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Microplastics contamination in pearl-farming lagoons of French Polynesia.
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 Pearl-farming is the second most important source of income in French Polynesia. However, tropical lagoons are fragile ecosystems with regard to anthropogenic pressures like plastic pollution, which threaten marine life and the pearl oyster-related ...
Tony Gardon +14 more
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Perspective on the Use of Innovative Surveillance Strategies Implemented for COVID-19 to Prevent Mosquito-Borne Disease Emergence in French Polynesia [PDF]
Viruses, 2022 In French Polynesia, following the emergence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in March 2020, several control measures were implemented to prevent virus spread, including a population lockdown and the interruption of ...
Maite Aubry, Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau
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Seroprevalence of arboviruses among blood donors in French Polynesia, 2011–2013
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015 Objectives: French Polynesia is a high epidemic/endemic area for arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses). We recently reported the silent circulation of Ross River virus and absence of active transmission of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) among blood donors ...
Maite Aubry +8 more
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The Lancet Global HealthBACKGROUND Gout is the most common cause of inflammatory arthritis worldwide, particularly in Pacific regions. We aimed to establish the prevalence of gout and hyperuricaemia in French Polynesia, their associations with dietary habits, their ...
T. Pascart +29 more
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Leptospirosis in French Polynesia: 11 years of surveillance data, 2007–2017
New Microbes and New Infections, 2019 Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonosis with higher incidence in tropical areas and is a neglected disease in the Pacific region. French Polynesia (FP) is a French overseas territory located in the South Pacific.
N. Bouscaren +7 more
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Pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) from French Polynesia with first species records and description of new species [PDF]
ZooKeysA new species Olpium caputi sp. nov. from Tahiti is described here based on external characters. This is the first record of the family Olpiidae Banks, 1895 from French Polynesia. Additionally, the genus Paratemnoides Harvey, 1991 is recorded from French
Katarína Krajčovičová +3 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 Between October 2013 and April 2014, more than 30,000 cases of Zika virus (ZIKV) disease were estimated to have attended healthcare facilities in French Polynesia.
A. Kucharski +5 more
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Silent Circulation of Ross River Virus in French Polynesia
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015 Objectives: Ross River is an emerging mosquito-borne disease in the Western Pacific. Ross River virus (RRV) circulation has been sporadically reported in some Pacific Island Countries and Territories but never in French Polynesia. To determine if RRV has
Maite Aubry +8 more
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Zika Virus, French Polynesia, South Pacific, 2013
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 To the Editor: We wish to clarify an inaccuracy in a letter in Emerging Infectious Diseases by Cao-Lormeau et al. (1). The authors state “In 2007, the first ZIKV outbreak reported outside Africa and Asia was retrospectively documented from biological ...
W. T. Hancock, M. Marfel, M. Bel
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