Vecteur Transmission
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2018.12.21
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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2018.10.02
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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2018.07.18
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a retrovirologist, laureate of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery of HIV (with Luc Montagnier) and President of the...
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2018.07.12
The Institut Pasteur has just inaugurated the installation of a new electron microscope equipped with extraordinary capabilities: the new Titan Krios™. The...
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2018.07.10
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm, Sorbonne University and the Collège de France, working in close collaboration with scientists from the University...
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2018.07.06
In 2017, the European Commission gave its go-ahead to Infravec2, the EU-funded global source for no-cost vector research products and services. In June, 2018,...
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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...