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  1. Anti-inflammatory cytokine profile and Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction in Leptospirosis patients: A prospective case-series study in New Caledonia

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, September 2025, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  2. Postelimination Cluster of Lymphatic Filariasis, Futuna, 2024

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, March 2025, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  3. Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, January 2025, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  4. Spatio-temporal risk prediction of leptospirosis: A machine-learning-based approach

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, January 2025, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  5. Water-Based Surveillance Detects Silent Circulation of Carbapenem and Third Generation Cephalosporin Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria in New Caledonian Environment

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  6. One Health Field Approach Applied to Leptospirosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Across Humans, Animals and the Environment

    Article • Open Forum Infectious Diseases, December 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  7. Decade of Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacterales in New Caledonia: Integrative Surveillance Though Genomic, Phenotypic and Clinical approaches

    Article • December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  8. Leptospira interrogans biofilm transcriptome highlights adaption to starvation and general stress while maintaining virulence

    Article • npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  9. Climate-driven models of leptospirosis dynamics in tropical islands from three oceanic basins

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, April 2024, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  10. Gout is a neglected non-communicable disease in the Pacific

    Article • The Lancet Global Health, April 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  11. Rainfall-driven resuspension of pathogenic Leptospira in a leptospirosis hotspot

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  12. Leptospirosis: toward a better understanding of the environmental lifestyle of Leptospira

    Article • Frontiers in Water, July 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  13. Hydrological driver for leptospiroses abundance in a small tropical catchment ? Example from the New Caledonian leptospirosis hot-spot

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  14. Ertapenem Supplemented Selective Media as a New Strategy to Distinguish β-Lactam-Resistant Enterobacterales: Application to Clinical and Wastewater Samples

    Article • Antibiotics, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  15. Corrigendum: Escape of TLR5 recognition by Leptospira spp.: A rationale for atypical endoflagella

    Article • Frontiers in Immunology, November 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  16. A fusidic acid-resistant (PVL+) clone is associated with the increase in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in New Caledonia

    Article • Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  17. Leptospira

    Article • August 2022, Wiley

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  18. Unraveling the invisible leptospirosis in mainland Southeast Asia and its fate under climate change

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  19. Original Leptospira spp. in island's native terrestrial mammals: A case study in Pteropus spp. bats of New Caledonia

    Article • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, July 2022, Wiley

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  20. La leptospirose et ses complications : résultats de l'étude LeptoK sur 179 patients hospitalisés

    Article • Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses Formation, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  21. Clinical Evaluation of the Modified Faine Criteria in Patients Admitted with Suspected Leptospirosis to the Territorial Hospital, New Caledonia, 2018 to 2019

    Article • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, February 2022, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  22. Prevention and control of highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a Pacific territory: Feedback from New Caledonia between 2004 and 2020

    Article • Infectious Diseases Now, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  23. Leptospira ainlahdjerensis sp. nov., Leptospira ainazelensis sp. nov., Leptospira abararensis sp. nov. and Leptospira chreensis sp. nov., four new species isolated from water sources in Algeria

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, December 2021, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  24. Eosinophilic meningitis in New Caledonia: The role of Angiostrongylus cantonensis?

    Article • PLOS One, August 2021, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  25. Attending school protects children from leptospirosis in New Caledonia

    Article • PLOS One, November 2020, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  26. Escape of TLR5 Recognition by Leptospira spp.: A Rationale for Atypical Endoflagella

    Article • Frontiers in Immunology, August 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  27. Leptospira interrogans Retains Direct Virulence After Long Starvation in Water

    Article • Current Microbiology, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  28. Leptospira interrogans' biofilm allows withstanding environmental stress

    Article • npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  29. Escape of TLR5 Recognition by Leptospira spp: A Rationale for Atypical Endoflagella

    Article • May 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  30. Leptospira interrogans  and Leptospira kirschneri are the dominant Leptospira species causing human leptospirosis in Central Malaysia

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, March 2020, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant, Dr Vasantha Kumari Neela

  31. A systematic review of Leptospira in water and soil environments

    Article • PLOS One, January 2020, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  32. Biofilm Formation and Quantification Using the 96-Microtiter Plate

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  33. Isolation and Culture of Leptospira from Clinical and Environmental Samples

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  34. Use of MALDI-ToF Mass Spectrometry for Identification of Leptospira

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  35. Health Challenges of the Pacific Region: Insights From History, Geography, Social Determinants, Genetics, and the Microbiome

    Article • Frontiers in Immunology, September 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  36. Counting Oceanians of Non-European, Non-Asian Descent (ONENA) in the South Pacific to Make Them Count in Global Health.

