Valérie Choumet

Arthropod-borne alphaviruses are distributed worldwide and cause considerable human morbidity and mortality. Alphaviruses cause a variety of human diseases, with clinical signs varying from fever or rash to significant inflammatory pathologies including encephalitis (e.g. […]

  State of the art and objectives Traditional means of controlling arbovirus diseases include vaccination of susceptible vertebrates and mosquito control, but in many cases these have been unavailable or ineffective. The increased disease […]

Japanese encephalitis cases are mostly found in the Asia-Pacific region and this restriction is linked to the geographical distribution of JEV main vector, Culex tritaeniorhynchus. In order to assess the potential for JEV emergence […]

  The main vectors of Zika virus are Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Aedes albopictus mosquitoes were found to be competent in laboratory experiments. Within the context of the possible emergence of this virus in Europe, […]

Despite intensive research efforts on arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses), many aspects related to immunological consequences of arthropod vector-derived salivary factors are unknown, especially those occurring at the injection site. During a blood meal, arboviruses are […]

The European Virus Archive now goes global and become EVAg as a continuation of EVA within the Horizon 2020 programme . The new EVAg consortium (25 institution from 19 countries, EU and non-EU ) […]

Groupe Arbovirus (GA) de l’Unité Environnement et Risques Infectieux a été créé en 2014. Le GA travaille sur les virus transmis par les arthropodes (Arbovirus), avec un intérêt pour les arbovirus émergents ou réémergents […]

The use of light from the abyss in biology   In the last decades, bioluminescent systems based on the expression of a luciferase and the addition of a luciferin to monitor the emission of […]