Publications by authors named "A Septfons"
Objectives: This study aims to understand a major result of ComCor, an online epidemiological study conducted to identify the circumstances of COVID-19 infection in France from 2020 to 2022: One third of respondents reported ignoring the circumstances of their infection.
Methods: We conducted a qualitative study through semi-structured interviews, diagnosed in spring or summer 2021. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and thematically analyzed.
Freshwater sports involve a wide range of practices leading to contact with soil and water that can entail exposure to agents of potential infectious diseases. The pathogens can be multiple (bacteria, parasites, viruses, fungi), and be either well-known or more unfamiliar and exotic. We conducted a literature review to describe various infections contracted following exposure to water and mud during freshwater sport activities.
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- Serological testing for Lyme borreliosis (LB) in patients with erythema migrans (EM) is not advised per European guidelines, prompting a study on French general practitioners' (GPs) adherence to these recommendations.
- The study included 1,831 EM cases and found that only 24.0% resulted in a serological test prescription, showing a significant decline from 46.8% in 2009 to 15.8% in 2020.
- Key factors leading to serological test prescriptions included the absence of a reported tick bite, presence of multiple EM lesions, larger EM size, and GPs who diagnosed fewer than one EM case per year, indicating a
BackgroundLyme borreliosis (LB) is the most common tick-borne disease (TBD) in France. Forestry workers are at high risk of TBD because of frequent exposure to tick bites.AimWe aimed to estimate the seroprevalence of sensu lato and tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) antibodies among forestry workers in northern France.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackgroundLyme borreliosis (LB) is the most widespread hard tick-borne zoonosis in the northern hemisphere. Existing studies in Europe have focused mainly on acarological risk assessment, with few investigations exploring human LB occurrence.AimWe explored the determinants of spatial and seasonal LB variations in France from 2016 to 2021 by integrating environmental, animal, meteorological and anthropogenic factors, and then mapped seasonal LB risk predictions.
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