Bacteria
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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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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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2022.05.23
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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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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2021.10.05
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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2022.11.29
Bacteria are prokaryotes, meaning that they are living organisms with no nucleus. As well as the DNA that enables them to live and develop, bacteria also...
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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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2023.01.12
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...