Impacts on Human Health Potentially Caused by Exposure to an Unprecedented spp Bloom in the Bay of Biscay, French Basque Coast.

Introduction: In recent years, climate change and human activity have modified marine biotopes, including the widening distribution of harmful algal blooms (HABs). Bloom events predominated by microalgae of the genus have been described on the French Mediterranean coast, but in 2021 an unprecedented bloom occurred on the French Basque coast. The objective of this study is to describe the health impact of the spp bloom that occurred on the French Basque coast in 2021.

Pre-hospital triage of children at risk of oesophageal button battery impaction: the button battery impaction score.

Introduction: Button battery ingestion in children can be fatal if oesophageal perforation occurs. Such children require chest radiography in the emergency department to determine the button battery position and number. Current guidelines recommend that a button battery impacted in the oesophagus should be removed within two hours.

French Scorpionism (Mainland and Oversea Territories): Narrative Review of Scorpion Species, Scorpion Venom, and Envenoming Management.

Sixty-seven scorpion species have been described in France and its territories, where they have been found to be heterogeneously distributed. Indeed, only one species can be found on Réunion Island, while 38 species exist in French Guiana. The number of stings is also heterogenous, with up to 90 stings per 100,000 inhabitants occurring annually.

Button Battery Ingestion in Children (PilBouTox®): A Prospective Study Describing the Clinical Course and Identifying Factors Related to Esophageal Impaction or Severe Cases.

In this study, we aimed to identify the factors related to esophageal impaction following button battery (BB) ingestion in children. PilBouTox, a prospective multicentric observational cohort study, was conducted from French Poison Control Centers between June 1, 2016 and May 31, 2018. Children (0-12 years old) with BB ingestion were included.

Poison control centres and alternative forms of communication: comparison of response rates between text message and telephone follow-up.

Introduction: In recent years, the number of patients managed by poison control centres (PCCs) has increased without a proportional increase in the number of physicians. To improve efficiency without neglecting patient follow-up, some PCCs have begun using text messages. We evaluated the difference in response rates between text messaging and traditional telephone follow-up.

Relationship Between Scorpion Stings Events and Environmental Conditions in Mainland France.

In the world, the impact of environmental conditions on the number of scorpion events was evaluated in North Africa,Middle East, and the Amazonian region but not in Europe. In mainland France, scorpion species described are Buthus occitanus (Amoreux, 1789), Belisarius xambeui (Simon, 1879) and 4 Euscorpiidae: Euscorpius concinnus (Koch, 1837), Euscorpius italicus (Herbst, 1800), Euscorpius tergestinus (Koch, 1837), and Tetratrichobothrius flavicaudis (De Geer, 1778). We aimed to describe the impact of environmental conduction on the number of scorpion events.

Epidemiology of scorpionism in France: nationwide scorpion exposure.

Introduction: In France, 57 species of scorpions are described with a limited number of clinical studies. In this article, we report the epidemiology of scorpion sting events in mainland France and its overseas territories based on cases reported to the French poison-control centres (FPCC).

Material And Method: This retrospective multicentre study was conducted with data from FPCC's files about scorpion stings between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2020.

Pediatric scorpionism in northern Amazonia: a 16-year study on epidemiological, environmental and clinical aspects.

Background: The Amazon basin is one of the seven major geographical areas where scorpionism is recorded. In French Guiana, 90 stings per 100,000 inhabitants are registered per year. As the severity of cases is higher in children, descriptive studies are needed to have a better understanding of this pathology.

Increased incidence of Campylobacter enteritis and their quinolone resistance between 2010 and 2015: Results of a French national observatory conducted in 21 general hospitals (CHG).

Introduction: In Europe, the number of cases of Campylobacter enteritis and their quinolone resistance is increasing. The aims of this work were to evaluate: (1) the hospital epidemiology of bacterial enteritis between 2010 and 2015. (2) The proportion of Campylobacter and Salmonella enteritis.

A cluster of Vibrio cholerae O1 infections in French travelers to Rajasthan (India), May 2006.

A woman aged 60 years was hospitalized for Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 cholera. Twenty-six fellow travelers and 48 health care workers who cared for the patient were individually traced and contacted. Of the 23/27 travelers with diarrhea during the trip, 4 presented antibodies.

Antimicrobial resistance data on 16,756 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in 1999: A Pan-Regional Multicenter Surveillance Study in France.

The rising prevalence of antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae is a phenomenon observed to different degrees around the world. The present national surveillance study report analyzes a total of 16,756 strains of S. pneumoniae collected across France in 1999.

[Evolution of antibiotic resistance and serogroups of Streptococcus pneumoniae over the 1997-2003 period in Brittany].

At this time, many antibiotics have decreased activity against Streptococcus pneumoniae, a major agent of infectious disease. In this study, we evaluated antibiotic susceptibility and serogroups of strains isolated from bacteraemia, meningitis and acute otitis media in adults and children over the 1997-2003 period in Brittany, France. In 2003, 62% of the isolates were not susceptible to penicillin and 11% were fully resistant.

Geographic dissemination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains: a French regional study.

The aim of this study was to compare methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains collected in eight hospitals located in the same region of France (Brittany) over a short period (January 1999-July 2000). Ninety-two isolates of methicillin-resistant S. aureus were characterised by their pulsotype and their antibiotype.

[Antibiotics resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Results from the Brittany registry for 1999].

Throughout 1999, clinical microbiology laboratories of 13 hospitals in Brittany have recovered Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in 832 patients, 312 (37.5%) female and 518 (62.2%) male.

Nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis among mentally-handicapped patients in a long-term care facility.

Setting: A long-term care facility at Saint-Brieuc hospital, France.

Objective: To investigate a nosocomial outbreak of culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis in 6 (40%) of 15 mentally handicapped HIV-seronegative patients.

Design: The factors contributing to the outbreak were analyzed and the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) patterns of the six Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains were compared.

[Yersinia enterocolitica septicemia associated with idiopathic hemochromatosis and deferoxamine therapy. A case].

Yersinia enterocolitica septicaemia is an infrequent condition. We report a case in which septicaemia developed after an infusion of desferrioxamine in a man with idiopathic haemochromatosis. According to the literature, the association of idiopathic haemochromatosis, liver disease and desferrioxamine therapy is extremely favourable to the development of Yersinia septicaemia because iron intake is known to enhance the virulence of this organism, and desferrioxamine, acting like a chelator, enables Yersinia to incorporate iron, which it does not normally do.

Dermonecrotic toxin production by strains of Pasteurella multocida isolated from man.

Ninety-four clinical isolates of Pasteurella multocida of human origin were tested for dermonecrotic toxin (DNT) production by three methods: dermonecrotic test in guinea-pigs, Vero cell culture cytotoxicity and ELISA. The strains were isolated from patients living in a rural area with widespread intensive pig breeding. Six strains were found to be toxigenic by the three tests.