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%...

HIV/AIDS surveillance at the European level began in 1984 with the creation of the European Centre for the Epidemiological Surveillance of AIDS (EuroHIV) and the reporting of AIDS cases...

Assuming a reduction in the risk of viral transmission, the first official recommendations on antiretroviral prophylaxis following occupational HIV exposure among healthcare workers were...

Leptospirosis, an acute infectious disease caused by a spirochete of the genus Leptospira following a 10-day incubation period, has not been a reportable disease since 1986. Current...

In November 2000, the National Legionella Reference Center (CNR) identified seven strains of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 that had been submitted by the bacteriology laboratory at...

Since 1987, the surveillance of Legionnaires' disease in France has been based on a mandatory reporting system. Enhanced collaboration with the Legionella Reference Center (CNR)...

In mid-July 2001, the Rhône Departmental Directorate of Health and Social Affairs (DDASS) was alerted by the successive reporting of three cases of Legionnaires’ disease among...