Education activities - Institut Pasteur du Laos

Photo n°4: Training interpretation of Dengue diagnosis for military staffs

Arboshield: module 2 “Biosafety, biosecurity”; 26 participants from military hospitals, the Lao Army Institute of Preventive Medicine and civil hospitals divided into two sessions of one week each. 13–24^th February 2018

Arboshield: module 3: “Laboratory diagnosis of viral vector-borne diseases”; 26 participants from military hospitals, the Lao Army Institute of Preventive Medicine and civil hospitals divided into two sessions of one week each; 8–19^th May 2018.

Zika virus diagnosis: Management of the Master’s theses of four students from the National University of Health Science.

Scientific communications

Grandadam, M. “Yellow fever diagnosis preparedness in Laos.” Institut Pasteur International Network Regional meeting. Shanghai, December 2017

Grandadam, M. “Dengue surveillance in Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR. Past, present and future.” Institut Pasteur International Network Regional meeting. Pu’Er, China, April 2018.

Somlor, S. “Anticipating dengue season, 2018”. National Dengue meeting. Vientiane, February 24-25^th 2018.
Somlor, S. “Dengue virus serotype 4 genotypes in Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR: 2014–2018.” National Research Forum. Vientiane, September 2018 (oral communication).

Somlor, S., Vongpayloth, K., Diancourt, L., Buchy, P., Duong, V., Phonekeo, D., Ketmayoon, P., Vongphrachanh, P., Brey, P. T., Caro, V., Buisson, Y., and Grandadam, M. Chikungunya virus emergence in the Lao PDR, 2012–2013. PLoS One. 2017 Dec 28;12(12):e0189879. doi: 10.1371

Tangena, J.A., Marcombe, S., Thammavong, P., Chonephetsarath, S., Somphong, B., Sayteng, K., Grandadam, M., Sutherland, I. W., Lindsay, S. W., Brey, P. T. Bionomics and insecticide resistance of the arboviral vector Aedes albopictus in northern Lao PDR. PLoS One. 2018 Oct 25;13(10):e0206387. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206387. eCollection 2018.