BIP : The Institut Pasteur Newsletter, July 26, 2019

Extremophiles are organisms that have evolved to thrive under extremely harsh environmental conditions. Scientists have always been mystified by how these organisms survive in such settings and especially how extracellular appendages, such as pili, remain stable.

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is dramatically increasing worldwide and is becoming one of the most urgent public health threats. There is an urgent need for actions to reverse the curve of AMR expansion and to develop innovative drugs (antibiotics, antiparasites, antifungals, antivirus) and therapeutic strategies for safer and sustainable treatments of infectious diseases. To respond to this urgency, AMR has been declared one of the three priorities of the Institut Pasteur Strategic Plan.