plasmid
Document de presse
2023.03.15
Shigellosis, a highly contagious diarrheal disease, is caused by Shigella bacteria circulating in industrializing countries but also in industrialized...
News
2022.11.29
Bacteria are prokaryotes, meaning that they are living organisms with no nucleus. As well as the DNA that enables them to live and develop, bacteria also...
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2022.11.02
Physical forces are essential to biological function, but their impact at the tissue level is not fully understood. The gut is under continuous mechanical...
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2022.01.18
In a recently published study, scientists from the Institut Pasteur and its partners analyzed the genome of more than 700 strains of Escherichia coli bacteria...
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2021.12.17
Six young graduates from the Pasteur Network members, outside of the Institut Pasteur, were honored at the Institut Pasteur's PhD Graduation Ceremony on...
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2020.12.02
Before the vaccine era, diphtheria was the most deadly respiratory infection in young children. There are still outbreaks of diphtheria in some world regions...
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2020.10.21
Between September 2018 and March 2019, a cholera epidemic took place in Zimbabwe, causing 10 000 cases and 69 deaths. The Enteric Bacterial Pathogens Unit at...
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2019.02.05
Microbes are the most common and diverse organisms on the planet. In recent years, researchers have accumulated data about them, particularly with respect to...
Document de presse
2017.11.30
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have retrospectively identified early cases of Salmonella resistance to ampicillin, a broad-spectrum antibiotic that is...
News
2016.04.28
Bacterial genomes generally contain a single chromosome and one or more extrachromosal elements such as plasmids. The initiation of bacterial chromosome...