    Article • Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, August 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  37. Mucoviscous characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains: A factor of clinical severity?

    Article • Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  38. Revisiting the taxonomy and evolution of pathogenicity of the genus Leptospira through the prism of genomics

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, May 2019, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  39. Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document

    Article • Database, January 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Daniel Prieto, Associate Professor James A.L. Brown, Professor Amanda G Thrift, Docent Kutty Selva Nandakumar, Professor Miguel Viveiros, MD Diego A. Valera-Cornejo, Dr Soroush Safaei, Dr Carmen San Martín, Piero Carninci, Dr Florian Rehfeldt, Dr Yoichi Watanabe, Kazuki Ide, Mr Alvin Wong, PD Dr. Adrian Meule, Dr Maurizio Petrelli, Dr Christine McGarrigle, Dr Tristan Reddan, Dr Nicola Roberts, Professor Stefan Lorkowski, Dr Cyrille Goarant, Dr Emma C Hobbs, Dr. Saurab Sharma, Ph.D., Dr Farid Rahimi, Prof. Iseult Lynch, Mirella Walker, Dr Luca Galluzzi, Sophie Ohlsson, Professor Tullio Florio, Dr Rabea A Gadelkareem, Dr Azubuike Christian Ukubuiwe, Prof Gajendra PS Raghava, Prof Jun Shen, Lubna Razak, ABHISHEKA BANSAL, Craig Billington, Dr Alejandro Lazo-Langner, Joan Albiol, MOURAD TAYEBI, Chuang Ma, Christine Toelzer , Dr. Kathrin Karsay, Professor Andrew M Beale, Professor Hugh James Byrne, Dr Ugo Marzocchi, Ana Nordberg, Martin Bartas, Natalia Echeverría, Dr Patricia M Graves

  40. Leptospira and Leptospirosis

    Article • January 2019, Michigan State University Press

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  41. Evidence that leptospirosis research is underfunded

    Article • Journal of Global Health, December 2018, Edinburgh University Global Health Society

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  42. Leptospirosis in French Historical Medical Literature: Weil’s Disease or Kelsch’s Disease?

    Article • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, October 2018, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    Dr Cyrille Goarant, Dr. Arnaud Tarantola

  43. A Large Leptospirosis Outbreak following Successive Severe Floods in Fiji, 2012

    Article • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, August 2018, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  44. Evidence of human leptospirosis cases in a cohort of febrile patients in Bangui, Central African Republic: a retrospective study, 2012–2015

    Article • BMC Infectious Diseases, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  45. High incidence of leptospirosis in Vanuatu

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, June 2018, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant, Dr. Arnaud Tarantola

  46. A systematic review of human and animal leptospirosis in the Pacific Islands reveals pathogen and reservoir diversity

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, May 2018, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  47. High biodiversity in the genus Leptospira

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, May 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  48. Soil Leptospira reveal high biodiversity and low-virulent species in the Pathogen cluster

    Article • Microbial Genomics, January 2018, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  49. Continuous Excretion of Leptospira borgpetersenii Ballum in Mice Assessed by Viability Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction

    Article • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, October 2017, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  50. High level of IL-10 expression in the blood of animal models possibly relates to resistance against leptospirosis

    Article • Cytokine, August 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  51. Advances and challenges in barcoding pathogenic and environmental Leptospira

    Article • Parasitology, July 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  52. Isolation of Leptospira from blood culture bottles

    Article • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, May 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  53. Presumptive diagnosis of leptospirosis before seroconversion: a review of 338 cases in Wallis and Futuna 2008 to 2015

