List of works by Bernard La Scola

"Marseilleviridae", a new family of giant viruses infecting amoebae

scientific article

"Megavirales", a proposed new order for eukaryotic nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses

scientific article

"Tupanvirus", a new genus in the family Mimiviridae

scientific article published on 05 October 2018

A Brazilian Marseillevirus Is the Founding Member of a Lineage in Family Marseilleviridae

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

A Large Open Pangenome and a Small Core Genome for Giant Pandoraviruses

scientific article published in 2018

A New Zamilon-like Virophage Partial Genome Assembled from a Bioreactor Metagenome

scientific article

A Phylogenomic Study of Draft Genome Sequences Suggests Genetic Exchanges With Giant Viruses

scientific article published in 2018

A Rapid Strategy for the Isolation of New Faustoviruses from Environmental Samples Using Vermamoeba vermiformis

scientific article

A decade of improvements in Mimiviridae and Marseilleviridae isolation from amoeba

scientific article published on 17 October 2013

A giant virus in amoebae

scientific article (publication date: 28 March 2003)

A new asfarvirus infecting amoebas discovered in hematophagous arthropods and their vertebrate hosts

scientific article published on 01 August 2016

A novel alpha-Proteobacterium, Nordella oligomobilis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated by using amoebal co-cultures

scientific article

A resourceful giant: APMV is able to interfere with the human type I interferon system

scientific article published on December 2013

A virophage cross-species infection through mutant selection represses giant virus propagation, promoting host cell survival

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Acanthamoeba and mimivirus interactions: the role of amoebal encystment and the expansion of the 'Cheshire Cat' theory

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus and other giant viruses: an open field to outstanding discoveries

scientific article

Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus prevents amoebal encystment-mediating serine proteinase expression and circumvents cell encystment

scientific article published on 17 December 2014

Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus stability in environmental and clinical substrates: implications for virus detection and isolation

scientific article published on 03 February 2014

Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus virophage seroconversion in travelers returning from Laos

scientific article

Acinetobacter baumannii in human body louse

scientific article (publication date: September 2004)

Adenovirus Infections in African Humans and Wild Non-Human Primates: Great Diversity and Cross-Species Transmission

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Advances in Mimivirus pathogenicity

scientific article published on 15 June 2010

Advantages and Limits of Metagenomic Assembly and Binning of a Giant Virus

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Alcohol disinfection procedure for isolating giant viruses from contaminated samples

scientific article published on 17 October 2013

Ameba-associated Keratitis, France

scientific article published in July 2011

Ameba-associated microorganisms and diagnosis of nosocomial pneumonia

scientific article

Amebaborne "Attilina massiliensis" Keratitis, France

scientific article published in February 2018

Amoeba co-culture of soil specimens recovered 33 different bacteria, including four new species and Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article

Amoeba-resisting bacteria and ventilator-associated pneumonia

scientific article

Amoebae as battlefields for bacteria, giant viruses, and virophages

scientific article published on 6 February 2013

Amoebae-resisting bacteria isolated from human nasal swabs by amoebal coculture

scientific article

Amoebal coculture of "Mycobacterium massiliense" sp. nov. from the sputum of a patient with hemoptoic pneumonia

scientific article

Amoebas as mimivirus bunkers: increased resistance to UV light, heat and chemical biocides when viruses are carried by amoeba hosts

scientific article published on 26 November 2013

Analysis of a Marseillevirus Transcriptome Reveals Temporal Gene Expression Profile and Host Transcriptional Shift

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

Ancestrality and Mosaicism of Giant Viruses Supporting the Definition of the Fourth TRUC of Microbes

article by Philippe Colson et al published 2018 in Frontiers in Microbiology

Antibodies against Rickettsia spp. in hunters, Germany

scientific article published in December 2008

Antimicrobial activity of Actinomycetale isolated from the lagoon in Algeria

scientific article published in March 2015

Are clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa more virulent than hospital environmental isolates in amebal co-culture test?

