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2020.09.23
Although the lockdown introduced in spring 2020 undoubtedly slowed down the circulation of the coronavirus, it also had an impact on other communicable...
Document de presse
2020.09.10
Epidemiological theory teaches us that a microbial agent introduced into a population stops circulating when the proportion of the population that is immune to...
Document de presse
2020.04.24
Approximately four months after the initial description of cases of atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, COVID-19 had become a major pandemic...
Document de presse
2020.07.27
Resistance to artemisinin, the main component of the current antimalarial treatments recommended by WHO, is already widespread in South-East Asia, but it had...
Document de presse
2020.07.15
Which patients will develop a severe form of Covid-19? This is a key question that needs to be answered to improve the individual management and prognosis of...
Document de presse
2020.07.06
Every winter, seasonal coronaviruses are responsible for repeated colds and bronchitis from early childhood onwards. The question of whether the four seasonal...
News
2020.07.09
The African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is a parasite responsible for chronic Human African Trypanosomiasis, more commonly known as sleeping...
News
2020.07.06
Infections in humans caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) represent a major public health problem. Despite the availability of effective protective vaccines,...
News
2020.06.24
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, the Institut Pasteur and their clinical collaborators have identified a cause of testicular tissue developing in...
Document de presse
2020.06.23
COVID-19 in primary schools: no significant transmission among children or from students to teachers
In late April 2020, scientists at the Institut Pasteur, with the support of the Hauts-de-France Regional Health Agency and the Amiens Education Authority,...