A mother and infant in Malawi have the same repertoire of antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite. That suggests that boosting the mother's immune response to malaria, as via vaccination, will result in ...
Sep 5, 2017
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We all know about parasites, like tapeworms that can get into our intestines if we eat infected undercooked meat. There are many types of parasitic worms, including flatworms and roundworms, and they can all make humans sick.
Sep 5, 2017
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Eating raw or undercooked pork infected with the parasitic worms, Trichinella spiralis, can lead to trichinosis.
Aug 30, 2017
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Scientists at the University of York have discovered that parasites responsible for leishmaniasis - a globally occurring neglected tropical disease spread by sand flies - are mainly acquired from the skin rather than a person's ...
Jul 5, 2017
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Schools that provide prevention education, insecticide-treated nets and antimalarial treatment, in regions where malaria is highly seasonal, could reduce the risk of schoolchildren developing anaemia and improve their cognitive ...
Jun 28, 2017
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An international research collaborative is testing a new approach to malaria vaccine development in humans for the first time. The concept is similar to that used by Edward Jenner to develop a vaccine against smallpox, the ...
May 31, 2017
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Cytokines are proteins secreted by several types of immune cells in response to infection, inflammation, or injury. Interleukin-17 (IL-17) is one such cytokine that causes inflammation, by controlling the production of other ...
Apr 3, 2017
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A molecular mechanism which could explain why allergies are more common in developed countries has been discovered by researchers at The University of Nottingham.
Feb 16, 2017
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A lineage of multidrug resistant P. falciparum malaria superbugs has widely spread and is now established in parts of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, causing high treatment failure rates for the main falciparum malaria medicines, ...
Feb 1, 2017
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Many infectious diseases are one and done; people get sick once and then they are protected from another bout of the same illness. For some of these infections - chickenpox, for example - a small number of microbes persist ...
Jan 16, 2017
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