The frequency of Campylobacter infections in humans, their potential severity, and the availability of preventive measures justify surveillance. In France, a surveillance system for...

In late September 2004, a general practitioner in southwestern France reported several cases of hepatitis A that had occurred since July 1 in several neighboring municipalities, all of...

Tularemia has been listed as a notifiable disease since October 2002. The objective of mandatory reporting is to monitor trends in incidence, describe the clinical and epidemiological...

Healthcare-associated infections are more common in intensive care units than in other areas of care due to the critical condition of patients and the invasive nature of life-support...

The results of the French organized breast cancer screening program are presented according to the old guidelines for 2001 and 2002 and according to the new guidelines for 2002. Compared...

The purpose of this report is to present the 2005 version of the heat wave and health alert system. The system remains based on the same principles that were in place during its first...

This report presents the national results from the second year of surveillance of nosocomial bacteremia in France. In 2003, 137 healthcare facilities participated in the French...

Under the auspices of the Network for Alert, Investigation, and Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections (Raisin) and in collaboration with the Study Group on Healthcare Workers’ Risk of...

In January 2003, mandatory reporting of HIV infection was introduced in France to supplement the information provided by the AIDS surveillance system that had been in place since 1982....

This report provides an overview of the various serological tests available for syphilis and outlines the serological profile according to the stages of the disease.