emerging viruses
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2019.01.28
With outbreaks in Angola in 2015 and Brazil in 2016, and cases detected in French Guiana in 2017 and even recently in Asia, where the virus had never...
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2019.01.28
Legionella pneumophila is an opportunistic human pathogen that is increasingly recognized as an important cause of both community and nosocomially acquired...
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2019.01.16
Animal diseases that infect humans are a major threat to human health, and diseases often spillover to humans from nonhuman primates. In 2018 the World Health...
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2019.01.02
As antibiotics efficacy is under real threat, the World Health Organization warns that "one day no antibiotics may be left to treat common bacterial infections...
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2018.11.22
What is CRISPR-CAS9? This system is used by bacteria to defend themselves against the viruses that attack them. But what are their technological applications?...
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2018.11.21
On November 15 and 16, 2018, the Institut Pasteur has welcomed nearly 400 scientists from all over the world to share their knowledge on the resistance of...
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2018.11.20
New therapeutic strategies are now crucial for combating microbial infections given the recurring threat of antibiotic resistance. A new approach involves...
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2018.11.15
For its third edition, the 2018 François Sommer "Humans and Nature" Prize has been awarded to the French Phage Network Réseau Bactériophage France, set up by...
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2018.10.23
The first laboratory at the Institut Pasteur de Guinée was officially opened on October 22, 2018. Based at Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry, the...
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2018.10.23
Three-dimensional spatial genome organization plays a fundamental role in gene expression regulation. However we do not know yet whether DNA viruses contact...