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Fiche maladie | 2015.12.28
Shigellosis
Shigellosis, also known as bacillary dysentery, is an infectious bowel disease caused by a group of bacteria known by the name of Shigella. Infection is mainly characterized by severe diarrhea, often containing blood, together with abdominal cramps and fever. It mainly affects preschool age children, but can also occur in adults.
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Document de presse | 2025.02.12
Mpox: a better understanding of tecovirimat resistance
A virus originally found in animals, mpox – which causes the disease of the same name – is now circulating in humans. Since 2022, it has been the cause of major epidemics spreading outside endemic areas in Central and West Africa. Two hundred and fifteen cases of mpox infection were reported to Santé publique France in 2024. Tecovirimat is the drug most commonly used to treat patients infected...
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News | 2026.02.12
Hepatitis B: two major breakthroughs raise hopes of eradicating chronic illness
Current treatments for hepatitis B do not cure the disease and often have to be taken for life. Two recent breakthroughs in the Institut Pasteur's research offer real hopes of progress for patients, at a time when 250 million people worldwide are living with chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
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Article | 2017.10.13
Afribiota project: Childhood malnutrition
Malnutrition is a leading cause of child morbidity and mortality in low-income countries. The state of malnutrition is maintained by a chronic inflammation of the intestine observed in a large proportion of children living in unsanitary conditions. This syndrome called pediatric environmental enteropathy has so far been poorly studied. The Afribiota project aims to better characterize this...
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News | 2026.03.08
Mathilda: The Music Video Giving a Voice Back to Women in Science
On the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day on March 8, 2026, Yaëlle Wormser, a PhD student in microbiology at Université Paris Cité and the Institut Pasteur—also known by her stage name Lady Pipette—is releasing “Mathilda,” an engaged music video centered on the Matilda effect. At the intersection of science and creative expression, this project highlights the invisibilization of women...
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Document de presse | 2015.10.28
The Institut Pasteur and Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Molecular Medicine Partner to Form Global Genomics Center
Paris, France and Los Angeles, CaliforniaThe Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Molecular Medicine (CSSIOMM) and the Institut Pasteur today announced a partnership to establish The Pasteur Global Health Genomics Center (PGHGC). The aim of the PGHGC is to advance genomic research utilizing next-generation patient information systems needed to support the acquisition and usage of high-quality...
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Document de presse | 2023.02.20
HIV: third case in the world of probable cure after a bone marrow transplant
Forty years after the discovery of HIV in 1983 at the Institut Pasteur, 38.4 million people were living with the virus worldwide in 2021.[1] Only two cases of people being cured had previously been described: the Berlin patient in 2009 and the London patient in 2019. The IciStem consortium, whose members include Asier Sáez-Cirión's team at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Düsseldorf...
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Article | 2019.06.20
Cancer and microbes
Identifying and combating the risk factors behind tumor development.
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Document de presse | 2016.03.21
A genomic study of epidemic dysentery: how Europe exported a scourge worldwide
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and its International Network, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Cambridge, United Kingdom) and several international institutions have just published an exceptionally wide-ranging study tracing the history of the bacillus responsible for epidemic dysentery – one of the worst scourges to afflict humans throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This vast...
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Document de presse | 2020.04.24
Development and evaluation of four serological assays to detect SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and two assays to detect neutralizing antibodies
Approximately four months after the initial description of cases of atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, COVID-19 had become a major pandemic threat. By April 12, 2020, around half of the world's population was in lockdown, with 1.8 million officially diagnosed cases. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, Inserm and Université de Paris conducted a pilot study to...