A Flahault

..The aim of this study was to refine clinical estimates provided by a regional surveillance-system using a two-stage serological assessment as gold standard...

..Most of these patients recover spontaneously within a few days, but the medical, social and economic costs of acute diarrhea are sufficiently high to justify a more aggressive public policy to prevent and control epidemics in Europe...

..Forecasts of influenza experts usually rely on information related to new circulating strains...

..However, the universal hepatitis B immunisation strategy proposed by WHO will dramatically limit the expansion of the population of chronically infected subjects if high coverage is achieved rapidly...

..Household attack rates increased with age (55% in <6 months, >90% in >3 years) and household secondary attack rate was approximately 70%. Several levels of population structure independently affect age at varicella infection...

..To develop a method based on a space-time criterion for early detection of epidemics of influenza-like-illness in France...

..In the era of adjunctive steroid use, AIDS-related PCP remains fairly common. Two independent factors evaluable at admission, Pa(O(2)) on room air and BAL neutrophilia, are predictive of death...

..To be interpreted, this estimation has to be discussed according to the sample of population that was studied and the representativity of the "Sentinelles" general practitioners who participated the survey...

..None of these alerts was confirmed for two consecutive days. Control charts ensured that the level of the items chosen for general community health surveillance remained under control...

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..We conclude that centralized coding is a reliable alternative to practice-based coding in primary care, provided that physicians give sufficiently specific information...

..These results indicate that the Sentinel network may be a useful tool for assessing the evolution of attitudes to HCV screening in general practice...

..Limiting inter-regional mixing does little to reduce casualties, although it does confine them to a single region...

..To assess the incidence and clinical implications of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) after lung resection, and to identify possible associated risk factors...

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..In addition to the use of vaccine adjuvants, emerging research areas include development of a universal vaccine and the use of vaccines that exploit mechanisms of cross-protective immunity...

..Its presence may point to an underlying cause, such as pulmonary KS, CMV pneumonia, or hydrostatic pulmonary edema, or to triggering factors such as thrombocytopenia...

..Extension of electronic syndromic surveillance is needed in the world for improving surveillance capacities and real-time response against emerging diseases...

..Moreover, this method may be helpful for the differential diagnosis of polymyositis and dermatomyositis and for noninvasive follow-up of polymyositis patients...

..A key parameter was the rapid institution of control measures. For both epidemic profiles identified, increasing hospitalization rate reduced the predicted epidemic size...

..With increasing human progress and technological advance, the pandemic of chronic diseases will become an even bigger threat to global health...

..8% following nonsurgical admissions. The percentage of postdischarge visits that were for an NI in nonsurgical patients warrants a major effort with feedback to the hospital physician to reduce infection rates...

..On this purpose, their superiority with regard to verbal scales has to be confirmed in the field of risk perception...

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