Sonia Etenna Lekana-Douki
International Center of Medical Research of Franceville (CIRMF), Gabon
Biography
Sonia Etenna Lekana-Douki is a Researcher, Co-Head of the Unit of Emergence of Viral Diseases in the Department of Virology, in the International Center of Medical Research of Franceville (CIRMF), Gabon. She has completed her DEA (Master) from Faculty of Chatenay-Malabry, University Paris-Sud (Paris XI), France in 2000. After working at a research engineer at CIRMF, she has completed her PhD from the University of Montpellier II in 2013, on the viral etiology of influenza-like illness among adults and children and diarrheal syndrome among children in Gabon. Her researches are focusing on diagnosis of infectious diseases and syndromic surveillance such as influenza-like illness, respiratory syndrome, diseases associated with arbovirus and diarrheal syndrome in children. She has published 13 papers, Head of the sequencing platform; she participates in various studies of the Department of Virology by genotyping the viruses diagnosed in the syndromic surveillance.