Vecteur Transmission
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2018.12.18
Entomology, the study of insects, is a long-standing tradition at the Institut Pasteur. Institut Pasteur scientist Alphonse Laveran was the first to describe...
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2018.10.17
Settled in Cayenne for 11 years, Claude Flamand heads the Epidemiology Unit at the Institut Pasteur de la Guyane. Since 2014, this epidemiologist and...
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2018.09.26
Since December 2016, Brazil has been grappling with its worst yellow fever outbreak for several decades. To date, there have been 2,043 human cases including...
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2018.09.07
Lyme borreliosis is a disease caused by bacteria of the genus Borrelia that are transmitted by a bite from a tick of the genus Ixodes. Scientists from the...
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2018.09.05
Primary immunodeficiencies cause immune system anomalies in those affected, preventing an optimal defense against pathogens. These diseases linked to genetic...
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2018.05.22
On Monday April 30, 2018, the French Ministry of Health announced that it was stepping up surveillance of the tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, which is now...
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2018.04.17
For many years, microbiota – all the microorganisms that colonize a host - has been the subject of intensive research in many multicellular organisms. The...
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2018.03.06
In 2013, the Zika virus, an arbovirus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, emerged in the Pacific Islands. In 2015, the first cases of infection are detected in...
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2018.02.14
Every year in the world, 4 million children die before the age of one, mainly in resource-limited countries, one-third of them due to a severe infection. The...
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2018.01.30
For almost a hundred years, geneticists have believed that the more a cell divides the more mutations it acquires. However, research by scientists at the...