scientific article

Atypical Cowpox Virus Infection in Smallpox-Vaccinated Patient, France

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Babela massiliensis, a representative of a widespread bacterial phylum with unusual adaptations to parasitism in amoebae

scientific article

Bacterial ventilator-associated pneumonia: bronchoalveolar lavage results are not influenced by dilution

scientific article published on 3 February 2009

Bartonella bovis in cattle in Africa

scientific article published on 15 December 2004

Bartonella clarridgeiae and B. henselae in dogs, Gabon

scientific article published on December 2004

Bartonella henselae in skin biopsy specimens of patients with cat-scratch disease

scientific article published on December 2010

Bartonella henselae is usually not viable in lymph nodes of patients with cat scratch disease

scientific article published on 2 July 2017

Bartonella quintana in human erythrocytes

scientific article

Bartonella rattaustraliani sp. nov., Bartonella queenslandensis sp. nov. and Bartonella coopersplainsensis sp. nov., identified in Australian rats

scientific article

Bosea eneae sp. nov., Bosea massiliensis sp. nov. and Bosea vestrisii sp. nov., isolated from hospital water supplies, and emendation of the genus Bosea (Das et al. 1996).

scientific article

Broad spectrum of mimiviridae virophage allows its isolation using a mimivirus reporter

scientific article published in 2013

Burden of emerging anaerobes in the MALDI-TOF and 16S rRNA gene sequencing era.

scientific article

Can Whipple's disease be transmitted by gastroscopes?

scientific article published in March 2003

Cedratvirus, a Double-Cork Structured Giant Virus, is a Distant Relative of Pithoviruses

scientific article

Chlorhexidine daily bathing: impact on health care-associated infections caused by gram-negative bacteria

scientific article published on 19 March 2015

Clandestinovirus: A Giant Virus With Chromatin Proteins and a Potential to Manipulate the Cell Cycle of Its Host <i>Vermamoeba vermiformis</i>

scientific article published on 10 August 2021

Clinical and microbiological effect of a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in 80 COVID-19 patients with at least a six-day follow up: A pilot observational study

scientific article published on 11 April 2020

Clinical significance of a positive serology for mimivirus in patients presenting a suspicion of ventilator-associated pneumonia.

scientific article

Clostridium Species Identification by 16S rRNA Pyrosequencing Metagenomics

scientific article published on 3 April 2016

Clostridium butyricum Strains and Dysbiosis Linked to Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Neonates

scientific article

Clustered cases of Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae infection, France

scientific article published in February 2013

Coculture at the crossroads of the new microbiology techniques for the isolation of strict intracellular bacteria

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Comparative Genomics Unveils Regionalized Evolution of the Faustovirus Genomes

scientific article published on 24 May 2020

Comparison between rpoB and 16S rRNA gene sequencing for molecular identification of 168 clinical isolates of Corynebacterium

scientific article published on April 2005

Comparison of a Modern and Fossil Pithovirus Reveals Its Genetic Conservation and Evolution

scientific article

Comparison of real-time quantitative PCR and culture for the diagnosis of emerging Rickettsioses

scientific article

Comparison of the in vitro efficacy of telithromycin (HMR 3647) and levofloxacin with 22 antibiotic compounds against Bosea and Afipia species

scientific article published on 3 March 2004

Complete Genome Sequence of Clostridium septicum Strain CSUR P1044, Isolated from the Human Gut Microbiota

scientific article

Complete genome sequence of Cannes 8 virus, a new member of the proposed family "Marseilleviridae".

