Bacteria
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2019.07.12
The first mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia, bacteria that prevent them from transmitting arboviruses (including dengue, Zika and chikungunya), were released on...
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2019.07.23
Extremophiles are organisms that have evolved to thrive under extremely harsh environmental conditions. Scientists have always been mystified by how these...
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2019.07.08
Microorganisms are constantly challenged by a variety of environmental stresses. In many bacteria, the stressosome, a key inducer of the stress response is a...
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2019.07.12
Research efforts in recent years have highlighted that sex - being a woman or a man - can have a strong influence on how humans and animals respond to many...
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2019.06.14
The National Library of France (BnF) has awarded the 2019 Pasteur Vallery-Radot Prize to Institut Pasteur scientists Guillaume Duménil and Rogerio Amino. The...
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2019.06.13
An observational study conducted in a French hospital showed that human contact was responsible for 90 percent of the spread of one species of antibiotic-...
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2019.06.06
Listeriosis is a severe foodborne infection that can cause septicemia, central nervous system infection or infection in fetuses and newborn infants. The...
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2019.05.23
An international research group has revealed several new bacterial species that may be responsible for leptospirosis, an emerging animal-borne disease, using...
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2019.05.06
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) can be responsible for severe cases of foodborne infection. In 10% of infected individuals, the spread of Shiga...
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2019.04.16
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Inserm have discovered that a key immune response is generated when solid food is introduced and microbiota expands....