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Article | 2017.08.23
Communication Tools
IPIN’s mapDownload IPIN 2020 logo: the Network Alliance around a new "φ" siognomy to show strength, modernity, cooperation and unfailing mobilization. In its desire to modernize its image and strengthen its influence in France and abroad, the Institute Pasteur has changed its image through a new logo inaugurated at the end of February. The International Department...
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News | 2017.08.23
The Institut Pasteur in French Guiana confirms a case of yellow fever
The arboviruses National Reference Center at the Institut Pasteur in French Guiana confirmed a case of infection with yellow fever virus in the guyanese territory. The last case of yellow fever diagnosed in French Guiana, already identified by the Institut Pasteur, dates back to 1998.According to the Regional Health Agency, the patient who died on August 9 at the hospital in Cayenne had a history...
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News | 2017.08.23
The 49th Institut Pasteur International Network's Directors Council will be held in Abidjan
The Institut Pasteur in Côte d'Ivoire will organize, in coordination with the Department of international Affairs of the Institut Pasteur, the Institut Pasteur International Network Directors council in Abidjan from 20 to 22 September. Nearly 80 people coming from the 33 member institutes of the network will be present at this major gathering for the Pasteurian community which allows...
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News | 2017.08.24
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur in French Guiana describe the persistence of Zika virus in semen
Researchers of the virology laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in French Guiana, in collaboration with the Military Health Service, have just demonstrated, through a study carried out on about ten male patients, that the Zika virus remains present in the semen for 30 to 45 days after the onset of the first symptoms due to infection with the virus. In a patient, this duration was 188 days.These...
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Article | 2017.08.25
Institut Pasteur international network's reports
International Report 2017-2018 consult online Over the past two years, the Institut Pasteur International Network has been characterized by the unprecedented strength of the links between its different institutes. Find in this new report the key challenges and the...
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Document de presse | 2017.08.31
Gut microbiota of mosquito larvae has an impact on adult insect’s ability to transmit human pathogens
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and CNRS, in collaboration with scientific teams from IRD, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1*, and CIRMF in Gabon, have demonstrated that differential bacterial exposure during the development of mosquito larvae (Aedes aegypti) can have “carry-over” effects on adult traits related to an insect’s ability to be a successful vector of arboviruses. These results...
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News | 2017.09.15
"We have achieved some of our dreams to advance science in Africa"
Since its creation in 1972, the Institut Pasteur in Côte d'Ivoire is one of the pillars of research and public health in the country and the region. Over the past 10 years, the institute has undergone a major technological shift to become one of the most advanced institutions in West Africa. Interview with Prof. Mireille Dosso, Director of the Institut Pasteur in Côte d'Ivoire.What makes the...
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Document de presse | 2017.09.01
The bacteria responsible for Legionellosis modulates the host cell metabolism to its advantage
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur, CNRS and Inserm, together with a team from Switzerland*, have shown that the bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila (the causative agent of Legionnaires’ disease or legionellosis) has developed a specific strategy to target the host cell mitochondria, the organelles in charge of cellular bioenergetics. By changing the shape of these host organelles, L....
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Article | 2017.09.12
Pasteur-Paris University enrollment 2018
The 2017-2018 call for enrollment of students in October 2018 is open.
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News | 2017.09.15
Lyme disease – chipmunks may affect tick infection but the risk of transmission is more complex
Lyme disease is caused by bacteria transmitted by the bite of an infected tick of the Ixodes genus. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur have investigated tick infection when Siberian chipmunks are present, as these rodents are thought to be a reservoir for the bacteria. This pet, which was popular in the 1970s, was introduced to some forests where it now thrives, like in Sénart Forest, south-...
