Patrick Durand
Institut de recherche pour le développement
27 Papers
282 Citations
Patrick Durand is an academic researcher from Institut de recherche pour le développement. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genetic diversity & Genetic variability. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 27 publications. Previous affiliations of Patrick Durand include University of Montpellier & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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Papers
Incidence of tick-borne relapsing fever in west Africa: longitudinal study.
Laurence Vial,Georges Diatta,Adama Tall,El Hadj Ba,Hilaire Bouganali,Patrick Durand,Cheikh Sokhna,Christophe Rogier,Christophe Rogier,François Renaud,Jean-François Trape +10 more
TL;DR: The presence of the vector tick in most villages investigated and its high infection rate suggest that TBRF is a common cause of fever in most rural areas of Senegal, Mauritania, and Mali.
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Genomes of all known members of a Plasmodium subgenus reveal paths to virulent human malaria.
Thomas D. Otto,Thomas D. Otto,Aude Gilabert,Thomas Crellen,Thomas Crellen,Ulrike Böhme,Céline Arnathau,Mandy Sanders,Samuel O. Oyola,Samuel O. Oyola,Alain Prince Okauga,Larson Boundenga,Eric Willaume,Barthélémy Ngoubangoye,Nancy Diamella Moukodoum,Christophe Paupy,Patrick Durand,Virginie Rougeron,Benjamin Ollomo,François Renaud,Chris I. Newbold,Chris I. Newbold,Matthew Berriman,Franck Prugnolle +23 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that interspecific gene transfers, as well as convergent evolution, were important in the evolution of the Laverania subgenus and features of the human-infecting Plasmodium falciparum species that enable parasite transmission in humans.
The Epidemiology and Geographic Distribution of Relapsing Fever Borreliosis in West and North Africa, with a Review of the Ornithodoros erraticus Complex (Acari: Ixodida)
Jean-François Trape,Georges Diatta,Céline Arnathau,Idir Bitam,M’hammed Sarih,Driss Belghyti,Ali Bouattour,Eric Elguero,Laurence Vial,Youssouph Mané,Cellou Baldé,Franck Pugnolle,Gilles Chauvancy,Gil Mahé,Laurent Granjon,Jean-Marc Duplantier,Patrick Durand,François Renaud +17 more
TL;DR: Borrelia Spirochetes responsible for relapsing fever in humans are highly prevalent both in Ornithodoros ticks and small mammals in North and West Africa but Ornithdoros ticks seem absent south of 13°N andSmall mammals are not infected in these regions.
Population genetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum in the two main African vectors, Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus
Zeinab Annan,Patrick Durand,Francisco J. Ayala,Céline Arnathau,Parfait Awono-Ambene,Frédéric Simard,Fabien Razakandrainibe,Jacob C. Koella,Didier Fontenille,François Renaud +9 more
TL;DR: The genetic population structure of P. falciparum was predominantly clonal rather than panmictic, a population structure that facilitates the spread of antimalarial drug and vaccine resistance and thus may impair the effectiveness of malaria control efforts.
Adaptive sex allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite.
TL;DR: A hermaphroditic platyhelminth parasite, Echinostoma caproni, inhabits the small intestine of vertebrates, inevitably inducing the formation of highly subdivided populations, a condition known to promote local mate competition.
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