In France a harm-reduction policy was implemented in the late 1980s with the aim of reducing the prevalence of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among drug users. The...

Background: Facts and hypotheses on the relationship between some children's diseases or disorders and external stressors during the developmental stage of a child, both prenatally and...

Mainland France is considered as a low endemicity area for hepatitis B, but the French Caribbean and Pacific territories are classified into areas of intermediate and high endemicity. In...

To assess the performance of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing and colposcopy in detection of cervical pathology. A series of 389 women referred for colposcopy due to an abnormal Pap...

La coqueluche est une maladie respiratoire très contagieuse, grave chez le nouveau-né non vacciné. Objectifs. Investigation de cinq cas groupés de coqueluche parmi le personnel du...

A feasibility study on standardized subtyping of Listeria monocytogenes by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was performed in 2003 in Europe. The aim of the project was to identify...

We evaluated the French Azay-Mycobacteria network for surveillance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance by matching data with those collected through the mandatory notification...

We describe an outbreak of pneumonia due to Streptococcus pneumoniae in a French retirement home. Eleven residents developed pneumonia. Eight patients had positive results of urinary...

We evaluated the discriminative power and usefulness of the DNA array technology as compared to DNA macrorestriction pattern analysis for monitoring epidemiologically related clusters of...