The Laboratory for urgent response to biological threats, called in French Cellule d’Intervention Biologique d’Urgence (CIBU), was created at the end of 2002, under the impulse of the Directorate-General of Health, of the Minsitry […]
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Rabies is an acute, progressive and incurable viral encephalitis, although some preventive measures were described by Louis Pasteur almost 130 years ago. This anthropozoonosis affects many different animal species and has an epidemiology that […]
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Sorry, this entry is only available in French.
Sorry, this entry is only available in French.
Leptospirosis is a zoonotic bacterial disease found predominantly in impoverished populations inhabiting developing countries with tropical climates. Rodents are the main reservoir of the disease, excreting the bacteria in their urine. Humans are usually […]
The French National Reference Centre (CNR) for enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli, Shigella and Salmonella originated from a laboratory created at the end of the 1940s by Prof. L. Le Minor, which became a reference worldwide […]
The French National Reference Center for diphtheria (officially: the NRC for Corynebacteria of the diphtheriae complex; web pages in French) operates under the mandate of Public Health France (Santé publique France). Its missions are to diagnose […]
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The French National Reference Center for Invasive Mycoses and Antifungals (NRCMA) has broad missions defined by the Santé Publique France (our Center for Diseases Control) (1) Expertise on all pathogenic fungi responsible for invasive […]