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News | 2019.06.18
Vaccines: a life insurance for humankind
France would be more suspicious of vaccines than more than 140 other countries, according to a global survey into how people around the world think and feel about science and major health challenges, published on June 19th, 2019. However, vaccines have made a key, cost-effective contribution to the prolongation of life expectancy and quality. Nowadays, vaccinology and immunology are facing...
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Fiche maladie | 2019.06.25
Kaposi’s sarcoma
Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is caused by infection with human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). Although KS can occur independently of HIV/AIDS, it frequently develops in individuals co-infected with HIV and HHV-8. The AIDS epidemic has therefore led to a huge rise in the number of cases of Kaposi’s sarcoma, especially in regions of Africa where HHV-8 is endemic.
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Fiche maladie | 2019.06.25
HTLV-I
HTLV-1 was the first human retrovirus to be discovered – it was isolated in 1980 by Robert Gallo's team in the United States. In 5% of cases, infected individuals go on to develop leukemia or a myeloneuropathy. Ten to twenty million people are infected by the virus worldwide. The major areas of endemic HTLV-1 infection are south-west Japan, the Caribbean, Latin America and tropical Africa.
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Fiche maladie | 2019.06.25
Lassa fever
Lassa fever is an acute viral disease belonging to the category of viral hemorrhagic fevers, similar to Ebola. It is mainly found in West Africa and is caused by the Lassa virus, which is transmitted to humans through contact with infected rodents. Although many cases of infection are asymptomatic, the disease may be severe and potentially fatal.
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News | 2019.07.01
Successful second international medical entomology course in Vientiane, Laos
The second international medical entomology course took place in Vientiane, at the Institut Pasteur du Laos, for two weeks from June 10 to 22, 2019. The course is funded by the Pasteur International Network Association and held on an alternating basis with the Insect Vectors and Transmission of Pathogenic Agents (IVTPA) course at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. The next IVTPA course will take...
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News | 2019.07.04
An innovative tool to study psychiatric or infectious diseases
At the Cap'CARNOT event on June 27, 2019 in Paris, the Pasteur Microbes and Health Carnot Institute, composed of several Institut Pasteur departments and technological platforms, presented a tool based on artificial intelligence that can be used to monitor the behavior of groups of mice in real time and characterize their social interactions. The Cap'CARNOT event on June 27, 2019 in Paris....
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Document de presse | 2019.07.10
Anaphylactic shock: IgG antibodies and neutrophils play an unexpected role
Anaphylactic shock, an exacerbated allergic reaction that can prove fatal, is sometimes caused by the use of drugs during surgery. In most of these extreme reactions, evidence can be provided that patients have anti-drug antibodies of the IgE class. In 10 to 20% of anaphylactic cases evidence for the involvement of anti-drug IgE is lacking. Anti-drug IgE enable activation of mast cells and...
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Document de presse | 2019.07.11
High-risk pregnancy: the interferon effect
Discovery of a cellular mechanism involved in abnormal placental development during some high-risk pregnancies.High-risk pregnancies occur frequently and may be caused by various factors. It is estimated that 10 to 20% of pregnant women miscarry during their first trimester of pregnancy. Slow fetal growth may also arise as a result of maternal infection with certain microbes, parasites or viruses...
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News | 2019.07.08
High-level microscopy unveils bacteria’s adaptation mechanisms
Microorganisms are constantly challenged by a variety of environmental stresses. In many bacteria, the stressosome, a key inducer of the stress response is a very large machine that responds to diverse environmental changes. However, how the stressosome transmits stress signals from the environment has remained elusive. Thanks to a high-resolution microscope Titan KriosTM, researchers from the...
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Article | 2019.07.09
Cours internationaux - 2019
TITLEORGANIZERINSTITUTEDURATION DATECOURSE PLACEAtelier NGS : Epidémiologie génomique, microbiome et métagénomique pour l'Afrique et l'Océan IndienJean-Marc COLLARDInstitut Pasteur Madagascar7 daysTo Be DefinedInstitut Pasteur MadagascarSystèmes d'information géographique appliquées à l'épidémiologie : Introduction au logiciel QGIS 2. Analyses multicritères spacialisées : Application en...
