Medical research
Scientists artificially infect mosquitoes with human malaria to advance treatment
A vector refers to an organism that carries and transmits an infectious disease, as mosquitoes do malaria.
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Inexpensive and rapid tests can distinguish between Chagas disease parasites
A new rapid diagnostic test that can differentiate between different strains of Chagas disease parasite could lead to a widespread testing program.
Nov 12, 2020
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Medical research
Stronger treatments could cure Chagas disease
Researchers in the University of Georgia's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases have found that a more intensive, less frequent drug regimen with currently available therapeutics could cure the infection that ...
Oct 29, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Your brain parasite isn't making you sick—here's why
More than 30 million Americans are infected with a brain parasite spread by cats and contaminated meat, but most will never show symptoms. A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine explains why, and ...
Jul 30, 2020
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Vaccination
Malaria breakthrough set to change vaccine design
Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered a vital clue as to why malaria vaccines keep failing, which could potentially change how vaccines for the deadly disease and others are made.
Jul 22, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Pesticides speed the spread of deadly waterborne pathogens
Widespread use of pesticides and other agrochemicals can speed the transmission of the debilitating disease schistosomiasis, while also upsetting the ecological balances in aquatic environments that prevent infections, finds ...
Jul 17, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Artemisinin: fighting coronavirus with this antimalarial drug is risky
Since the beginning of the pandemic, much work has been done to test whether antimalarial drugs can treat COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine, the most well known, has been found to be ineffective. But in Africa, another drug has ...
Jul 14, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Chemical offers new hope of finding treatments for neglected tropical diseases
Scientists say they are a step closer to developing a drug to kill the trypanosome parasite that causes human African trypanosomiasis, otherwise known as sleeping sickness, paving the way for a potential cure.
Jul 13, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Research reveals a new malaria vaccine candidate
Researchers have discovered a promising new strategy for combating malaria, a mosquito-borne parasite that claims nearly a half-million lives each year.
Apr 22, 2020
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Dentistry
Improving the treatment of periodontitis
For the first time, researchers from Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin have shown that a unicellular parasite commonly found in the mouth plays a role in both severe tissue inflammation and tissue destruction. Most patients ...
Apr 15, 2020
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