mosquito vectors
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2020.02.14
Leishmaniasis is a human and animal disease caused by parasites of the Leishmania genus that affects 12 million people worldwide. It is endemic in around a...
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2020.01.30
Jean-Philippe Chippaux is a hands-on guy. Throughout his career, he has contributed to the prevention and treatment of several neglected tropical diseases in a...
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2019.11.25
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur (Paris) have described the vector competence of the mosquito Aedes albopictus from south of France to different genotypes...
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2019.11.22
The Activity Report for the Pasteur Microbes and Health Carnot Institute has now been published. It looks back at the main activities carried out in 2018, in...
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2019.11.04
For the first time in mainland France, people have contracted the Zika virus. Unlike "imported" cases of the disease, reported by people returning from a trip...
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2019.11.05
In 2019, for the fifth year running, the Pasteur iGEM team took part in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition for the promotion...
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2018.10.04
Close to 70 different nationalities work alongside each other on the Institut Pasteur's Paris campus, and Anna-Bella has come all the way from Tahiti. She was...
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2018.09.04
You have no doubt already heard about emerging viruses. The international media regularly informs us about viruses raging across the world, for instance Zika,...
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2019.07.12
The first mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia, bacteria that prevent them from transmitting arboviruses (including dengue, Zika and chikungunya), were released on...
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2019.07.11
The Institut Pasteur is at the forefront of computational biology research. Scientists in the Evolutionary Bioinformatics Unit (part of Institut Pasteur and...