Contribution of the French army health service in support of expertise and research in infectiology in Africa
Historically, infectious diseases have caused more casualties than battle. The French military health service therefore developed a range of research on vector-borne diseases such as malaria and arboviruses, antibiotic resistance, infectious agents that can be used as biological weapons and vaccines...
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| description | Historically, infectious diseases have caused more casualties than battle. The French military health service therefore developed a range of research on vector-borne diseases such as malaria and arboviruses, antibiotic resistance, infectious agents that can be used as biological weapons and vaccines. The main objective is to control naturally acquired or provoked infectious diseases and limit their impact on armed forces as well as on civilian populations in France or abroad, particularly in Africa and anywhere French armies may be deployed. The expertise of the military health service teams in manipulating agents requiring high level of biosafety precautions and in organizing and providing medical care in unnatural conditions, including the battlefield, associated with complementarity staff experience (physicians, biologists, epidemiologists, researchers, pharmacists, logisticians), has been used in the management of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea. Keywords: Africa, arbovirus, drug resistance, Ebola, malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, vaccine, vector-borne diseases |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3edcffdceb7b4846a4ab1ec9c79cab122022-12-22T00:21:06ZengElsevierNew Microbes and New Infections2052-29752018-11-0126S78S82Contribution of the French army health service in support of expertise and research in infectiology in AfricaB. Pradines0C. Rogier1Unité Parasitologie et entomologie, Département des maladies infectieuses, Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, Institut hospitalo-universitaire (IHU) Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France; Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France; Centre national de référence du paludisme, Institut hospitalo-universitaire (IHU) Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France; Corresponding author: B. Pradines, Unité Parasitologie et entomologie, Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, Institut hospitalo-universitaire (IHU) Méditerranée Infection, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseille, France.Division Expertise et stratégie santé de défense, Direction centrale du service de santé des armées, Paris, FranceHistorically, infectious diseases have caused more casualties than battle. The French military health service therefore developed a range of research on vector-borne diseases such as malaria and arboviruses, antibiotic resistance, infectious agents that can be used as biological weapons and vaccines. The main objective is to control naturally acquired or provoked infectious diseases and limit their impact on armed forces as well as on civilian populations in France or abroad, particularly in Africa and anywhere French armies may be deployed. The expertise of the military health service teams in manipulating agents requiring high level of biosafety precautions and in organizing and providing medical care in unnatural conditions, including the battlefield, associated with complementarity staff experience (physicians, biologists, epidemiologists, researchers, pharmacists, logisticians), has been used in the management of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea. Keywords: Africa, arbovirus, drug resistance, Ebola, malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, vaccine, vector-borne diseaseshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S205229751830043X |
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| title | Contribution of the French army health service in support of expertise and research in infectiology in Africa |
| title_full | Contribution of the French army health service in support of expertise and research in infectiology in Africa |
| title_fullStr | Contribution of the French army health service in support of expertise and research in infectiology in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contribution of the French army health service in support of expertise and research in infectiology in Africa |
| title_short | Contribution of the French army health service in support of expertise and research in infectiology in Africa |
| title_sort | contribution of the french army health service in support of expertise and research in infectiology in africa |
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