France’s HIV testing policy is based on personal responsibility and voluntary testing. Anonymous and free HIV testing clinics (CDAG) were established in 1988 in every department, within...

This editorial addresses human salmonellosis. These cases occur as sporadic infections, foodborne illness outbreaks, or community-wide epidemics. For certain serotypes, particularly...

On December 2, 1998, the National Public Health Network (RNSP) was informed by the National Reference Center for Salmonella and Shigella (CNRSS) of an increase, during the first half of...

A survey conducted among the Member States of the European Union and Norway shows that, as of December 2000, only two of them did not have a national surveillance system for...

In the introduction, the authors describe the procedures and quality of the surveillance systems for outbreaks of foodborne illness in France. In 2001, 483 reports of foodborne illness...

As part of its surveillance and investigation mandate, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) is frequently asked to provide guidance on how to respond to outbreaks...

Surveillance of occupational exposures among healthcare workers in France was established, using both retrospective and prospective methods, in 1991 for the human immunodeficiency virus...

Natural resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antituberculosis drugs is rare. Drug resistance results primarily from inappropriate treatment. Resistance to antituberculosis drugs,...

Tetanus is an acute infection caused by exotoxins produced by a Gram-positive anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium tetani. The vaccine to prevent this disease, which is virtually 100%...