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New insight in the fight against the Leishmania parasite
Professor Albert Descoteaux's team at Centre INRS - Institut Armand-Frappier has gained a better understanding of how the Leishmania donovani parasite manages to outsmart the human immune system and proliferate with impunity, causing visceral leishmaniasis, a chronic infection that is potentially fatal if left untreated. view more (2009-10-26)
Research supports toxoplasmosis link to schizophrenia
Scientists have discovered how the toxoplasmosis parasite may trigger the development of schizophrenia and other bipolar disorders. view more (2009-03-11)
Indiana U scientists uncover potential key to better drugs to fight toxoplasmosis parasite
Discoveries by Indiana University School of Medicine scientists have opened a promising door to new drugs for toxoplasmosis and other parasites that now can evade treatments by turning dormant in the body. view more (2008-06-19)
Ewe parasite research to save £80m a year
New research at the University of Leeds has overturned existing advice to farmers that has been maintaining the disease toxoplasma in the nation's sheep flocks for years. Toxoplasma is a disease humans catch from sheep and cats that causes human abortions and birth defects with greater frequency than rubella. In a study of a pedigree Charolais... view more... (2004-03-24)
Bizarre bug wears host's skin
Oxford scientists have discovered a particularly macabre method one parasite (Strepsiptera) has for disguising itself in its insect host: it wraps itself in a piece of the host's own body tissue. In this way the strepsipteran masquerades as 'self', and is protected from the insect's immune system. The mechanism whereby Strepsiptera flourish... view more... (2003-06-03)
The results are in: Bacterial parasite strives for balance in host infection
When horror-movie writers run out of ideas, they can always turn to parasites. Imagine the possibilities with flesh-eating bacteria, suicide-inducing hairworms, scalp burrowing botflies—and castrating parasites. view more (2006-05-30)
Discovery of key malaria proteins could mean sticky end for parasite
Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust have identified a key mechanism that enables malaria-infected red blood cells to stick to the walls of blood vessels and avoid being destroyed by the body's immune system. The research, published today in the journal Cell, highlights an important potential new target for anti-malarial drugs. view more (2008-07-10)
Gene that helps mosquitoes fight off malaria parasite identified
Researchers have identified a gene in mosquitoes that helps the insects to fight off infection by the Plasmodium parasite, which causes malaria in humans. Anopheles mosquitoes transmit the malaria parasite to nearly 550 million people worldwide each year with these cases resulting in more than 2 million deaths annually. view more (2005-10-25)
Farmed fish with parasites: impact on wild fish stocks
'Fish farming is often proposed as a solution to diminishing stocks of wild fish. Sadly, many parasites are threatening the future of aquaculture' [by depleting fish stocks], write Jo Cable and Phil Harris, of Cardiff and Nottingham Universities, in the August issue of Biologist. A wide range of invertebrates can live on, or in fish before they... view more... (2003-08-01)
Partnership IRD- Mayor de San Andre's University (La Paz, Bolivia)Diagnostic kit for Chagas' disease rewarded by the Altran Foundation
Eric Deharo, biologist and pharmacologist at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), working in Bolivia, has just received a special mention from the Altran Foundation (Altran Technologie) jury for his diagnostic kit for Chagas' disease, in the context of the 2002 awards "Technological innovation for the developing... view more... (2002-07-08)
Bacteria Play Role in Preventing Spread of Malaria
Bacteria in the gut of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito inhibit infection of the insect with Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria in humans, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. view more (2009-05-11)
Identified mechanism in the malaria parasite to help it adapt to infected individuals
Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most severe forms of human malaria. Invasion of host red blood cells is an essential step of the complex life cycle of this parasite. view more (2007-08-03)
The tapeworm contraceptive
A tapeworm may be the unlikely source of a new contraceptive - 100% effective in either sex! Despite intensive research, scientists have so far failed to find the perfect contraceptive for women - let alone men. However, a study in freshwater fish of the carp family has found a parasite, Ligula intestinalis, that makes the fish infertile. The... view more... (2002-12-04)
Anisakiasis hazard varies depending on the origin of the fish, according to a study
A research team of the University of Granada (Spain) has confirmed a higher presence of the parasite Anisakis spp in anchovies of the Atlantic South East coast and the Mediterranean North West coast, and they insist on freezing or cooking fish before consuming it. view more (2009-11-11)
Chew fly, don't bother me
Genetic engineering may offer new hope for controlling malaria, entomologists will tell the Royal Entomological Society's meeting Entomology 2001: "Insects and disease", to be held at the University of Aberdeen on 10-12 September 2001. Alex Schwartz of the University of Aarhus in Denmark, and Professor Jacob Koella of the... view more... (2001-08-30)
New molecular insight into amboebic dysentery
In the June 15th issue of G&D, Dr. Sinisa Urban (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) and colleagues reveal a potential role for the rhomboid enzyme, EhROM1, in the pathogenesis of the enteric protozoan parasite, E. histolytica. view more (2008-06-16)
Researchers find essential proteins for critical stage of malaria
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) have identified the molecular components that enable the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium to infect the salivary glands of the Anopheles mosquito-a critical stage for spreading malaria to humans. view more (2009-01-16)
Scientists make malaria parasite work to reveal its own vulnerabilities
Researchers seeking ways to defeat malaria have found a way to get help from the parasite that causes the disease. view more (2009-01-29)
New Swedish research hope for millions of sufferers
Today's issue of the scientific journal Science presents research on the genetic make-up and biology of the parasite Giardia lamblia that ultimately may lead to better diagnosis and treatment of the diarrhea disease giardiasis, which affects 200 million people every year. view more (2007-10-01)
First genetically-engineered malaria vaccine to enter human trials
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have created a weakened strain of the malaria parasite that will be used as a live vaccine against the disease. view more (2009-07-29)
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