Epidemiology of Emerging Diseases

Mise au point d’une méthode de mesure de la longueur des télomères de cellules du sang prélevé sur du papier buvard “TELOBUV “(2023-021). TELOBUV est une demande d’utilisation à des fins scientifiques d’échantillons collectés […]

(Last update: 10/10/2023) Context In early 2020, the first French death attributed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus was a teacher from Crépy-en-Valois, a city north of Paris. The intense circulation of the novel coronavirus in […]

Previously considered to cause limited human infection and mild disease, Zika virus (ZIKV) caused several large outbreaks in Yap Island in 2007, in French Polynesia in 2013-2014 and the 2015-2016 epidemic across the Americas […]

The ComCor study is a nationwide case-control study which aims first to describe the locations and circumstances of recent SARS-CoV-2 infection, and second, to assess the role of different settings and activities in the […]

Monkeypox is an emerging Orthopoxvirus responsible for monkeypox disease, clinically similar to smallpox with a lethality of around 1 to 10%. This disease is a zoonosis initially transmitted from an animal reservoir and then […]

Recent experience with SARS and MERS-CoV reveals the hurdles of surveying pandemic risk of emerging infectious diseases. Initially, both diseases showed low transmissibility, insufficient to start pandemics. However, concerns were that, after a short […]

Although the risk of HCV acquisition during certain medical procedures, such as dialysis or blood transfusion, has been previously estimated for patients from high-income countries, the overall risk of HCV acquisition associated with hospital […]

Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an important cause of premature adult deaths in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), due to liver cancer or cirrhosis. To reduce the disease burden, it is critical to […]

Background: Clinical trials are performed under optimal conditions where patients are highly selected without co-morbidities, clinical supervision is provided by specialists, and strict protocols are used to enhance patient compliance. Due to this, results […]

The purpose of this study is to conduct a “history of the present” of the West African Ebola Outbreak by investigating the personal experiences and recollections of people involved in the humanitarian response. In […]

The aim of this study is to develop and evaluate a community-based home visit intervention in sub-Saharan Africa to improve the coverage of a timely birth dose of HBV vaccine and neonatal care practices […]

As a follow-up to ANRS funding for a feasibility study (ANRS 12232), I received in 2011 funding from ANRS for an in-depth anthropological study of hepatitis B and vaccination in Bobo Dioulasso and the […]

This multi-disciplinary study examines the changing nature and contexts of human contact with great apes and monkeys in equatorial Africa and the health consequences of that contact. Biomedical researchers have scrutinized the nature of […]

The aim of this project is to develop a more grounded, robust historical context for the emergence of HIV. While some hypotheses for the emergence of HIV have been suggested, they have been offered […]

(Collaborators: Sébastien Breurec, Ionela Gouandjika,Thierry Frank, Caroline Martin (IP Bangui), Petulla bata, Jean Gody (Complexe pédiatrique Bangui), Tamara Giles-Vernick, Loic chartier, Muriel Vray (IP Paris)). Funding : The fondation Total. Diarrhea ranks as the […]

(Collaborators: Alexandre Manirakiza, Sandrine Moussa, Aude Boulay, Olga Sakanga, Sébastien Breurec, Mirdad Kazanji(IP Bangui), Lenaig Le-Fouler, Muriel Vray (IP Paris)). Funding : Fondation de France. Accounting for HIV serological status in patients is critically […]

(Collaborators : Tamara Giles-Vernick, Abdoulaye Traoré, Sodiomon B. Sirima). Funded by the World Health Organization, 2010-11. The primary aim was to test the acceptability and feasibility of an intervention package for the community management […]

Funding: ANRS & EC. The main research objectives of this multidisciplinary network funded by the ANRS and the EC are the assessment of the burden of HCV infection and disease in Egypt, the study […]

  Funding: ANR, Fondation Raoul Follereau, Fondation SANOFI Espoir. In this new research program, we will conduct for the first time the simultaneous collection of environmental (plants and insects) and human samples in two […]

  Funding : DCI Monaco. In collaboration with epidemiologists from the Centre de Recherche Médicale et Sanitaire (CERMES) in Niamey, we are using recent advances in Geographic Information Systems and statistical methodology to investigate […]