General practitioners are on the front lines when it comes to ensuring the early diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a common, serious, and costly condition....

Current tuberculosis treatment is unsatisfactory due to its length (six months), its complexity (four drugs), and its ineffectiveness against multidrug-resistant strains. However, after...

Introduction - Transmission of tuberculosis in hospital settings can occur. This study reports on the investigation conducted following the diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis in...

This article provides a summary of the most recent descriptive epidemiological data on asthma in France. The latest national surveys show a cumulative prevalence of asthma of over 10%...

Introduction - In France, surveillance data on gonococcal infections make it possible to track trends over time from 1986 to 2006 and to describe the characteristics of patients and...

Introduction - Analysis of surveillance data on rectal lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) allows us to describe trends in case numbers since the emergence of the 2003 epidemic and the...

Surveillance of trends in Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) urogenital infections in France is conducted by a network of volunteer laboratories known as Rénachla. Since early 2000, there has...

Introduction - In 2006, a strain of Chlamydia trachomatis with a deletion in its cryptic plasmid was identified in Sweden. This strain is not detected by the molecular biology tests...

Congenital malformation registries were established in many industrialized countries following the thalidomide tragedy, which resulted in the birth of thousands of children with severe...

Introduction - The objective of this study is to describe childhood lead poisoning screening activities in France and how they have evolved since 1995. Methods - We used data from the...