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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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2022.07.22
Most bacterial species have a huge variety of strains, and antibiotic resistance, virulence and potential for transmissibility all vary from one to the next...
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2021.12.21
Darwinian evolution plays a central yet poorly understood role in human disease. Iterations between genetic mutation and environmental selection drive cancer...
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2021.12.14
Listeria monocytogenes is a major human foodborne pathogen, associated with one of the highest medical and economic burdens. In addition, L. monocytogenes is...
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2021.12.07
For every movement you consciously decide to make, your brain must process information from many different sources before it puts its plan into action. This...
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2021.10.05
Antibiotic resistance is a major public health issue and an increasingly serious threat. Besides developing effective new drugs to fight single and multidrug...
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2023.02.06
Our intestine contains hundreds of billions of bacteria: this is the gut microbiota. Ilya Mechnikov had proposed that an imbalance between the different...
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2023.05.04
As the summer season approaches, the question of the effects of climate on pathogen transmission by mosquitoes inevitably arises. Scientists therefore...
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2023.06.20
On December 31, 2022, Santé publique France renewed its trust in the Institut Pasteur for its National Reference Centers (CNRs). Nineteen laboratories are...
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2022.07.08
Emerging infectious diseases result from contact between microbes and animals, with humans the most parasitized animal species. From the plague in Asia in 1894...