Two scientists from Institut Pasteur du Cambodge attending the Pasteur Japan Symposium 2022 Dr. BOYER Sébastien and Dr. DUONG Veasna participated to the Pasteur Japan Symposium 2022 on the France-Japan cooperation on Health, held at the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo (IMSUT) on November 2nd and 3rd. The symposium has the … Read more
Experts meeting to share knowledge on emerging infection animal diseases Dr. Erik Karlsson, Deputy Head of the Virology Unit at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge attended an expert network meeting of the World Organisation for Animal Health hosted by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research held from … Read more
Publication on the Vicious Cycle of Nutrition and Infectious Disease from the Virology Unit Despite the fact that we produce enough food to feed everyone on Earth, world hunger is on the rise. On the other side of the table, the obesity crisis also weighs heavily. Malnutrition is less about food than about socioeconomic factors … Read more
As part of an international scientific consortium, Zikalliance, the Virology and Medical and Veterinary Entomology Units studied the transmission of the Zika Virus worldwide and in Cambodia. In an experiment involving 50 mosquito populations collected in 12 countries distributed worldwide, the study demonstrated that Aedes aegypti is the most important vector Zika virus transmission. The … Read more
IPC researchers published a new study assessing the immune response after SARS-CoV-2 infection Understanding the duration of humoral and cellular immune memory following SARS-CoV-2 infection is key to overcome the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Researchers at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge have evaluated the presence of virus-specific antibodies, T cells and B cells after SARS-CoV-2 infection in … Read more
The Virology Unit at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge turns 25 For the past 25 years, the Virology Unit at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) has been integral in research and response on emerging and endemic viruses in Cambodia, Southeast Asia, and around the globe. Established in 1996, the Virology Unit at IPC is the National … Read more
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 is pleased to share the publication of the paper below published in Science, the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This research on dengue is the result of a collaboration between the Immunology, Epidemiology and Public Health and Virology teams at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge
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.
Scientists from the Virology Unit at the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC; www.pasteur-kh.org), have successfully cultured the virus causing COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) from an infected patient clinical samples.