Epidemiology
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2021.05.31
Diphtheria is a severe infection caused in humans by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria. If left untreated, it leads to death in 5 to 25...
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2021.05.20
Rabies is still responsible for approximately 60,000 deaths in humans each year. The bat-borne virus EBL1a, related to rabies, rarely affects humans, but a...
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2020.10.16
Hantaviruses are rodent-borne viruses causing serious zoonotic outbreaks worldwide for which no treatment is available. X-ray structures of the hantavirus...
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2020.07.09
Diagnosis of sleeping sickness, a neglected tropical disease caused by African trypanosomes, relies on the detection of parasites in blood. Following their...
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2021.05.03
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Emerging and re-emerging viruses are key players among the different pathogens that have caused recent epidemics, as attested by several...
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2021.05.05
Malaria remains a major public health burden in some world regions. In 2018, 237,000 cases were reported in Brazil, 91.5% of them caused by the parasite...
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2021.03.30
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and increasingly rapidly thereafter, the Institut Pasteur International Network has drawn heavily on all its...
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2021.04.06
In all adult vertebrates, neural stem cells can be recruited to produce new neurons in the brain. However, little is known about these so-called "activation"...
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2021.03.08
Tuberculosis is one of the most deadly infectious diseases in the world, and it is the most deadly disease in Europe's history. It is generally caused by the...
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2021.01.25
Since early 2020, the Institut Pasteur has been engaged in research in several of its areas of scientific expertise, including virology, diagnostics,...