Large-scale HEV genotype 3 outbreak on New Caledonia Island.

Background And Aims: Several symptomatic cases of HEV infections were reported to the New Caledonia Island Public Health Service between August and December 2023. This prompted epidemiological and virological investigations to identify the source of infection.

Approach And Results: HEV RNA was assessed in symptomatic patients, various food items, and pig farms on the Island.

The novel HLA-DQA1*03:01:12 allele identified using next-generation sequencing in a Melanesian individual.

HLA-DQA1*03:01:12 differs from HLA-DQA1*03:01:01:01 by one nucleotide substitution in codon 21 in exon 2.

[Two-year clinico-biological feedback in Overseas France and French-speaking territories during Covid-19 pandemic].

The French Society of Clinical Biology (SFBC) set up a working group “Biochemical markers of Covid-19” whose main objective is to review, analyse and monitor biological prescriptions according to the patient’s care path. This study covers all public and private sectors of medical biology in metropolitan France and overseas and extends to the French-speaking world. We present a summary of feedbacks after 2 years of the pandemic.

Arthritis and Osteomyelitis.

is the only species in the genus that has been involved in a previous human infection. To date, only one case of infection in a patient with GATA-2 immunodeficiency has been reported. We here report the second human case and the first case of septic arthritis and osteomyelitis due to in an immunocompetent patient, living in Mayotte, a French island in western Indian Ocean.