[Screening contacts for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) using an interferon test in Paris in 2009].

There are two reasons for screening contacts: one is to identify cases of secondary tuberculosis disease (TB) and the other is to identify new cases of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). The tuberculin skin test (TST) and the interferon-gamma-release assay (IGRA) have their limitations when used for the detection of LTBI. They neither allow a definite diagnosis of LTBI nor provide information as to the date of onset.

[Targeted screening proposed in 6 migrant worker housing units in Paris in 2005: feasibility and impact study.].

Within the framework of the Mobile Radiological TB Screening Unit of the Health Department of Paris (DASES), six migrant worker housing units were selected to benefit from the presence of a health care professional on-site. This presence would ensure that following a chest X-Ray, residents would be offered the possibility of an interview with a general practitioner about Schistosoma haematobium (Sch. h.

[Schistosoma haematobium among immigrants consulting in municipal free clinics in Paris in 2003].

The "Consultations de Diagnostic et d'Orientation" (CDO) are free medical consultations for precarious populations, proposed by the Health Department of Paris. More than two-thirds of the CDO patients come from Sub-Saharan Africa. Schistosoma haematobium (SH) is one of the most frequent infectious diseases detected within CDO.

Outbreak of tuberculosis in a migrants' shelter, Paris, France, 2002.

Setting: An overcrowded 362-bed migrants' shelter in Paris, France.

Objectives: To investigate an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB), to identify a common source of contamination and to prevent further transmission.

Methods: The outbreak was identified by radiographic screening and an active search for undeclared hospital treated cases, completed by strain phenotyping and a search for contact cases.

[MRI of malformative syringomyelia. Descriptive and developmental aspect].

132 cases of malformative syringomyelia have been studied at the C.I.E.