Publications

[nosocomial infections due to rotavirus and respiratory syncytial virus in pediatric wards: a 2-year study].	rotavirus and respiratory syncytial virus (rsv) infections represent up to 30% of the totality of nosocomial infections in paediatric wards. we studied the importance of these infections in the paediatric wards of the university hospital center of poitiers, france, from october 1996 to september 1998. we defined as nosocomial an infection acquired after 3 days of hospitalization for rotavirus and after 7 days for rsv. the 274 cases of children presenting rotavirus gastroenteritis or rsv infectio ...	2000	11022103
cryptosporidium oocysts in immunocompetent children: epidemiologic investigations in the day-care centers of poitiers, france.	the recent discovery of self-resolving cryptosporidium infection in immunocompetent patients has aroused growing interest in this parasite, which has thus far been known to affect mainly immunodeficient individuals. following the hospitalization of two children attending the same day-care center in february 1986 cryptosporidium oocysts were found in the stools of one of them. this led to an epidemiological investigation to assess the frequency of cryptosporidium oocysts in the stools of children ...	1987	2826221