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

Epidemiological surveillance of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in France relies primarily on mandatory reporting and the phenotypic and genotypic characterization of strains at...

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...

In France, drowning is a major public health issue, as it accounts for more than 500 accidental deaths each year and can sometimes result in serious long-term effects. The NOYADES 2009...

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...

France is classified as a country with low endemicity for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, with an estimated prevalence of HBs antigen (HBsAg) of 0.65%, an incidence of symptomatic...

The data presented here pertain to cases of active tuberculosis reported in 2008 under the mandatory tuberculosis reporting system. In 2008, there were 5,758 reported cases of active...

Objectives. The mandatory BCG vaccination requirement was replaced in July 2007 by a strong recommendation to vaccinate children most at risk of tuberculosis. We estimated BCG...