    Article • Annales de biologie clinique, March 2017, John Libbey Eurotext

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  54. Seeking the environmental source of Leptospirosis reveals durable bacterial viability in river soils

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, February 2017, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  55. Leptospirosis challenges

    Article • Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine, September 2016, Dove Medical Press

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  56. Zika virus infection as an unexpected finding in a Leptospirosis patient

    Article • JMM Case Reports, June 2016, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  57. Cytokine and Chemokine Expression in Kidneys during Chronic Leptospirosis in Reservoir and Susceptible Animal Models

    Article • PLOS One, May 2016, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  58. Melioidosis in New Caledonia: a dominant strain in a transmission hotspot

    Article • Epidemiology and Infection, November 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  59. An Unprecedented High Incidence of Leptospirosis in Futuna, South Pacific, 2004 – 2014, Evidenced by Retrospective Analysis of Surveillance Data

    Article • PLOS One, November 2015, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  60. Experimental Hamster Infection with a Strain of Leptospira borgpetersenii Ballum Isolated from a Reservoir Mouse in New Caledonia

    Article • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, May 2015, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  61. Leptospirosis After a Stay in Madagascar

    Article • Journal of Travel Medicine, March 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  62. Detection of Zika Virus in Urine

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, January 2015, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  63. Severity markers in severe leptospirosis: a cohort study

    Article • European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

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    Article • Cytokine, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  65. Though not Reservoirs, Dogs might Transmit Leptospira in New Caledonia

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, April 2014, MDPI AG

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  66. El Niño Southern Oscillation and Leptospirosis Outbreaks in New Caledonia

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, April 2014, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  67. A Putative Regulatory Genetic Locus Modulates Virulence in the Pathogen Leptospira interrogans

    Article • Infection and Immunity, March 2014, ASM Journals

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  68. An exotic case of leptospirosis imported into an endemic area

    Article • Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  69. Leptospirosis: Time to move to molecular epidemiology

    Article • Infection Genetics and Evolution, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  70. Association between Age and Severity to Leptospirosis in Children

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, September 2013, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  71. Sensitivity and Specificity of a New Vertical Flow Rapid Diagnostic Test for the Serodiagnosis of Human Leptospirosis

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, June 2013, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  72. Biological, physiological, immunological and nutritional assessment of farm-reared Litopenaeus stylirostris shrimp affected or unaffected by vibriosis

    Article • Aquaculture, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  73. Leptospirosis risk increases with changes in species composition of rat populations

    Article • The Science of Nature, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant, Prof. dr hab. Jörn Theuerkauf

  74. Risk Factors and Predictors of Severe Leptospirosis in New Caledonia

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, January 2013, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  75. DifferentialIn VivoGene Expression of Major Leptospira Proteins in Resistant or Susceptible Animal Models

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2012, ASM Journals

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  76. Rodent Abundance Dynamics and Leptospirosis Carriage in an Area of Hyper-Endemicity in New Caledonia

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, October 2011, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  77. Gene Expression Profiles of Immune Mediators and Histopathological Findings in Animal Models of Leptospirosis: Comparison between Susceptible Hamsters and Resistant Mice

    Article • Infection and Immunity, August 2011, ASM Journals

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  78. Deciphering leptospirosis eco-epidemiology in New Caledonia

    Article • BMC Proceedings, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  79. Networking to implement diagnostic capacity and (re-) evaluate the public health importance of leptospirosis in the Institut Pasteur International Network

    Article • BMC Proceedings, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  80. Virulence of an emerging pathogenic lineage of Vibrio nigripulchritudo is dependent on two plasmids

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, September 2010, Wiley

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  81. Surveillance active de la leptospirose humaine en milieu hospitalier au Cambodge

    Article • Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique, March 2010, Lavoisier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  82. Differential Cytokine Gene Expression According to Outcome in a Hamster Model of Leptospirosis

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, January 2010, PLOS

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  83. Rapid Leptospira identification by direct sequencing of the diagnostic PCR products in New Caledonia

