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Fiche maladie | 2020.09.23
Meningococcal meningitis
Meningitis is an infection of the spinal cord and the brain membranes – or meninges –, caused by several types of virus, bacteria and fungi. Meningococci (another name for Neisseria meningitidis bacteria) are the main cause of acute meningitis. Despite treatment, meningococcal infections have a high mortality rate (10%) and considerable epidemic potential.
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Article | 2017.03.27
Advice for Professionals
This section is for notaries, legal professionals and asset management experts. This is where you will find helpful information to advise your clients and documentation that may prove useful if you are currently working with the Bequests department on an estate. Two dedicated websites are also available : one for the Conference on philanthropic trusts and one for the Think tank on philanthropic...
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Document de presse | 2024.11.08
The new face of “MAKE IT ICONIC. Choose France”, Professor Yasmine Belkaid embodies French boldness in the Government's international campaign
Professor Yasmine Belkaid, immunologist and President of the Institut Pasteur, has joined the international attractiveness campaign “MAKE IT ICONIC. Choose France*”, which aims to promote France's boldness and spirit of innovation, by showcasing the country's research, expertise, know-how and economic strength.A joint project between the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs’ Press and...
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Document de presse | 2025.01.31
IRD, DNDi, Institut Pasteur de Guinée and the Institut Pasteur welcome the WHO validation for the elimination of sleeping sickness in Guinea
Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem.Despite health crises such as the 2013-2015 Ebola epidemic and the SARS-Cov2 pandemic, combined medical and vector control strategies have enabled Guinea to reach the threshold of eliminating sleeping sickness as a public health problem (less than one case...
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Document de presse | 2011.02.20
Unsuspected immune arsenal in infants
While completely protected from any infectious germs in their mother’s womb, fetuses spontaneously develop, “in advance”, an immune defense system ready to react to the bacterial colonization of their digestive tract at birth. This surprising observation made by scientists at the Institut Pasteur and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) also shows that this...
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Document de presse | 2010.12.14
The brain: light-controlled neo-neurons
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur in association with the CNRS have just shown, in an experimental model, that newly formed neurons in the adult brain can be stimulated by light. A novel technique associating optical and genetic tools allows neurobiologists to render neo-neurons photo-excitable. For the first time they have prompted, observed, and specifically recorded the activity of...
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Document de presse | 2010.01.19
A DNA microarray to detect emerging viruses
Teams at the Institut Pasteur and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) have succeeded in developing a tool that uses DNA microarray technology which can detect the presence of a virus or a known bacterium, or one of their emerging variants, within 24 hours. When the influenza A (H1N1) virus emerged in April 2009, the research teams showed that this microarray could detect and...
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Document de presse | 2009.12.20
Biofilms: discovery of a new mechanism of virus propagation
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and CNRS have shown for the first time that certain viruses are capable of forming complex biofilm-like assemblies, similar to bacterial biofilms. These extracellular infectious structures may protect viruses from the immune system and enable them to spread efficiently from cell to cell. "Viral biofilms" would appear to be a major mechanism of...
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Document de presse | 2007.12.18
Buruli Ulcer: New possibilities for the prevention of the disease
The Buruli Ulcer is an extremely debilitating skin disease, in full emergence in West Africa. The first results of a case-control study of factors associates with the development underway in the endemic region by the Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, in collaboration with the researchers of many other teams, published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, confirm the presence of the already suspected...
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Document de presse | 2006.01.09
Identification of a new human genetic factor involved in susceptibility to tuberculosis
Teams from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS have just identified a new human genetic factor involved in susceptibility to tuberculosis. Researchers analysed the extent to which variability of the DC-SIGN gene could be involved in susceptibility to become sick after Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections, in a large South African population. They showed that a variant of this gene is over-...