Covid-19 – Institut Pasteur du Cambodge

Institut Pasteur du Cambodge continues the search for coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 in Cambodia

February 21, 2022November 14, 2021 by Communication

Institut Pasteur du Cambodge continues the search for coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 in Cambodia Researchers in the Virology Unit have recently published papers on the search for coronaviruses and have been integral in searching for and combating emerging and endemic viruses for 25 years. The COVID-19 pandemic has returned the global spotlight to zoonotic … Read more

The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) reached 500K Covid-19 test

February 21, 2022May 19, 2021 by Nelson

The Direction of the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge would sincerely like to express our warmest thanks to all staff for their achievements since the beginning of the pandemic for the benefit of the Cambodian population.

Virus related to SARS-CoV-2 found in bats in Southeast Asia

June 8, 2021March 16, 2021 by Nelson

It is the world’s most pressing scientific puzzle. Pieces scattered around the world are being collected in search of a suspect in the largest health crisis to ever hit the globe in the past century.

Coronavirus: unlikely clues to Covid-19 virus family found in Cambodia lab freezer, Thai drain pipe

June 8, 2021March 11, 2021 by Nelson

A freezer cabinet on the ground floor of a Phnom Penh laboratory and an irrigation pipe in a wildlife sanctuary in Thailand are not the most obvious places to look for the origins of the virus that sparked the Covid-19 pandemic.

Institut Pasteur du Cambodge identifies a betacoronavirus closely related to SARS-CoV-2 in bat samples from 2010

February 21, 2022February 11, 2021 by Nelson

Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, is a hotspot of emerging and endemic infectious diseases, and the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge has been integral in searching for and combating these pathogens since its inception.

One year later: The first detection of Covid-19 in Cambodia

February 21, 2022January 27, 2021 by Nelson

Exactly one year ago today, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) identified the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Cambodia. A long history of detecting and preventing emerging and endemic infectious diseases along with a rapid response to the global concern over “pneumonia of unknown origin” allowed IPC to be ready to test for SARS-CoV-2 in mid-January.

Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) has performed more than 200,000 (two hundred thousand) COVID-19 RT-PCR tests

February 21, 2022January 15, 2021 by Nelson

The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) has been in the forefront of the global COVID-19 pandemic response in Cambodia since January, 2020. IPC remains fully committed to the pandemic response and working together with the Ministry of Health to combat COVID-19 in Cambodia.

The visited of Mr. Thomas Hundt, CEO of Smart Axiata to Institut Pasteur du Cambodge

February 21, 2022December 4, 2020 by Nelson

It was our great pleasure to welcome M. Thomas Hundt, CEO of Smart Axiata and his corporate affairs team at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge.

One hundred thousand COVID-19 RT-PCR tests performed by the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge

February 21, 2022November 11, 2020 by Nelson

The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) remains fully committed to working together with the Ministry of Health to combat COVID-19 in Cambodia. As of 26 October 2020, IPC has performed more than 100,000 (one hundred thousand) COVID-19 molecular diagnostic tests by RT-PCR in the Virology Unit.

TB-Speed still active in the COVID-19 pandemic

May 13, 2021October 10, 2020 by Nelson

In 2019, an estimated 10.0 million (range, 8.9 –11.0 million) people became ill with TB worldwide, of which 1.2 million were children. The vast majority of tuberculosis-related deaths occur in children that are not diagnosed and therefore not treated.