bacterial species
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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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2023.06.06
The tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, is known to serve as the vector for several viruses that are pathogenic for humans. In mainland France, it was...
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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...
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2022.09.26
The acerola or Barbados cherry is a tropical fruit native to South America and also grown in the French West Indies and Réunion. It is not exported due to its...
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2023.01.12
Dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, Zika – these are all names of diseases that we have learned to fear, but we don't always understand how they might be...
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2023.06.06
This article is the first in a series devoted to the hopes of HIV-AIDS research, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the identification of the virus...
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2024.04.02
They are all investigating the microbiota, each in their own way. The five scientists speaking at the conference held at the Institut Pasteur on March 16,...
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2024.02.07
Bacteria have a fundamental need for certain rare nutrients such as metals, vitamins and certain sugars. Without these nutrients, the bacterium is deficient...
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2023.12.18
"We have now reached a point that the experts in the IPCC anticipated 50 years ago. The reality of climate change is no longer in doubt. The acceleration of...