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2020.12.02
Before the vaccine era, diphtheria was the most deadly respiratory infection in young children. There are still outbreaks of diphtheria in some world regions...
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2020.11.18
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have contributed to the discovery of a mechanism that regulates the response to pneumococcal infections between...
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2020.10.27
The Institut Pasteur's outstanding collection of bacterial strains has played a key role in research at the University of California. The collection was used...
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2020.10.21
Between September 2018 and March 2019, a cholera epidemic took place in Zimbabwe, causing 10 000 cases and 69 deaths. The Enteric Bacterial Pathogens Unit at...
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2020.10.21
Thanks to the collection of cholera vibrio strains from the National Reference Centre for Vibrio and Cholera (hosted by the Enteric Bacterial Pathogens Unit at...
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...
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2020.07.24
A new endogenous viral element (EVE) has been identified in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. This EVE is almost identical to a contemporaneous strain of cell-fusing...
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2020.06.02
Klebsiella bacteria are responsible for some of the most antibiotic-resistant infections. A major study on intestinal colonization by Klebsiella has shed light...
Document de presse
2020.05.07
Current HIV treatments efficiently block viral multiplication but cannot cure infection as they do not target HIV infected cells. HIV cure or profound HIV...
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2020.04.14
Professor Philippe Sansonetti explains that a lockdown was needed because social distancing measures were not enough on their own. He goes on to outline the...