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Medical research institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC ;
Khmer : វិទ្យាស្ថានប៉ាស្ទ័រកម្ពុជា ) is a medical research centre and public health institute in
Phnom Penh ,
Cambodia . It is part of the
Pasteur Institute's international network of health centres and is partnered with the
Ministry of Health . It was first established in 1953 and reopened in 1992 after the
1991 Paris Peace Agreements .[
citation needed ]
Since 1998, IPC has been the only source of
post-exposure prophylaxis vaccinations in the prevention of
rabies in Cambodia.
[1]
[2] The institute has rabies prevention centres in Phnom Penh,
Battambang and
Kampong Cham .
[3]
From 2020, IPC has been part of the national committee involved in the public health response to the
COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia
[4] as well as conducting research into
SARS-CoV-2 .
[5]
[6] Researchers at IPC found through sequencing research that viruses from Cambodian
horseshoe bats shared 97% similarity with
SARS-CoV-2 , providing knowledge into possible
origins of COVID-19 .
[7]
[6] IPC also conduct research on future emerging
zoonoses .
[8]
See also
References
^ Ly, Sowath; Buchy, Philippe; Heng, Nay Yim; Ong, Sivuth; Chhor, Nareth; Bourhy, Hervé; Vong, Sirenda (2009-09-08).
"Rabies Situation in Cambodia" . PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases . 3 (9): e511.
doi :
10.1371/journal.pntd.0000511 .
ISSN
1935-2735 .
PMC
2731168 .
PMID
19907631 .
^ Murray, Kieran (2020-08-24).
"Can Cambodia Eradicate the World's Most Fatal Disease?" .
New Naratif . Retrieved 2021-06-04 .
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^
"Cambodia sets national committee to combat COVID-19 - China.org.cn" . www.china.org.cn . Retrieved 2021-06-04 .
^
"The Cambodian lab working to unravel how COVID-19 spreads and grows" . Southeast Asia Globe . 2020-04-02. Retrieved 2021-06-04 .
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a
b
"COVID-19: Bats living in Cambodia in 2010 carried 'nearly identical' pathogen to COVID-19 virus, scientists discover" . Sky News . Retrieved 2021-06-04 .
^ Mallapaty, Smriti (2020-11-23).
"Coronaviruses closely related to the pandemic virus discovered in Japan and Cambodia" . Nature . 588 (7836): 15–16.
Bibcode :
2020Natur.588...15M .
doi :
10.1038/d41586-020-03217-0 .
PMID
33230273 .
S2CID
227157702 .
^ Zeeberg, Amos (2021-02-16).
"Piecing Together the Next Pandemic" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-06-04 .
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