MeSH tree: C01.920.813
Researchers working with Professor Ralf Erdmann at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have discovered a critical vulnerability shared by the pathogens that cause African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis. ...
Feb 27, 2026
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Engineers at Stanford University have developed a high-efficiency, battery/solar-operated, autonomous microscope with integrated artificial intelligence that automatically diagnoses malaria in blood smears—a previously tedious ...
Feb 10, 2026
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For nearly a year, repeated misdiagnoses of the deadly kala-azar disease left 60-year-old Harada Hussein Abdirahman's health deteriorating, as an outbreak in Kenya's arid regions claimed a record number of lives.
Feb 8, 2026
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Brazilian researchers have discovered chemical compounds in marine sponges that have the potential to eliminate the malaria parasite, including strains that are resistant to conventional antimalarial drugs. The research results ...
Jul 9, 2025
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Kenya's government urged vigilance on Wednesday as it tackles a cholera outbreak that has killed at least five people, a health ministry official said.
Apr 9, 2025
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Nearly one million people worldwide are plagued annually by cutaneous leishmaniasis, a devastating skin infection caused by the Leishmania parasite. Predominantly affecting vulnerable populations in tropical and subtropical ...
Apr 7, 2025
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A health organization created in the wake of World War II to fight disease across the planet is losing its biggest donor, the United States.
Jan 24, 2025
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A compound derived from Nectandra leucantha, a tree native to southern Brazil (local names: canela-seca or canela-branca), has the potential to be used to treat visceral leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease associated ...
Jan 7, 2025
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A discovery by McGill-affiliated researchers could lead to more effective treatment of malaria and other parasitic diseases.
Aug 19, 2024
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Researchers in Brazil who analyzed samples from a 46-year-old patient in the Northeast state of Maranhão found an amphotericin B-resistant strain of the parasite Leishmania amazonensis circulating for the first time in the ...
Aug 15, 2024
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