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Fiche maladie | 2017.10.11
Plague
Plague is still rife in Africa, Asia and America. It is considered as one of the world's re-emerging diseases and is subject to international regulations. WHO is reporting an increasing number of cases in some regions. During the 20th century, the use of antibiotic treatments and strengthening of public health measures significantly reduced morbidity and mortality from plague but were not able to...
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Article | 2018.03.28
ASIDE project: Surveillance and health alerts
In a context of increasing globalization of trade, the growth in international flows of travelers and goods fuels the spread of infectious diseases. The need for a global alert and response network for infectious diseases and public health emergencies of international concern led to the 2005 revision of the International Health Regulations (IHR). Coordinated by the Institut Pasteur, the...
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Article | 2022.05.30
Afroscreen Project : boosting variant surveillance in 13 african countries
The Agence française de développement (AFD) and ANRS | Maladies infectieuses émergentes, in partnership with the Institut Pasteur, IRD, and laboratories across 13 African countries, are launching the joint AFROSCREEN project. This project meets an urgent need for surveillance of the development of SARS-CoV-2 variants and other emerging pathogens by bolstering laboratory genomic sequencing...
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Document de presse | 2004.01.20
World Leprosy Day (25 January): The Institut Pasteur develops new diagnostic testsand epidemiological tools
According to the World Health Organisation, 2.8 million people throughout the world are infected with leprosy, and each year about 750,000 new cases are recorded. Since the leprosy bacillus genome was sequenced in 2001 by the team directed by Stewart Cole of the Institut Pasteur , important advances have been made. New diagnostic tests and epidemiological tools are currently being developed in...
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News | 2014.09.23
MOU between Institut Pasteur and Fondation Mérieux in response to the Ebola virus and other hemorrhagic fever disease in Western Africa
Fondation Mérieux and Institut Pasteur signed September 12, 2014 a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This MOU serves to set forth the areas of collaboration in response to the Ebola virus disease (EVD) and other hemorrhagic fever diseases in Western Africa through three ways: Deployment of a new mobile laboratory, dedicated to detection and identification of infectious diseases caused by risk...
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News | 2017.06.19
Drastic reduction of exposure to malaria in Senegal
In Senegal the prevalence of malaria declined from over 30% to less than 5% between the early 2000s and 2015 thanks to the implementation of preventive measures recommended by WHO such as Artemisinin-based combination therapy, rapid diagnosis and impregnated mosquito nets. What is the impact of these preventive measures on antimalarial immunity of populations?To answer this question, several...
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News | 2017.07.19
Pertussis : progress but lack of surveillance
Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, and which can be serious, or even fatal, for infants. Using a mathematical model, scientists from Honk Kong University and WHO have just published new estimates of the global weight of the disease. These new estimates indicate that the number of pertussis cases among children under 5 years of...
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News | 2017.08.18
Elisabeth Carniel appointed Director General of the Pasteur Center in Cameroon
Elisabeth Carniel is a researcher at the Institut Pasteur where she heads the Yersinia Research Unit (1). She is internationally renowned for her expertise on these enterobacteria, many of which are pathogenic to humans, including the agent responsible for plague.She is a trained physician and a specialist in tropical medicine. She began her career as a researcher in Bangladesh. Back in France,...
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News | 2018.03.14
Six institutions members of the Institut Pasteur international network engaged in an international coalition against epidemics in Africa
Today, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases poses a global health threat that can only be tackled through international collaborative efforts. This is all the more true in the African continent where recent outbreaks have highlighted the need to rapidly implement clinical studies in support of control efforts.To address this challenge, a new clinical research and response network has been...
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Article | 2020.01.09
International Courses – 2020
TITLEORGANIZERDURATION (Days) DATESCOURSE PLACEBactériologie et Santé PubliqueMagali LAGO/ Paul MARTIN1005/10 –16/10Institut Pasteur MarocProteome Analysis by Mass SpectrometryRosario DURAN1019/10 – 28/10Institut Pasteur MontevideoHKU-Pasteur Cell Biology CourseRoberto BRUZZONE721/11 – 27/11Centre de Recherche Université de Hong-Kong-PasteurData analysis using StataYoann MADEC618/05 – 23/...