Parasitology in France: some aspects of the present.
Numerous organizations participate and cooperate on parasitological research in France including the Institut national de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), the Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Institut Pasteur, the Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération (ORSTOMM), the Institut national de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), the Universities, the Collège de France, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) as well as various commercial firms. Exchanges and collaborations with foreign workers are continuous and essential to the success of research on tropical diseases. Here, in their own words, Odile Bain, Daniel Camus and Jacques Prod'hon highlight some aspects of current parasitological research in France.
Laboratoire des Vers, associé au CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, F 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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