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Portrait | 2018.10.04
Anna-Bella Failloux, an all-terrain entomologist!
Close to 70 different nationalities work alongside each other on the Institut Pasteur's Paris campus, and Anna-Bella has come all the way from Tahiti. She was born in Papeete, French Polynesia and lived there until the age of 18. This small paradise conjures up idyllic images but it is blighted by mosquitoes. Maybe that is why Anna-Bella became a medical entomologist specializing in mosquito...
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News | 2019.12.11
Anticipating and reacting quickly to outbreaks: a consortium won the Galien MedStartUp award
The Praesens Foundation, the Institut Pasteur, the Institut Pasteur de Dakar, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST) announced that the consortium is the winner of the Prix Galien MedStartUp award in the category: 'Best Collaboration Dedicated to the Developing or Underserved Populations Worldwide'. The consortium works together to...
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News | 2021.03.09
Whooping cough: light shed on the entry mechanism of a key Bordetella pertussis virulence factor
Bordetella pertussis is the agent responsible for whooping cough, a disease that is currently on the rise. In particular, the bacterium produces the CyaA toxin. A consortium including several teams from the Institut Pasteur, CNRS, and Sorbonne University, working closely with the C2RT Proteins Pole technical cores and several SOLEIL and ESRF synchrotron light lines, has examined the entry...
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Document de presse | 2017.02.27
Infravec2 project launch: A European Commission 10M€ effort to fight mosquito-transmitted diseases
On February 14, the European Commission officially approved the Infravec2 project . This project will improve the European large-scale facilities (infrastructures) for research on mosquitoes and other insects (vectors) that carry human and animal diseases, and will promote sharing of the facilities by European researchers. The Infravec2 project is funded by the Commission’s Horizon 2020...
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News | 2021.10.15
The Institut Pasteur de Guinée: a young institute in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis
The decision to set up an Institut Pasteur in Guinea was made in 2014 in response to the Ebola crisis. It reflects the joint determination of France and Guinea to tackle emerging outbreaks on a long-term basis for the welfare of the population. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, how was this young institute able to fulfill its remit as a front-line laboratory?When the first case of COVID-19 was...
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News | 2022.08.24
ZIKAlliance project: Zika vector competence data reveals risks of outbreaks
A publication published this summer looks back at the contribution of the European ZIKAlliance project, launched in 2016 following the Zika epidemic in the Pacific Islands and America. A global analysis of the competence of potential vectors was carried out, the most comprehensive study of vector competence to date using the same protocols. This study reminds us that vector-borne diseases are...
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Document de presse | 2022.12.20
Identification of a new neural pathway essential for refining odor perception
In the brain, sensory messages are processed by neurons that send the information collected by the sensory organ to the different structures of the brain. At each stage of integration, the activity of these neurons is controlled by interneurons that exert local inhibition in order to direct and modulate the neural messages. This type of circuit forms the classical architecture of the sensory...
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Fiche maladie | 2015.10.06
Group A and B Streptococcus
Infections with group A and B Streptococcus (respectively Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus agalactiae) are frequent. The two bacteria are part of the commensal flora and they only cause symptoms in certain conditions (opportunistic pathogens) or in people at risk.Group A Streptococcus is responsible for several benign infections (including strep throat and impetigo) but can also cause...
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Document de presse | 2023.12.06
Plasmodium vivax malaria: infections may be largely underestimated in sub-Saharan Africa
Researchers from the Institut de Parasitologie et de Pathologie Tropicale at the University of Strasbourg and the Laboratoire de Parasitologie et de Mycologie Médicale at the Strasbourg University Hospital, in collaboration with King's College London, UK, the Institut Pasteur (Paris, France), the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar and the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have revealed how...
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News | 2023.11.16
Antibiotic resistance, or how bacteria become resistant
Antibiotic resistance is a major public health issue. Understanding how resistance works and how bacteria become resistant is crucial in helping us maintain the effectiveness of antibiotics against bacteria.