Airborne transmission is one of several modes of transmission for infectious agents. It can occur from an environmental source, as in the case of Legionnaires' disease. Under specific...

Objectives - We describe the investigation and control of an outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus (SA) skin infections—carrying the gene encoding Panton-Valentine leukocidin [SA...

Studies based on national surveys have shown that when diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection, patients generally inform their primary partner, but men are less likely than...

Introduction. - Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming, anaerobic, Gram-positive bacillus responsible for 15% to 25% of cases of post-antibiotic diarrhea and more than 95% of cases of...

The transmission of infectious agents following endoscopy has been demonstrated in several studies. Most endoscopy-related infections were caused by bacterial agents and, less...

This circular provides, in the form of fact sheets: the new mandatory reporting procedures, the new notification forms, the role of the teams responsible for combating infectious...

Given the realities of an open health area, coordinating responses at the European level is essential. A wide range of challenges arises, from harmonizing public health data among Member...

The reported data cover a 12-year period from 1983 to 1994. The epidemiological surveillance covers serologically confirmed syphilis, gonorrhea—which is most often diagnosed clinically...

Diphtheria seemed to have disappeared from Europe. Now it has returned to our doorstep, just a two-hour flight from Paris, in all the countries of the former Soviet Union on the one...