Introduction: In France, the spread of a hypervirulent strain causing invasive meningococcal disease of serogroup W (MenW) has been observed since 2015/16. We describe a cluster of three...

Objectives and methods: We conducted a prospective study in 2013 to compare the effectiveness and duration of protection of whole-cell versus acellular pertussis vaccines following the...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common, chronic neurodevelopmental disorder with a multifactorial etiology. It is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity in clinical...

Data on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in French Guiana are sparse and do not allow for a reliable estimate of their prevalence. However, such data are necessary for developing services...

Introduction: Our objectives were to estimate the prevalence of asthma among adults in France and to examine the effects of gender on the associations between asthma, on the one hand,...

Introduction - The objective of the study was to estimate the incidence and prevalence of type 1 diabetes in children in Brittany between 2017 and 2019. A secondary objective was to...

Introduction - Available data comparing the long-term prognosis of different types of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are limited and outdated. The objective of our study was to compare...

The National Reference Center for Campylobacter and Helicobacter (CNRCH) works with a network of local and national correspondents. H. pylori testing activity at the CNRCH continued to...

The objective of human biomonitoring is to assess the population’s exposure to organic and inorganic chemicals in order to establish reference values, compare exposure levels among...