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2022.01.11
L. pneumophila is a bacterial pathogen that causes a severe pneumonia called Legionellosis, which is often fatal when not treated promptly. In France,...
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2022.01.31
Infectious diarrhea represents a major public health problem at global level. Two forms of infectious diarrhea, shigellosis and bacillary dysentery, caused...
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2021.11.24
Within (nearly) all of our cells, 23 pairs of chromosomes, encapsulated in the cell nucleus, encode the workings of the body. The stability of this genetic...
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2022.04.28
How do we track the dynamics of a disease, particularly in terms of its response to vaccines? A study published in Science Translational Medicine provides...
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2022.05.20
New genetic analyses of Latin Americans have revealed numerous insights into how indigenous peoples evolved before European contact, and how their genetics...
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2022.05.23
Researchers from Institut Pasteur and its partners have demonstrated for the first time the transmission mechanisms of resistance to methicillin, an...
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2022.05.18
This 18 May 2022 is the centenary of the death of Alphonse Laveran, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and discoverer of the protozoan responsible for...
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2021.10.19
Although everyone knows about antibiotics, which we take to tackle bacterial infections, we tend not to realize that some bacteria are capable of producing...
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2022.02.16
Hospitals are on the front line in tackling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and are highly vulnerable to virus spread. In facilities providing follow-up and...
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2022.07.22
Most bacterial species have a huge variety of strains, and antibiotic resistance, virulence and potential for transmissibility all vary from one to the next...