Among the HIV-positive population: - high prevalence of HCV infection (between 24% and 28%), 70% of whom are people who use drugs; - high prevalence of cirrhosis among patients with...

Dengue and chikungunya are two arboviruses that circulated extensively in 2006 in the French overseas departments, with dengue affecting the Caribbean region and chikungunya the Indian...

Travelers, regardless of their destination or travel conditions, often experience health problems. It should be noted that infectious causes of death or serious illness are rare, largely...

Currently, vaccination coverage among young children is estimated based on 24-month health certificates. While this data source provides satisfactory estimates, it remains slow to...

The 24-month health certificate is the primary tool for estimating vaccination coverage among young children. Until 2004, county councils reported aggregated data; since 2004, they have...

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

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 the...

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...