    Article • BMC Microbiology, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  84. Vibrio nigripulchritudomonitoring and strain dynamics in shrimp pond sediments

    Article • Journal of Applied Microbiology, November 2009, Wiley

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  85. Correlation between antibiotic susceptibilities and genotypes in Neisseria gonorrhoeae from different geographical origins: determinants monitoring by real-time PCR as a complementary tool for surveillance

    Article • Sexually Transmitted Infections, November 2009, BMJ

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  86. Leptospira: the dawn of the molecular genetics era for an emerging zoonotic pathogen

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  87. Outbreak of leptospirosis in New Caledonia: diagnosis issues and burden of disease

    Article • Tropical Medicine & International Health, August 2009, Wiley

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  88. Quinolone Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Rapid Genotyping of Quinolone Resistance-Determining Regions in gyrA and parC Genes by Melting Curve Analysis Predicts Susceptibility

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, January 2009, ASM Journals

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  89. Real-Time PCR Detection of gyrA and parC Mutations in Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, August 2008, ASM Journals

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  90. A relationship between antimicrobial peptide gene expression and capacity of a selected shrimp line to survive a Vibrio infection

    Article • Molecular Immunology, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  91. Genotyping as a Tool for Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in New Caledonia: Evidence of a Novel Genotype Associated with Reduced Penicillin Susceptibility

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2008, ASM Journals

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  92. Cross breeding of different domesticated lines as a simple way for genetic improvement in small aquaculture industries: Heterosis and inbreeding effects on growth and survival rates of the Pacific blue shrimp Penaeus (Litopenaeus) stylirostris

    Article • Aquaculture, June 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  93. Correlation between Detection of a Plasmid and High-Level Virulence of Vibrio nigripulchritudo, a Pathogen of the Shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 2008, ASM Journals

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  94. Combined effect of exposure to ammonia and hypoxia on the blue shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris survival and physiological response in relation to molt stage

    Article • Aquaculture, February 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  95. Émergence de maladies chez les organismes d’intérêt aquacole : quelques scénarios illustrés d’exemples

    Article • INRAE Productions Animales, September 2007, Universite de Bordeaux

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  96. Sequence polymorphism-based identification and quantification of Vibrio nigripulchritudo at the species and subspecies level targeting an emerging pathogen for cultured shrimp in New Caledonia

    Article • Journal of Microbiological Methods, July 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  97. Molecular epidemiology of Vibrio nigripulchritudo, a pathogen of cultured penaeid shrimp (Litopenaeus stylirostris) in New Caledonia

    Article • Systematic and Applied Microbiology, November 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  98. Quantification of Vibrio penaeicida, the etiological agent of Syndrome 93 in New Caledonian shrimp, by real-time PCR using SYBR Green I chemistry

    Article • Journal of Microbiological Methods, October 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  99. “Summer Syndrome” in Litopenaeus stylirostris in New Caledonia: Pathology and epidemiology of the etiological agent, Vibrio nigripulchritudo

    Article • Aquaculture, March 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  100. Influence of sediment characteristics on shrimp physiology: pH as principal effect

    Article • Aquaculture, October 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  101. Experimental infection models for shrimp vibriosis studies: a review

    Article • Aquaculture, November 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  102. A white spot disease-like syndrome in the Pacific blue shrimp (Litopenaeus stylirostris) as a form of bacterial shell disease

    Article • Aquaculture, March 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  103. Changes in Hemocyte Counts in Litopenaeus stylirostris Subjected to Sublethal Infection and to Vaccination

    Article • Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, March 2000, Wiley

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  104. Toxic factors of Vibrio strains pathogenic to shrimp

    Article • Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, January 2000, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  105. Arbitrarily Primed PCR To Type Vibrio spp. Pathogenic for Shrimp

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 1999, ASM Journals

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  106. Acquisition of susceptibility to Vibrio penaeicida in Penaeus stylirostris postlarvae and juveniles

    Article • Aquaculture, December 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant

  107. `Syndrome 93' in New Caledonian outdoor rearing ponds of Penaeus stylirostris: history and description of three major outbreaks

    Article • Aquaculture, May 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Cyrille Goarant