Laurent Abel is one of the world's leading specialists in the genetic epidemiology of infectious diseases. His wide-ranging work has focused on the genetic basis of susceptibility to mycobacterial infections: leprosy and tuberculosis. Beyond the specificity of the diseases studied, he is a specialist in " genome-wide " analysis methodologies, with a highly objective view of the advantages and limitations of the various methodologies available.

Dissecting the genetic basis of leprosy and tuberculosis

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Laurent Abel

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Infectious diseases of poverty: children on the front line : enteric infections and acu…

Is the project to eradicate infectious diseases a response to inequalities in the face of microbial …

Vaccines against enteric diseases : is it the path that is difficult or the difficult t…

Why are infants more susceptible to infectious diseases and less responsive to vaccines …

Host genetics and susceptibility to infectious diseases

Aging of the immune system and susceptibility of the elderly to infectious diseases

Tuberculosis, paradigm of an unequal disease

Dissecting the genetic basis of leprosy and tuberculosis

Introduction, anti-infective agents and resistance, where are the inequalities ?

Dynamics of the spread of resistant infectious agents

For global access to anti-infectious drugs

Introduction: North-South inequalities in the face of infectious diseases

HIV infection : issues in the North and South

Africa faces the challenge of achieving the " Millenium " health goals by …

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