scientific article published on 4 August 2013

Complete genome sequence of Courdo11 virus, a member of the family Mimiviridae

scientific article published on December 2013

Complete genome sequence of Tunisvirus, a new member of the proposed family Marseilleviridae

scientific article

Core gene-based molecular detection and identification of Acanthamoeba species

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Correction: Point of Care Strategy for Rapid Diagnosis of Novel A/H1N1 Influenza Virus

scientific article published on 27 April 2010

Corynebacterium species isolated from bone and joint infections identified by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis

scientific article

Culture and identification of a "Deltamicron" SARS-CoV-2 in a three cases cluster in southern France

scientific article published on 25 April 2022

Culture and immunological detection of Tropheryma whippelii from the duodenum of a patient with Whipple disease

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

Culture and phenotypic characterization of a Wolbachia pipientis isolate

scientific article

Culture of previously uncultured members of the human gut microbiota by culturomics

scientific article

Current laboratory diagnosis of Q fever

scientific article

Deciphering the genomes of 16 Acanthamoeba species does not provide evidence of integration of known giant virus-associated mobile genetic elements.

scientific article

Deciphering viral presences: two novel partial giant viruses detected in marine metagenome and in a mine drainage metagenome.

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Description of Afipia birgiae sp. nov. and Afipia massiliensis sp. nov. and recognition of Afipia felis genospecies A.

scientific article

Description of Tropheryma whipplei gen. nov., sp. nov., the Whipple's disease bacillus

scientific article (publication date: July 2001)

Description of Virulent Factors and Horizontal Gene Transfers of Keratitis-Associated Amoeba Acanthamoeba Triangularis by Genome Analysis

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Detection and culture of Bartonella quintana, Serratia marcescens, and Acinetobacter spp. from decontaminated human body lice

scientific article

Detection of Acinetobacter baumannii in human head and body lice from Ethiopia and identification of new genotypes

scientific article published on 6 July 2012

Detection of mimivirus genome and neutralizing antibodies in humans from Brazil

scientific article published on 30 June 2017

Detection of plant DNA in the bronchoalveolar lavage of patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia

scientific article

Developmental Cycle and Genome Analysis of "Rubidus massiliensis," a New Vermamoeba vermiformis Pathogen

scientific article

Developmental Cycle and Genome Analysis of Protochlamydia massiliensis sp. nov. a New Species in the Parachlamydiacae Family

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Diagnosis of Q fever using indirect microimmunofluorescence

scientific article

Direct identification of bacteria in positive blood culture bottles by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry

scientific article

Discovery and Further Studies on Giant Viruses at the IHU Mediterranee Infection That Modified the Perception of the Virosphere.

scientific article published on 30 March 2019

Draft Genome Sequence of Providencia heimbachae, Isolated from a Diabetic Foot Ulcer

scientific article (publication date: 14 April 2016)

Draft genome sequences of Terra1 and Terra2 viruses, new members of the family Mimiviridae isolated from soil

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Ectoparasitism and vector-borne diseases in 930 homeless people from Marseilles

scientific article published on January 2005

Editorial: Large and Giant DNA Viruses

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Emended description of Rickettsia felis (Bouyer et al. 2001), a temperature-dependent cultured bacterium

scientific article

Emergence in southern France of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant harbouring both N501Y and E484K substitutions in the spike protein

scientific article published on 18 February 2022

Emerging Mycobacteria spp. in cooling towers

scientific article published on January 2009

Enteroviruses from Humans and Great Apes in the Republic of Congo: Recombination within Enterovirus C Serotypes

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Epidemiologic Implications of the First Isolation and Cultivation ofTropheryma whippleiFrom a Saliva Sample

article by Bernard La Scola et al published 15 March 2011 in Annals of Internal Medicine

Escherichia coli Isolated from Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis: Clonal Diversity, Resistance Profile, Virulence Potential, and Genome Adaptation

scientific article published in 2021

Evaluation of Culture Top transport systems for assessing the bacterial diversity of microbiota by culturomics as compared to a routine transport system

scientific article published on 19 October 2021

Evidence of a Cellulosic Layer in Pandoravirus massiliensis Tegument and the Mystery of the Genetic Support of Its Biosynthesis

