Cost-effectiveness assessment of three components of the bovine tuberculosis surveillance system by intradermal tuberculin testing in French cattle farms by a scenario tree approach.

In most officially bovine tuberculosis (bTB)-free countries, bTB has not been fully eradicated. Costly and time-consuming surveillance and control measures are therefore still in place to control this infection. An officially bTB-free status, both at the national and at the herd level, influences whether and when animals can be sold.

[Inside the French reform of nursing education: a survey of faculty members].

Changing societal health care needs has led the Ministry of Health to rethink the paramedical courses. European harmonization was needed to set up this training with the LMD system within a university scheme. Based on this new paradigm, an educational reform consisting of a competency-based approach was implemented, leading to major modifications in the function of a trainer.

[Determinants of group B streptococcus maternal colonization and factors related to its vertical perinatal transmission: case-control study].

Objectives: To investigate the determinants of Group B streptococcus (GBS) maternal colonization, as well as factors associated with its vertical transmission.

Patients And Methods: Case-control study on all singletons pregnancies delivered beyond at least 24 weeks of amenorrhoea in Southern Reunion maternities for which GBS screening was known. Multiple logistic regression analysis using 2004-2007 dataset of South Reunion birth registers.

Multidisciplinary prospective study of mother-to-child chikungunya virus infections on the island of La Réunion.

Background: An outbreak of chikungunya virus affected over one-third of the population of La Réunion Island between March 2005 and December 2006. In June 2005, we identified the first case of mother-to-child chikungunya virus transmission at the Groupe Hospitalier Sud-Réunion level-3 maternity department. The goal of this prospective study was to characterize the epidemiological, clinical, biological, and radiological features and outcomes of all the cases of vertically transmitted chikungunya infections recorded at our institution during this outbreak.

[Chikungunya infection in pregnancy: Evidence for intrauterine infection in pregnant women and vertical transmission in the parturient. Survey of the Reunion Island outbreak].

Purpose: Since February 2005, an outbreak of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infections occurred in Reunion Island. It is transmitted by the Aedes albopictus mosquito. Neonatal cases observations suggest possible fetal transmission during pregnancy.