Responsabilité des prestataires techniques. Le droit français

ans ce texte, l’auteur examine le régime de responsabilité des prestataires techniques au regard de la Loi pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique. Cette analyse est basée sur le rôle des fournisseurs d’accès et des fournisseurs de services de stockage. Par ailleurs, l’auteur présente les obligations légales d’identification et de coopération avec les services judiciaires mises à la charge des prestataires techniques.In this text, the author examines responsibility of technical providers in the new French law, Loi pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique. This analysis is based on the role of Internet service providers and of storage providers. In addition, the author presents the legal obligations of identification and co-operation of the technical providers with respect to judicial services

[Clostridium-difficile - a Typing Method for Epidemiologic Studies]

One hundred and twenty two strains of Clostridium difficile were studied: 33 strains were isolated from stools of neonates or children, 89 cases of antibiotic associated diarrhea. The strains were identified by biochemical tests and gaz liquid chromatography of the fermentation products. A typing scheme for Clostridium difficile were proposed by using a polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole cell proteins. We studied the correlation between this typing and the serogrouping scheme based on slide agglutination with a rabbit antisera and previously described by Delmee. The serogrouping defines 10 groups, PAGE allows the differentiation of 12 profiles, with a good correlation between the two methods for some serogroup except for the heterogenous serogroup A