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    Institut Pasteur of Tunis
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    Since its foundation more than a century ago (1893), IPT has been focusing on major infectious scourges of bacterial, parasitological, and viral etiology, including zoonotic and vector-borne diseases. Pioneering discoveries have been made at IPT by Charles Nicolle (Transmission cycles of Thyphus, toxoplasmosis, visceral leishmaniasis, concept of unapparent infections), who was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology. Since 1995, IPT is managed as a public health institute under the authority of the Tunisian Ministry of Health (MH). Hence, IPT's governance involves an executive administrative board and an advisory scientific council, along with several committees and decision bodies (e.g. biosecurity, Ethics) (Figure 4). IPT has three main missions: (i) research and training, (ii) diagnosis and public health, and (iii) production of vaccines and sera. The overall research activity is carried out throughout nine research laboratories, recognized and regularly evaluated by the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MHESR). IPT ensures training activities for various undergraduate, master and PhD programs. For the training and graduating activities IPT is officially affiliated to the University Tunis El Manar and open to all universities at the national level. Currently, IPT's personnel involves 84 senior researchers, (50 PhD and 34 MD), 12 DVMs, 10 PharmD, more than 100 PhD students and 265 technical and administrative staff. In addition, IPT hosts 18 laboratories that are mainly involved in diagnostic and public health activities, some of which serve as national (rabies, poliomyelitis, measles, salmonella) or regional (WHO/MENA region) reference Centers (poliomyelitis, measles and human papilloma virus). IPT is the main Tunisian institute commissioned by the Tunisian Ministry of Health to carry out epidemiological investigations and surveillance of emerging and re-emerging diseases. As such, IPT plays a pivotal role in infectious-disease control, surveillance, and research, both in Tunisia and throughout the MENA region. Moreover, IPT is member of the Institut Pasteur International Network (IPIN), a global network involving 33 institutes distributed in 26 countries throughout the five continents.

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