Introduction - An outbreak of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) occurs every winter in France and accounts for 700,000 to 3.7 million visits to primary care physicians. Here we present an...

Between 2006 and 2008, 3,127 outbreaks of foodborne illness were reported to health authorities in France. These outbreaks affected 33,404 people, of whom 2,302 were hospitalized and 15...

Introduction - For more than twenty years, the annual incidence rate of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in France has ranged between 1 and 2 cases per 105 inhabitants. Methods -...

Since 2006, surveillance data have shown a decline in the incidence of Legionnaires' disease in France. This trend was confirmed in 2009, with 1,206 cases reported, corresponding to an...

Since 1996, the Renacoq network has tracked pertussis cases identified in pediatric hospital settings and monitored the impact of vaccination strategies. In 42 hospitals, bacteriologists...

Introduction - With the establishment of the Aedes albopictus mosquito in southern France, there is a real risk of initiating a chain of transmission for arboviruses, particularly dengue...

Vaccination coverage among young children is estimated using health certificates, through a collaborative effort involving general practitioners, departmental Maternal and Child Health...

To examine the incidence rates (IR) of HIV-associated tuberculosis in France, we selected 72,580 patients followed between January 1, 1997, and December 31, 2008, from the French...

Introduction - The most common route of HIV transmission in children is mother-to-child transmission. The objective of our study was to estimate the number of new HIV diagnoses among...

Introduction - AIDS surveillance in France relies on mandatory reporting (MR), the completeness of which had not been assessed since the early 1990s. The objective of this study is to...