meningitis
News
2020.02.13
When a bacterium invades a host, it seeks to proliferate by multiplying. Bacterial cell division is coordinated by several mechanisms including the synthesis...
News
2019.11.18
This awareness week on antibiotics (18-24 November 2019) is an opportunity to focus on the major public health challenge of antibiotic resistance and to...
Report
2019.10.04
During a press meeting at the Institut Pasteur on October 3, 2019, the Ensemble contre les méningites (Together against meningitis) association outlined its...
News
2019.08.28
The year 2018 has been exceptional in several ways. It was marked by the celebration of the 130th anniversary of the Institut Pasteur and the arrival of a new...
News
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...
News
2019.04.09
Frequent and major outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis have swept through countries in the "African meningitis belt", a region south of the Sahara that...
News
2019.01.22
Pneumococcal infections are still a global public health problem. Though striking, the seasonality of these infections remains a mystery for science....
Report
2018.10.24
Who hasn't taken antibiotics at least once in their lifetime? It is clear that these drugs, which combat a wide range of bacterial infections including...
News
2018.06.08
The Inserm team led by Guillaume Duménil at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with several teams of physicists, has unraveled a key stage in infection by...
Document de presse
2018.04.25
Patients with meningococcal infection generally develop symptoms including a high temperature, vomiting and a stiff neck... but they might also just have a bad...