Introduction - In late 2005, a nursing home in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques region reported several cases of scabies affecting residents and staff to the Departmental Directorate for Health...

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...

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

In France, there are 25 cancer registries, comprising 14 general registries and 11 specialized registries, which aim to continuously and comprehensively record all cases within specific...

Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) infections are difficult to monitor due to their mild clinical presentation and the lack of an ideal diagnostic method. The RENACHLA network covers infections...

The French National Registry of Childhood Leukemias and Lymphomas (RNLE) was established in 1995 by Inserm Unit 170 in collaboration with French pediatric hematology-oncology treatment...

The management of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopause is a significant economic and public health issue. According to an epidemiological report published in 2002 by V. Ringa,...

In 1936, Lemierre described a series of deaths resulting from sepsis caused by a Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium: "Bacillus funduliformis." This disease primarily affects healthy young...

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...