), regardless of their cause, have been included on the list of...
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Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis infection at a family planning and reproductive health center in Bordeaux, France, 2005.
Objective - To estimate the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection among women seeking care at a family planning center (CPEF) and a reproductive health center at the Bordeaux...
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Editorial. Routine screening for Chlamydia trachomatis infections: It’s time to act.
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Deaths of French nationals while abroad and their causes.
Monitoring the impact of trips abroad on the health of the French population represents a new dimension of health surveillance. Today, every year, more than 20% of the adult French...
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Health Impact of the 2003 Summer Heat Wave: Summary of Studies Available as of August 2005.
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview, two years after the heat wave, of the main studies conducted in France in the wake of this tragic event, their findings, and the...
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Cases of tuberculosis reported in France in 2004
Tuberculosis is a preventable infectious disease whose impact on public health is growing worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that if the disease is not brought under...
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Salmonella enterica serotype Agona outbreak linked to the consumption of infant formula, France, January–May 2005
Introduction. In late February 2005, the National Reference Center for Salmonella reported an increase in the number of Salmonella serotype Agona isolates from infants in France during...
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Invasive meningococcal infections in France in 2005
In France, epidemiological surveillance of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is based on the analysis of reporting and mandatory reporting (MR) data, supplemented by microbiological...
