Outbreak Investigation Task Force
News
2019.11.25
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur (Paris) have described the vector competence of the mosquito Aedes albopictus from south of France to different genotypes...
Report
2019.11.25
Disease outbreaks are unpredictable and often deadly. Wherever they occur on the planet, we are all potentially at risk: in our era of globalized air travel, a...
News
2019.11.07
We now know that neurodegenerative diseases are caused by the aggregation of "misfolded" proteins in the brain. These proteins, which are toxic for neurons,...
News
2019.11.04
For the first time in mainland France, people have contracted the Zika virus. Unlike "imported" cases of the disease, reported by people returning from a trip...
News
2019.10.15
The Yersinia genus covers a vast range of bacteria that are distinguished by criteria such as whether or not they are able to cause disease (their...
Document de presse
2019.10.03
Bacillary dysentery caused by the intestinal bacteria Shigella is a major health problem in tropical regions and developing countries. Complications from this...
News
2019.10.02
There is currently no vaccine for the Lassa arenavirus, which causes Lassa fever. This hemorrhagic fever, endemic in West Africa, infects up to 300,000 people...
Document de presse
2019.09.30
Pasteurdon, a major event that celebrates French research, is focusing on two central themes for its 2019 edition: antimicrobial resistance and cancer. These...
Portrait
2019.02.12
Ebola has battered the Democratic Republic of the Congo for many months, from the outbreak that ended in July 2018 to the epidemic currently raging. These are...
Portrait
2019.06.20
Thomas Gregor, biophysicist and elected EMBO member, set up his Physics of Biological Functions Unit at the Institut Pasteur (in Paris) and published three...