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...

Background - Understanding the distribution of human papillomaviruses (HPV) detected in the cervix is crucial for assessing any changes in viral ecology associated with the introduction...

Surveillance of trends in Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) infections in France is conducted by a network of volunteer laboratories known as Rénachla. Since early 2000, there has been a steady...

Following the establishment of national and regional surveillance networks for healthcare-associated infections in the 1990s, European coordination was established between 2000 and 2008...

Introduction In 2008, the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) undertook an evaluation of the surveillance systems in which it participates, using a standardized common...

Introduction - Retrograde biliary catheterization is a procedure associated with a risk of infection. We report an outbreak caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae producing a CTX-M-15-type...