[Which are somatic diseases of migrant children ?].

WHICH ARE SOMATIC DISEASES OF MIGRANT CHILDREN? Migrant children form a vulnerable and heterogeneous population estimated at 70 000 in France. Their health is influenced by their living conditions in their home country, stress and exposure to pathogens, unsanitary housing and food insecurity during their migratory route and in their host country, as well as their parents psychological disorders. They present malnutrition, nutritional de¬ficiencies (iron and vitamin D), various dental, skin and intestinal infections, a significant prevalence of tuberculosis, and sometimes imported parasitic infections (malaria, schistosomiasis…) and lead poisoning.

Imported schistosomiasis in Paris region of France: A multicenter study of prevalence and diagnostic methods.

Background: There are few data on imported schistosomiasis - especially in children. The objectives of the present study were to estimate the prevalence of imported schistosomiasis in at-risk children in the greater Paris region of France and to compare diagnostic methods.

Method: Children at risk of schistosomiasis who consulted or were hospitalized in four hospitals in the greater Paris region were prospectively included.

Tolerance and humoral immune response to the yellow fever vaccine in sickle cell disease children treated with hydroxyurea: a multicentre prospective study.

Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) children are frequent travellers to countries where yellow fever (YF) is endemic, but there are no data regarding the safety and immunogenicity of the vaccine in such children treated with hydroxyurea (HU). The main objective of this study was to compare the tolerance and immune response to YF vaccination in SCD children treated or not with HU.

Method: SCD children < 18 years attending the international travel clinics of three large paediatric centres and requiring a first YF vaccination were included in a prospective study.

Infections and nutritional status of internationally adopted children in France.

Aim: In the context of global changes in the epidemiology of internationally adopted children (IACs), the prevalence of infectious diseases and nutritional impairment has not been recently reviewed. Moreover, in France, these characteristics of the children according to their continents of origin and preadoption special needs (SN) status have been incompletely explored.

Methods: Demographic, infectious data and anthropometric of all the newly arrived IACs seen in a specialised clinic for international adoptees in Paris, France, between 2013 and 2016 were retrospectively reviewed.

Female genital mutilation: an evaluation of the knowledge of French general and specialized travel medicine practitioners.

We investigated the knowledge of female genital mutilation (FGM) among 60 general and 52 specialized travel medicine practitioners. Less than 50% of these practitioners had adequate knowledge of FGM. Only 42.

Children with chronic health disorders travelling to the tropics: a prospective observational study.

Background: The number of trips to the tropics taken by children with chronic health disorders (CHDs) is increasing.

Methods: All of the children with CHDs who attended two international vaccination centres in France before travelling to the tropics were included in a prospective, exposed/unexposed study. Each child was age-matched with two control children and followed for 1 month after returning from the tropics.

[Hepatitis C virus screening in drug users in an addiction out-patient unit].

Aim: To investigate the feasibility and efficacy of hepatitis C virus screening in drug users in an addiction out-patient unit.

Patients And Methods: All patients followed in an addiction out-patient unit were asked to undergo anti-hepatitis C virus antibody testing; further evaluation and treatment if indicated, were offered to positive patients. When treatment was initiated (Metavir score >=F2), patients were followed-up both by the hepatologist and the out-patient unit physician.