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News | 2020.11.26
Urinary tract infections: the mechanisms behind the lack of immune memory in many patients
Urinary tract infections (UTI) are a group of infectious diseases that predominantly impact healthy adult women, although they can also cause serious disease in men. They are the second most prevalent infection after respiratory infections*. The immune response to UTI is still not well-understood, and a better understanding could help lessen the use of antibiotics for this common infection....
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Article | 2020.11.12
Ullmann Class (2020-2023)
Promotion PPU 2020-2023Ph.D. StudentUndergraduate StudiesLaboratoryPhd DirectorLab headPhd ProjectDoctoral schoolPPU studentsAguirre Botero Manuela CamilleUniversity of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, GermanyMalaria Infection & ImmunityRogerio AminoRogerio AminoProtection mechanisms of antibodies targeting malaria sporozoitesBioSPC ED 562 Bio Sorbonne Paris CitéBoyko AlexandraFaculty of...
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Document de presse | 2020.11.16
Operation and reliability of RT-PCR tests in the detection of SARS-CoV-2
The National Reference Center (CNR) for Respiratory Viruses at the Institut Pasteur specializes in viruses such as influenza and bronchiolitis in infants. As an expert center in France, the CNR is responsible for monitoring cases of respiratory infections and for epidemic surveillance. When a new virus emerges, like the novel coronavirus in China, the CNR's task is to do everything it can to...
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News | 2020.11.18
Pneumococcal infections: KDM6B, a key epigenetic regulator in the cellular response
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have contributed to the discovery of a mechanism that regulates the response to pneumococcal infections between asymptomatic and severe forms. Pneumococci are bacteria that are naturally present in the human respiratory tract, but they are also one of the main causes of meningitis, pneumonia and acute otitis media. According to Santé publique France,1 the...
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News | 2020.11.20
Zika outbreaks fostered by virus-permissive mosquitoes
What factors facilitate the emergence of a previously unknown virus in the human population? Scientists from the CNRS, the Institut Pasteur and the IRD, in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur International Network and with several other institutions worldwide, have helped answer that question for the Zika virus. Their study sheds light on regional and continental disparities in Zika...
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Document de presse | 2021.03.07
COVID-19: neutralizing immune response lasts longer in women than in men
As part of the SEROCoV-HUS study, teams from Strasbourg University Hospital and the Institut Pasteur monitored 308 hospital staff who had previously contracted a mild form of SARS-CoV-2. The scientists demonstrated that neutralizing antibodies could be detected in 84% of them up to 6 months after infection, but that the level fell more quickly in men than in women. These results seem to suggest...
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News | 2020.11.24
Researchers from Hong-Kong University - Pasteur Research Pole and Institut Pasteur of New Caledonia are winners of the "Pasteur Network Talent Award" 2020.
«Pasteur Network Talent Awards» 2020 were presented on Thursday 19 November 2020 to Dr Sophie Valkenburg and Dr Roman Thibeaux by Pr Pierre-Marie Girard, Institut Pasteur vice-president international Affairs and by Prof. Stewart Cole, President of The Institut Pasteur.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these awards were presented by videoconference during the 52nd Council of Directors of the...
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News | 2020.11.24
Yellow fever: risk of virus transmission in the Asia-Pacific region
A study, the most comprehensive assessment of vector competence, shows that Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from the Asia-Pacific region are capable of transmitting yellow fever virus. This indicates that vector populations are seemingly not a brake to the emergence of yellow fever in the region.Viral pathogens with high epidemic potential have been historically a major concern for human health. Large-...
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News | 2020.11.26
Presbycusis: ultra-rare genetic mutations responsible for a quarter of cases occurring around the age of 50
Presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss, involves genetic and environmental factors. A genomic analysis can identify gene variants whose pathogenicity subsequently needs to be confirmed. As a general rule, frequent variants have little or very little effect; it is their cumulative impact in several genes that explains the impairment. Ultra-rare variants, on the other hand, have a strong impact...
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News | 2020.11.30
Report on the 52nd International Network Council of Directors meeting – lessons to be drawn from the COVID-19 pandemic in the International Network
The 52nd meeting of the Institut Pasteur International Network Council of Directors was held from November, 17 to 20. Because of the extraordinary events this year, the latest meeting took place entirely on a remote basis.The physical absence of the participants did not hinder the presentations, discussions and good humor of the meeting, which was greatly facilitated by simultaneous...