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Evidence of the megavirome in humans

scientific article

Evidence of transfer by conjugation of type IV secretion system genes between Bartonella species and Rhizobium radiobacter in amoeba

scientific article

Experimental Inoculation in Rats and Mice by the Giant Marseillevirus Leads to Long-Term Detection of Virus.

scientific article

Exploring the Microbiota of Diabetic Foot Infections With Culturomics

scholarly article by Joanne Jneid et al published 2018 in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

Expression of ACE2, Soluble ACE2, Angiotensin I, Angiotensin II and Angiotensin-(1-7) Is Modulated in COVID-19 Patients

scientific article published on 14 June 2021

Faustovirus E12 Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Complex Splicing in Capsid Gene

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Faustovirus, an asfarvirus-related new lineage of giant viruses infecting amoebae

scientific article

Faustovirus-Like Asfarvirus in Hematophagous Biting Midges and Their Vertebrate Hosts

scientific article

Faustoviruses: Comparative Genomics of New Megavirales Family Members

scientific article published on 05 February 2016

Filling Knowledge Gaps for Mimivirus Entry, Uncoating, and Morphogenesis

scientific article published on 6 September 2017

First cases of infection with the 21L/BA.2 Omicron variant in Marseille, France

publication published on 24 March 2022

First evidence of host range expansion in virophages and its potential impact on giant viruses and host cells

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

First isolation of Mimivirus in a patient with pneumonia

scientific article

First isolation of Tropheryma whipplei from bronchoalveolar fluid and clinical implications

article by Florence Fenollar et al published September 2012 in Journal of Infection

First isolation of a Marseillevirus in the Diptera Syrphidae Eristalis tenax

scientific article

First isolation of a giant virus from wild Hirudo medicinalis leech: Mimiviridae isolation in Hirudo medicinalis

scientific article

Flow Cytometry Sorting to Separate Viable Giant Viruses from Amoeba Co-culture Supernatants

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Full-length title: Early treatment of COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin: A retrospective analysis of 1061 cases in Marseille, France

scientific article published on 05 May 2020

Gene-sequence-based criteria for species definition in bacteriology: the Bartonella paradigm

scientific article

Generation of Infectious Mimivirus Virions Through Inoculation of Viral DNA Within <i>Acanthamoeba castellanii</i> Shows Involvement of Five Proteins, Essentially Uncharacterized

scientific article published on 09 July 2021

Genome Characterization of the First Mimiviruses of Lineage C Isolated in Brazil

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Genome Sequence of Afipia felis Strain 76713, Isolated in Hospital Water Using an Amoeba Co-Culture Procedure

scientific article published on 24 December 2014

Genome Sequence of Legionella anisa, Isolated from a Respiratory Sample, Using an Amoebal Coculture Procedure

scientific article published on 27 February 2014

Genome Sequence of Legionella massiliensis, Isolated from a Cooling Tower Water Sample

scientific article published on 16 October 2014

Genome Sequence of a Clostridium neonatale Strain Isolated in a Canadian Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Genome Sequences of New Faustovirus Strains ST1 and LC9, Isolated from the South of France

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Genome sequence of Afipia birgiae, a rare bacterium associated with Amoebae

scientific article

Genome sequence of Legionella tunisiensis strain LegM(T), a new Legionella species isolated from hypersaline lake water

scientific article published on November 2012

Genome sequence of Reyranella massiliensis, a bacterium associated with amoebae

scientific article

Genome sequence of Rickettsia bellii illuminates the role of amoebae in gene exchanges between intracellular pathogens

scientific article

Genome-based design of a cell-free culture medium for Tropheryma whipplei.

scientific article published in August 2003

Genomic Insights into a New Citrobacter koseri Strain Revealed Gene Exchanges with the Virulence-Associated Yersinia pestis pPCP1 Plasmid

scientific article published on 16 March 2016

Genomic analysis of a Raoultella ornithinolytica strain causing prosthetic joint infection in an immunocompetent patient.

scientific article published on 21 June 2018

Genotypic characteristics of two serotypes of Bartonella henselae

scientific article

Genotyping reveals a wide heterogeneity of Tropheryma whipplei.

scientific article

Giant Marseillevirus highlights the role of amoebae as a melting pot in emergence of chimeric microorganisms

scientific article

Giant Viruses of Amoebae: A Journey Through Innovative Research and Paradigm Changes

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

Giant Viruses of Amoebas: An Update

scientific article

Giant virus vs amoeba: fight for supremacy

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Giant viruses of amoebae as potential human pathogens

scientific article published on 17 October 2013

Growing a giant: evaluation of the virological parameters for mimivirus production

scientific article published on 24 June 2014

Guarani Virophage, a New Sputnik-Like Isolate From a Brazilian Lake

article

Gut microbiota and the pathogenesis of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm neonates

scientific article published on 8 February 2016

Health-care-associated bloodstream infections in France

scientific article published in August 2013

High Content Screening, a reliable system for Coxiella burnetii isolation from clinical samples

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

High positivity of mimivirus in inanimate surfaces of a hospital respiratory-isolation facility, Brazil

scientific article published on 11 March 2015

High speed large scale automated isolation of SARS-CoV-2 from clinical samples using miniaturized co-culture coupled with high content screening

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

High-Throughput Isolation of Giant Viruses in Liquid Medium Using Automated Flow Cytometry and Fluorescence Staining

scientific article published on 29 January 2016

High-throughput isolation of giant viruses of the Mimiviridae and Marseilleviridae families in the Tunisian environment

scientific article

High-throughput isolation of giant viruses using high-content screening.

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Human Infection with Orf Virus and Description of Its Whole Genome, France, 2017

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Human infection caused by Leptospira fainei

scientific article published on August 2002

Human metallo-β-lactamase enzymes degrade penicillin

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID‐19: results of an open‐label non‐randomized clinical trial

COVID19 related scientific article describing effective therapy

Hydroxychloroquine susceptibility determination of Coxiella burnetii in human embryonic lung (HEL) fibroblast cells

scientific article published on 3 May 2017

Identification of Legionella feeleii cellulitis

scientific article published on January 2011

Identification of Novel Zoonotic Activity of Bartonella spp., France

scientific article published on March 2016

Identification of giant Mimivirus protein functions using RNA interference

scientific article

Imported Brucellosis associated with Plasmodium falciparum malaria in a traveler returning from the tropics

scientific article

Improving the identification of anaerobes in the clinical microbiology laboratory through MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry

scientific article

In Vitro Antiviral Activity of Doxycycline against SARS-CoV-2

scientific article published on 31 October 2020

In vitro testing of combined hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin on SARS-CoV-2 shows synergistic effect

scientific article published on 25 April 2020

In-depth analysis of the replication cycle of Orpheovirus

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Influence of long time storage in mineral water on RNA stability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli after heat inactivation

scientific article

Insight into the Lifestyle of Amoeba Willaertia magna during Bioreactor Growth Using Transcriptomics and Proteomics

scientific article published on 21 May 2020

Insights into bacterial colonization of intensive care patients' skin: the effect of chlorhexidine daily bathing

scientific article published on 22 January 2015

Intact cell MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry-based approaches for the diagnosis of bloodstream infections.

scientific article

Investigation of potential pathogenicity of Willaertia magna by investigating the transfer of bacteria pathogenicity genes into its genome

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Isolation and characterization of Campylobacter massiliensis sp. nov., a novel Campylobacter species detected in a gingivitis subject

scientific article published in 2021

Isolation and characterization of Reyranella massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov. from freshwater samples by using an amoeba co-culture procedure

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Isolation and description of Selenomonas timonae sp. nov., a novel Selenomonas species detected in a gingivitis patient

scientific article published in 2021

Isolation and genomic characterization of a new mimivirus of lineage B from a Brazilian river

scientific article published on 12 February 2020

Isolation and identification of Legionella spp. from hot spring water in Algeria by culture and molecular methods

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Isolation and identification of amoeba-resisting bacteria from water in human environment by using an Acanthamoeba polyphaga co-culture procedure.

scientific article

Isolation of Bartonella rattimassiliensis sp. nov. and Bartonella phoceensis sp. nov. from European Rattus norvegicus

scientific article

Isolation of Vermamoeba vermiformis and associated bacteria in hospital water

scientific article

Isolation of Yasminevirus, the First Member of Klosneuvirinae Isolated in Coculture with Vermamoeba vermiformis, Demonstrates an Extended Arsenal of Translational Apparatus Components

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

Isolation of new Brazilian giant viruses from environmental samples using a panel of protozoa

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Kaumoebavirus, a New Virus That Clusters with Faustoviruses and Asfarviridae

scientific article published on 28 October 2016

Laboratory diagnosis of leptospirosis: a challenge

scientific article published on 29 April 2013

Lack of Bartonella sp. in 167 Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in central Sweden.

scientific article

Legionella and Q fever community acquired pneumonia in children

scientific article published on January 2004

Legionella drancourtii sp. nov., a strictly intracellular amoebal pathogen

scientific article

Legionella saoudiensis sp. nov., isolated from a sewage water sample

scientific article

Legionella tunisiensis sp. nov. and Legionella massiliensis sp. nov., isolated from environmental water samples

scientific article

Leptotrichia amnionii and the female reproductive tract

scientific article published on November 2004

Letter to the editor: Plenty of coronaviruses but no SARS-CoV-2

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Likely correlation between sources of information and acceptability of A/H1N1 swine-origin influenza virus vaccine in Marseille, France

scientific article

Looking at protists as a source of pathogenic viruses

scientific article published on 12 September 2014

MALDI-TOF-mass spectrometry applications in clinical microbiology

scientific article

MG-Digger: An Automated Pipeline to Search for Giant Virus-Related Sequences in Metagenomes

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

MIMIVIRE is a defence system in mimivirus that confers resistance to virophage

scientific article

Many More Microbes in Humans: Enlarging the Microbiome Repertoire

scientific article published on August 2017

Massilia timonae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from blood of an immunocompromised patient with cerebellar lesions

scientific article

Metagenomic Analysis of Microdissected Valvular Tissue for Etiologic Diagnosis of Blood Culture Negative Endocarditis

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Metagenomic binning reconstruction coupled with automatic pipeline annotation and giant viruses: A potential source of mistake in annotations

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

Methods for culturing anaerobes from human specimen

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

Microbial culturomics: paradigm shift in the human gut microbiome study

scientific article (publication date: December 2012)

Microbial diversity in the sputum of a cystic fibrosis patient studied with 16S rDNA pyrosequencing

scientific article published on 16 May 2009

Microbiogical data, but not procalcitonin improve the accuracy of the clinical pulmonary infection score

scientific article

Microscopic Analysis of the Cycle in

scientific article published in 2019

Mimivirus Fibrils Are Important for Viral Attachment to the Microbial World by a Diverse Glycoside Interaction Repertoire

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Mimivirus circulation among wild and domestic mammals, Amazon Region, Brazil

scientific article published on March 2014

Mimivirus in pneumonia patients

scientific article

Mimivirus in the urine of a kidney-transplant recipient

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

Mimivirus shows dramatic genome reduction after intraamoebal culture

scientific article

Mimivirus: leading the way in the discovery of giant viruses of amoebae

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Mimiviruses: Replication, Purification, and Quantification

scientific article

Modern clinical microbiology: new challenges and solutions

scientific article

Modulation of the expression of mimivirus-encoded translation-related genes in response to nutrient availability during Acanthamoeba castellanii infection

scientific article

Molecular identification of Borrelia crocidurae in a patient returning from Senegal

scientific article published on 20 February 2009

Molecular strategy for the diagnosis of infectious lymphadenitis.

scientific article

Monoclonal antibodies to immunodominant epitope of Tropheryma whipplei

scientific article

Morphologic and genomic analyses of new isolates reveal a second lineage of cedratviruses.

scientific article

Multi-pathogens sequence containing plasmids as positive controls for universal detection of potential agents of bioterrorism

scientific article

Multidisciplinary evaluation of Clostridium butyricum clonality isolated from preterm neonates with necrotizing enterocolitis in South France between 2009 and 2017

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Naming microorganisms: the contribution of the IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France

article

Nanobacteria are mineralo fetuin complexes

scientific article published on 8 February 2008

Niemeyer Virus: A New Mimivirus Group A Isolate Harboring a Set of Duplicated Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Genes

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

Non-contiguous finished genome sequence and description of Anaerococcus pacaensis sp. nov., a new species of anaerobic bacterium

scientific article

Non-contiguous finished genome sequence and description of Anaerococcus provenciensis sp. nov.

scientific article

Non-contiguous finished genome sequence and description of Bacteroides neonati sp. nov., a new species of anaerobic bacterium

scientific article

Non-contiguous finished genome sequence and description of Fenollaria massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus of anaerobic bacterium

scientific article

Nucleic acids as viability markers for bacteria detection using molecular tools.

scientific article published on February 2009

Ongoing revolution in bacteriology: routine identification of bacteria by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

scientific article (publication date: 15 August 2009)

Orpheovirus IHUMI-LCC2: A New Virus among the Giant Viruses

scientific article published in January 2017

Oysters as hot spots for mimivirus isolation

scientific article published on 26 October 2014

PCR Detection of Mimivirus

scientific article

Pacmanvirus, a New Giant Icosahedral Virus at the Crossroads between Asfarviridae and Faustoviruses

scientific article published on 26 April 2017

Pan-Genome Analysis of Brazilian Lineage A Amoebal Mimiviruses

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Parachlamydia acanthamoeba is endosymbiotic or lytic for Acanthamoeba polyphaga depending on the incubation temperature

scientific article published on June 2003

PartialrpoBgene sequencing for identification ofLeptospiraspecies

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Patients in the intensive care unit are exposed to amoeba-associated pathogens

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Persistence of DNA in a cured patient and positive culture in cases with low antibody levels bring into question diagnosis of Q fever endocarditis

scientific article published on 12 July 2013

Phylogenetic and phyletic studies of informational genes in genomes highlight existence of a 4 domain of life including giant viruses

scientific article

Pneumonia in mice inoculated experimentally with Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus

scholarly article by Mohammad Khan et al published February 2007 in Microbial Pathogenesis

Pneumonia pathogen detection and microbial interactions in polymicrobial episodes

scientific article published on May 2013

Point of care strategy for rapid diagnosis of novel A/H1N1 influenza virus

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Point of care strategy for rapid diagnosis of novel A/H1N1 influenza virus.

scientific article

Potentially pathogenic amoeba-associated microorganisms in cooling towers and their control

scientific article published on June 2009

Prediction of rickettsial skin eschars in humans using an experimental guinea pig model

article

Production of monoclonal antibodies to Tropheryma whipplei and identification of recognized epitopes by two-dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry

scientific article

Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 RNA virus shedding and lymphopenia are hallmarks of COVID-19 in cancer patients with poor prognosis

scientific article published on 06 July 2021

Promoter Motifs in NCLDVs: An Evolutionary Perspective

scientific article published on 20 January 2017

Protein candidates for Q fever serodiagnosis

scientific article published on 14 December 2011

Protein candidates for the serodiagnosis of rickettsioses

scientific article published on 8 December 2011

Proteomics and Lipidomics Investigations to Decipher the Behavior of Willaertia magna C2c Maky According to Different Culture Modes

scientific article published on 16 November 2020

Protochlamydia phocaeensis sp. nov., a new Chlamydiales species with host dependent replication cycle

scientific article

Provirophages and transpovirons as the diverse mobilome of giant viruses

scientific article

Rapid comparative genomic analysis for clinical microbiology: the Francisella tularensis paradigm

scientific article published on 11 April 2008

Rapid viral diagnosis and ambulatory management of suspected COVID-19 cases presenting at the infectious diseases referral hospital in Marseille, France, - January 31st to March 1st, 2020: A respiratory virus snapshot

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Real-time PCR systems targeting giant viruses of amoebae and their virophages

scientific article published on 17 October 2013

Related giant viruses in distant locations and different habitats: Acanthamoeba polyphaga moumouvirus represents a third lineage of the Mimiviridae that is close to the megavirus lineage

scientific article published on January 2012

Repertoire of intensive care unit pneumonia microbiota

scientific article

Report of two fatal cases of Mycobacterium mucogenicum central nervous system infection in immunocompetent patients

scientific article published on March 2006

Revolutionizing clinical microbiology laboratory organization in hospitals with in situ point-of-care

scientific article

Role of the R349 Gene and Its Repeats in the MIMIVIRE Defense System.

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Routine use of Staphylococcus aureus rapid diagnostic test in patients with suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia

scientific article published on 6 August 2013

SARS-CoV-2 variant from India to Marseille: The still active role of ports in the introduction of epidemics

scientific article published on 21 May 2021

Samba virus: a novel mimivirus from a giant rain forest, the Brazilian Amazon

scientific article published on 14 May 2014

Saudi Moumouvirus, the First Group B Mimivirus Isolated from Asia

scientific article published on 20 December 2016

Searching for Bacillus anthracis in suspect powders: a French experience

scientific article published on January 2003

Sequencing of the rpoB gene and flanking spacers for molecular identification of Acinetobacter species

scientific article published in March 2006

Serologic prevalence of amoeba-associated microorganisms in intensive care unit pneumonia patients

scientific article

Serological hint suggesting that Parachlamydiaceae are agents of pneumonia in polytraumatized intensive care patients

scientific article published on June 2003

Shan virus: a new mimivirus isolated from the stool of a Tunisian patient with pneumonia

scientific article published on 17 October 2013

Shell vial cell culture as a tool for Streptobacillus moniliformis "resuscitation".

scientific article

Single Cell Micro-aspiration as an Alternative Strategy to Fluorescence-activated Cell Sorting for Giant Virus Mixture Separation

scientific article published on 27 October 2019

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The multiple origins of proteins present in tupanvirus particles

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The rhizome of the multidrug-resistant Enterobacter aerogenes genome reveals how new "killer bugs" are created because of a sympatric lifestyle

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The role of giant viruses of amoebas in humans

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The structure of a virus-encoded nucleosome

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The virophage as a unique parasite of the giant mimivirus

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Time to intubation is associated with outcome in patients with community-acquired pneumonia

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Ultrastructural characterization of the giant volcano-like virus factory of Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus

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Unique clone of Coxiella burnetii causing severe Q fever, French Guiana

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Updating strategies for isolating and discovering giant viruses

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Usefulness of rpoB gene sequencing for identification of Afipia and Bosea species, including a strategy for choosing discriminative partial sequences

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Validation of partial rpoB gene sequence analysis for the identification of clinically important and emerging Acinetobacter species

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Viral RNA load as determined by cell culture as a management tool for discharge of SARS-CoV-2 patients from infectious disease wards

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Virucidal activity of chemical biocides against mimivirus, a putative pneumonia agent

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Viruses with more than 1,000 genes: Mamavirus, a new Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus strain, and reannotation of Mimivirus genes

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