The Institute, created thirty years ago, works on chronic diseases in tropical environments, particularly in Guadeloupe, in the Indian Ocean, and in Guyana with a study on toxoplasmosis.
Diseases are expressed differently in France and overseas. This is why the Institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology is working on a register of neurodegenerative pathologies, such as Parkinson’s disease, in Guadeloupe. Because a more precise knowledge of the health situation makes it possible to better adapt the care to the inhabitants. This is also the spirit of the Mascareignes project, with which the departments of Mayotte and Réunion are associated and which focuses on the consequences of aging populations in the region.
Toxoplasmosis, a disease transmitted mainly by cats, remains mild in France, while it can take severe forms in Guyana. The fault of the fwild elids of the Amazon rainforest. Explanations in the genetics laboratory, on the campus of the Center Hospitalier Universitaire de Limoges.