Upcoming "Pasteur Medicine Quarter-Hour" on leptospirosis on February 9

Every month, the Center for Translational Science runs a "Pasteur Medicine Quarter-Hour" session, where two doctors are invited to give a brief presentation to Institut Pasteur scientists on the diseases they are involved in treating. The doctors start by outlining one or more clinical cases, then provide a short description of the disease and conclude by looking at a series of unanswered questions that need to be addressed.

The next session will look at leptospirosis. It will take place on Tuesday February 9, at 5.30pm, exclusively online via Teams. The speakers will be:

• Loïc Epelboin, an infectious disease specialist at Andrée Rosemon Hospital in French Guiana.

• Mathieu Picardeau, Head of the National Reference Center for Leptospirosis and the Biology of Spirochetes Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.

Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that occurs worldwide. Its main reservoirs are rodents, especially rats, which excrete the bacteria in their urine. In humans, the disease is often mild, but it can lead to kidney failure or even to death in 5 to 20% of cases. Listen to a clinician and biologist describing the symptoms and epidemiology of this disease and looking at some of the unanswered questions that need to be addressed.

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