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Parasitic disease
A parasitic disease is an infectious disease transmitted by a parasite. Because parasites rely on their host for survival, most do not cause disease in their host. Examples of parasitic diseases include malaria, Chagas disease, and African trypanosomiasis (also known as sleeping sickness).
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Malaria is one of the biggest ongoing threats to global health — over 200 million were infected and almost half a ...Written By: Tara Fernandes
MAY 07, 2021
Microbiology
There's water all over the world, but only a bit of it - 0.3% - is useful to us, making wastewater treatment an essentia
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 27, 2021
Immunology
University of Oxford scientists have developed a vaccine against malaria, which they describe as having “unprecede
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
APR 09, 2021
Plants & Animals
Sunday, April 11, is National Pet Day! From pandemic companions to viral videos, pets are a huge part of our lives. Even
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
APR 04, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Malaria is a major health problem in many parts of the world; nearly half a million people die from malaria, and another
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 03, 2021
Cancer
In a study published recently in Science Immunology, WEHI’s Professor Stephen Nutt, Dr. Michael Chopin, and Mr. Sh
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 02, 2021
Drug Discovery & Development
What are tropical and neglected diseases? Chronic infections that plague developing nations with often little financial
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
MAR 16, 2021
Immunology
One of the most remarkable features of the immune system is its ability to “remember” past encounters with p
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
FEB 10, 2021
Drug Discovery & Development
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists from Florida Atlantic University's Schmidt College of Medicine in collabora
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
FEB 04, 2021
Immunology
Malaria is a disease caused by single-celled parasites from the Plasmodium group, transmitted to humans through infected
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
JAN 23, 2021
Microbiology
About a year ago, I wrote about the virus that would come to be known as SARS-CoV-2 for the first time. And while we've
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 10, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Mosquitoes are killers; they are thought to be responsible for the deaths of millions of people every year because of th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 29, 2020
Microbiology
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is thought to infect a third of the people on the planet as well as a wide range of other
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 19, 2020
Microbiology
Ticks are notorious vectors of disease, but they can transmit those illnesses without becoming infected themselves.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 19, 2020
Immunology
Parasitic worms known as helminths have a complicated relationship with the immune systems of the hosts they invade. Ter
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
NOV 18, 2020
Health & Medicine
New research presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene warns that climate
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
NOV 05, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
It looks like a Band-Aid — a small, adhesive patch that is applied directly to the skin. This simple, low-cost dia
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
OCT 26, 2020
Immunology
The mother’s placenta serves as a shield for the developing fetus inside the womb, protecting it from the constant
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
OCT 12, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Mosquitoes can transmit the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite to humans. Malaria was estimated to have caused the deat
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 11, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
The NMDA receptor is known to play a crucial role in memory, and synaptic plasticity - where neurons change, altering ne
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 30, 2020
Microbiology
Schistosomiasis doesn't get much research attention, but it affects around 240 million people around the world, killing
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 23, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
In order to infect a cell, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has to find a way in. It can use receptors on the surface of cells that
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 11, 2020
Microbiology
While only about 25 of 900 species of tick spread disease, ticks are responsible for an estimated 95 percent of vector-b
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 10, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
A team of innovators from Stanford University has invented the Onchoscope: a low-cost, customizable microscope fo
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
SEP 01, 2020
Immunology
Malaria is one of the biggest ongoing threats to global health — over 200 million were infected and almost half a
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes