1 Faculty of Paramedical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2 Drug Design and Bioinformatics Unit, Medical Biotechnology Department, Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran. 3 Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. 4 Department of Statistics and Actuarial S...

This paper describes a technique developed by the Pasteur Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, for counting and classifying a canine population according to levels of dependency and confinement. First, a household survey was performed to identify dogs with owners and their degree of restriction. Different-colored collars were given to totally and partially restricted dogs. Dogs cared for by individu...

question of site and plans. The sub-committee recommended that the proposed institute should also be made a centre for medical research into the diseases prevalent in Assam. The Indian Tea Association, Calcutta, and the Assam and Surma Valley Branches, and many commercial firms and individuals in Calcutta promised donations and also subscriptions towards the annual cost of maintenance. In Octob...

Three years after the creation of the Pasteur Institute in Paris (1888), Albert Calmette, a French doctor in the Corps de Sante des Colonies, laid the foundations of its first overseas daughter institute in Cochin-China, a distant French colony. In fact, the Australian Pasteur Institute could also lay claim to be considered the first, as Pasteur's own nephew, Adrien Loir,' began plans for it as...

Volume 68, no. 3, p. 176-180, 2015. Page 176, affiliation "(1) Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases Research Center, Tehran; (2)Basic and Molecular Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Disorders Research Center, Tehran; (3)Department of Mycobacteriology and Pulmonary Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran; and (4)Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research center, Research Institute for Gastroen...

The International Congress on Targeting Ebola 2015 was held on 28–29 May 2015 at the Pasteur Institute in Paris (www.targetingebola.com). The meeting was organised in partnership with the COPED of the French Academy of Sciences, the French Task Force Group for Ebola, the Pasteur Institute and the Task Force for Infectious Diseases. Publication of a summary of the meeting by the organisers is an...

The biography of the physician general Alain Jean Georges (1946-2012) shows the exceptional career of a military physician-clinical pathologist specialized in tropical medicine and educated at the Navy Health School in Bordeaux and the Pharo School in Marseille. He completed his education at the Institut Pasteur de Paris in courses still conducted in the spirit of those taught by Louis Pasteur....

This report present major topics and debates of the symposium “30 years of HIV science. Imagine the future”. It was organized by the Pasteur Institute, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Agence Nationale de Recherche sur le Sida (ANRS) and SIDACTION in celebration of the 30th years since the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as causative agent of the acquired immunod...