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Document de presse | 2019.02.27
Zika: silent long-term circulation in Thailand
The circulation of the dengue virus for the past sixty years in South-East Asia is relatively well known. For Zika, the situation is much less clear. In an attempt to shed light on Zika circulation, scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS, in collaboration with US teams and the Thai National Institute of Health, decided to investigate the history of the Zika virus in Thailand. They made...
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Document de presse | 2009.12.10
Malaria: a beneficial genetic mutation in South-East Asia
A large-scale evolutionary and epidemiological genetic study carried out over an eight-year period in Thailand has enabled Institut Pasteur and CNRS researchers to demonstrate that a mutation that is particularly widespread in some South-East Asian populations offers a higher level of resistance to malaria. This research, published in the December 11 issue of the journal Science, also reveals...
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News | 2013.08.01
Dengue: identifying mosquito genetic factors that control virus transmission
Dengue is currently the most common insect-borne viral disease of humans worldwide. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) have discovered several genetic factors controlling the transmission of various dengue virus strains in a natural population of mosquitoes in...
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Document de presse | 2005.04.24
Dengue: we are not all equal in the eyes of this disease
Dengue, a virosis which is raging in tropical areas, is transmitted by mosquitoes. It affects 100 million people each year throughout the world. The genetic analysis of a large cohort of subjects who were hospitalised with this disease in Thailand has enabled researchers at the Institut Pasteur, together with researchers from Inserm (the National Institute for Health and Medical Research), to...
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Document de presse | 2013.08.01
Dengue: identifying mosquito genetic factors that control virus transmission
Dengue is currently the most common insect-borne viral disease of humans worldwide. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) have discovered several genetic factors controlling the transmission of various dengue virus strains in a natural population of mosquitoes in...
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Document de presse | 2018.02.21
Genetics makes Asians and Europeans susceptible to severe dengue
As globalization and climate change spread tropical infectious diseases around the globe, not all populations have the same degree of susceptibility. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, CNRS and the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health-University of Porto (i3S) identified gene variants common in people of Asian and European ancestry, making them more prone than those of African...
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News | 2014.09.23
Signing of a technical agreement with Myanmar within the framework of the SEAe program
On September 17th, 2014 in Yangon, Myanmar, the Institut Pasteur, the Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, the National Health Laboratory, and the national Health authorities of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement for the implementation of the project entitled “The threat of infectious encephalitis in Southeast Asia: Capacity building for a better...
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Document de presse | 2018.06.19
In-Cell-Art, the Institut Pasteur and BioNet-Asia announce the collaborative development of a dengue vaccine candidate
In-Cell-Art (ICA), a biotechnology company specialized in nanocarrier technologies, BioNet-Asia (BNA), an innovative vaccine developer, and the research team led by Dr. Anavaj Sakuntabhai at the Functional Genetics of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institut Pasteur Paris France, (GFMI-IP), announce today the development of Nanotaxi® formulated DNA vaccine to induce strong immune response against...
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Document de presse | 2018.05.23
Dengue: investigating antibodies to identify at-risk individuals
Using an original mathematical and statistical analysis method, a team of scientists from the Institut Pasteur partnered with researchers from the United States and Thailand to analyze a Thai cohort that has long been a focus of study for dengue specialists, and obtained new information that should help identify individuals at risk of infection. By modeling changes in antibody levels after...
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News | 2017.04.27
Institut Pasteur in Guinea: One Health training to strengthen local expertise
Guinea remains marked by the Ebola virus outbreak, which highlighted the overall weakness of its health systems. It coud still be the scene of emerging zoonotic diseases with epidemic potential. A better understanding of the conditions for the emergence of those zoonosis and the good practices allowing their detection and prevention is therefore essential to reduce the risk of (re)...