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2024.09.18
Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can be severe or even fatal for vulnerable individuals, such as unvaccinated infants. People...
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2024.09.05
The estimated length of all the DNA in the human body, if it were unraveled and placed end to end, is 60 billion kilometers, or 400 times the distance from...
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2024.07.11
Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease transmitted by animals (a zoonosis). It is present worldwide, especially in tropical regions. The recent re-emergence of...
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2024.07.04
What precise mechanisms do coronaviruses use to infect us? More than four years after the infamous SARS-CoV-2 emerged in humans, many scientists are still...
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2024.06.25
The Institut Pasteur, an independent, non-profit international research institute, is the world leader in the research of viruses and micro-organisms, as...
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2024.05.30
In May 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its updated list of the main antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales...
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2022.08.05
RNA viruses, which include influenza viruses, SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19) and HIV, are one of the major threats that the immune system has to deal...
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2024.05.22
There is an urgent need to include monitoring of microbial ecosystems in the environmental narrative
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2024.05.21
Philippe Bousso was initially interested in science and technology and chose to study at the demanding and highly prestigious École Polytechnique. But once...
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2024.05.06
Between April and December 2022 in France, four pregnant women and one immunocompromised individual were infected with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, which...