zika
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2017.05.10
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has teamed up with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the Calouste Gulbenkian...
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2017.05.05
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur (Paris) and Inserm* have successfully filmed the infection of human cells by the Zika virus, using video microscopy....
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2017.04.03
Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are a threat to public health, as we saw with SARS in 2003, the influenza (H1N1pdm09) pandemic in 2009, MERS-CoV...
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2017.03.30
“What is it about the 21st century that makes us so particularly vulnerable to epidemics?” This is the question asked by the documentary "Unseen Enemy",...
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2017.03.29
Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894), also known as the "tiger mosquito", originated in Southeast Asia. It can be recognized by the central line of white scales on...
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2017.03.02
Zika virus infection is usually asymptomatic or mild. However, it can sometimes lead to an autoimmune disease called Guillain-Barré syndrome. In rare patients...
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2017.02.01
As a leading biomedical research center in many fields of health, the Institut Pasteur also has an education center which contributes to the dissemination of...
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2017.01.05
On Friday December 9 this year, the 19 students* in the Pasteur iGEM 2016 team receive their awards at a ceremony that took place in the Institut Pasteur’s...
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2017.01.03
Since the first cases of infection were identified in Brazil, in May 2015, the Zika virus has spread to over 46 countries in America. Several hypothesis are...
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2016.12.29
The Institut Pasteur's Arboviruses and Insect Vectors Unit, led by Anna-Bella Failloux, working in cooperation with the Institut Pasteur International Network...