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News | 2025.03.20
An international scientific alliance to strengthen the fight against infectious diseases
The Institut Pasteur and UCSF-QBI celebrated an ongoing successful scientific collaboration today, which was initiated in March 2019, and expanded significantly during the pandemic. This alliance, formalized in October 2022, aimed at bolstering the fight against infectious diseases, has already spawned more than 20 research projects, a dozen publications in high-level journals, and numerous...
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Fiche maladie | 2015.10.06
Sepsis / Septicemia
Sepsis is the term used internationally to describe a widespread inflammatory response that occurs as a result of severe infection. Septicemia, the term coined in 1837 by French doctor Pierre Piorry from the Greek words "σήψις" (sêptikós), putrefaction, and "αίμα" (haîma), blood, refers to the presence of bacteria (or fungi or viruses) in the blood. Sepsis primarily affects people with weak...
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Fiche maladie | 2015.10.06
Whooping cough (pertussis)
Whooping cough, long thought of as a childhood illness, can be severe at any age. This bacterial infection is particularly dangerous, and sometimes even fatal, for unvaccinated or partially vaccinated infants and at-risk individuals such as pregnant women and elderly people.
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CNR/CCOMS | 2019.11.07
Legal Documents CRBIP
For humanCSPCode de la santé publique, articles L 1121-1 et suivants (loi) et R 1121-1 et suivants (règlements). - Noter : sur Légifrance, visualiser le texte du CSP en vérifiant la date de vigueur (« texte en vigueur à (telle date) ») qui peut être modifiée pour voir l'état du droit à telle date passée ou à venir.(Noter : Lorsqu'elle est « codifiée », i.e. tronsformée en articles d'un code - ici...
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Document de presse | 2020.01.31
Institut Pasteur isolates strains of coronavirus 2019-nCoV detected in France
As well as sequencing the whole genome of coronavirus 2019-nCoV, the Institut Pasteur continued to work on the samples taken from the first confirmed cases. The quality of these initial samples enabled rapid cell-culture isolation of the new virus. The Institut Pasteur's scientists now have access to the virus responsible for the infection. The isolation of the virus paves the way for new...
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News | 2021.07.09
The Institut Pasteur International Network is evolving and becoming the Pasteur Network
A new system of governance is being introduced for the Institut Pasteur International Network and its 33 members, which since 2011 have been part of the Pasteur International Network association, which was chaired by the Institut Pasteur President Stewart Cole. Ten years on, the Network is adopting a more participatory, balanced mode of governance and a more structured business model. The...
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Document de presse | 2022.01.24
Pierre Buffet appointed as Medical Director of the Institut Pasteur
Professor Pierre Buffet has been appointed as Medical Director of the Institut Pasteur. Pierre Buffet took up his post on January 3, 2022 within the Institut Pasteur's Department of Scientific Affairs. Professor Pierre Buffet has been appointed as Medical Director within the Institut Pasteur's Department of Scientific Affairs, led by Senior Executive Scientific Vice-President Christophe d'...
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Document de presse | 2022.04.20
When severe infection causes long-term mood disorders: A promising avenue to prevent mental illness following a transient infection
The brain is able to detect and regulate localized or systemic inflammation by using two communication pathways. The first, humoral, makes use of specific brain structures that enable circulating inflammatory mediators to enter the brain. The second, neural, involves nerves whose sensory afferents transmit the inflammatory signal detected at local level. The vagus nerve therefore uses identified...
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Document de presse | 2022.07.21
SARS-CoV-2 hijacks nanotubes between neurons to infect them
COVID-19 often leads to neurological symptoms, such as a loss of taste or smell, or cognitive impairments (including memory loss and concentration difficulties), both during the acute phase of the disease and over the long term with "long COVID" syndrome. But the way in which the infection reaches the brain was previously unknown. Scientists from Institut Pasteur and CNRS laboratories have used...
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News | 2023.02.28
Health crises, information crises: exploring the roots of the term "infodemic"
How do the epidemiological and media dimensions of a health crisis fit together? How is the spread of a virus linked to the spread of information about it? Several scientists, communication experts and ethics specialists came together to explore these questions at a conference held at the Institut Pasteur in December.
