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Fiche maladie | 2015.10.06
Yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral disease that was first described in the mid-sixteenth century in Yucatán, Mexico. It is caused by yellow fever virus, an arbovirus (a virus transmitted by an insect vector) isolated in 1927, simultaneously in Ghana and at the Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Senegal. The disease is endemic in Africa and in Central and South America. The case fatality rate is high, fluctuating...
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News | 2016.12.08
Congratulations are in order for the Pasteur iGEM 2016 team!
On Friday December 9 this year, the 19 students* in the Pasteur iGEM 2016 team receive their awards at a ceremony that took place in the Institut Pasteur’s Duclaux lecture hall in Paris. For the second consecutive year the team excelled in the iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine) competition, an annual event to promote research in synthetic biology. The team returned from the...
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Document de presse | 2017.02.24
Link between a virus and sexual reproduction on Earth
By formally identifying the main player in the fusion between male and female sex cells, researchers from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and Paris Descartes University, together with American and German teams, have revealed the probable viral origin of this fusion process, which is common to a vast number of living organisms on Earth. In addition, the study provides new lines of research for...
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News | 2017.06.22
A strategy for attenuating a virus by modifying its evolutionary potential
RNA viruses, like influenza viruses, have broad genetic variability, which gives them a high adaptive potential. As part of the fight against RNA viruses, scientists at the Institut Pasteur – evolutionary virologists – decided to alter their future. Along with colleagues from Lund University (Sweden), they succeeded in altering the genomes of an enterovirus and an influenza virus, thereby...
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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 | 2018.03.20
Mamadou Aliou Barry, a lookout against epidemics in Senegal
Physician and epidemiologist, Mamadou Aliou Barry trained between France, Senegal and Laos. Since January 2015, he coordinates the syndromic sentinel surveillance network at the Institut Pasteur in Dakar. This network enables to detect epidemics of febrile illnesses almost in real time thanks to an early warning system.After high school, his classmates all wanted to do math or exact sciences but...
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News | 2018.10.17
Claude Flamand : predicting epidemics with satellite images
Settled in Cayenne for 11 years, Claude Flamand heads the Epidemiology Unit at the Institut Pasteur de la Guyane. Since 2014, this epidemiologist and biostatistician works with the French National Centre for Space Studies to predict dengue epidemics in time and space thanks to satellite imaging."Car, helicopter, canoe, we used every possible means to reach people everywhere in French Guiana",...
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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 | 2019.07.17
The Institut Pasteur launches a Scientific Platform in the university of São Paulo Research and Innovation Center
On July 4, the Institut Pasteur, an internationally renowned center for biomedical research and a French non-profit foundation specialized in infectious diseases, has inaugurated the Pasteur-USP Scientific Platform in the University of São Paulo Research and Innovation Center (Inova USP) which is hosting 17 laboratories dedicated to innovation. This platform will focus on the study of pathogens...
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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...
