Schistosomiasis treatment failure and improved treatment strategies: DRIVERS, a Wellcome project
This webinar marks the online launch for DRIVERS, a Wellcome-funded project 'Identifying drivers of schistosomiasis treatment failure and recommendations for treatment strategies'
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Tuberculosis can lie dormant in the body for years, which makes it hard to detect and difficult to treat.
Sarah Schmidiger, postdoctoral researcher at Swiss TPH, breaks down how this 'sleeping bea...
Did you know that malaria can be classified as a “sleeping beast”? Dormant stages of malaria can stay in your body for a long period of time and evade treatment.
On World Malaria Day, PhD student ...
On World Chagas disease day, we look at the “sleeping beast” Chagas disease, which can evade treatment by entering a dormant stage.
Simon Feldkamp, PhD student at Swiss TPH working on Chagas diseas...
Malaria doesn’t just make you sick, it suffocates your organs from the inside. As parasites invade your blood cells, they trigger fevers, block vessels, and can shut down the brain itself.
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Webinário: Flebotomíneos e Leishmania: o que sabemos e como aplicar no controle da transmissão
Webinário: Flebotomíneos e Leishmania: o que sabemos e como aplicar no controle da transmissão.
A Dra. Yara é pesquisadora em saúde pública e atua no estudo das interações moleculares entre Leishm...
Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharziasis or “snail fever,” is a waterborne parasitic infection that damages internal organs. The most common symptoms are blood in urine or f...
Malaria has killed humans for millennia. From DDT to bed nets, vaccines, and genetically modified mosquitoes, we’ve pushed back... but resistance and climate change threaten progress. The war isn’t...
Puerto Rico hacia la eliminación
de la esquistosomiasis:
ciencia, historia y colaboración
En los hábitats de agua dulce de Puerto Rico, un grupo dedicado de científicos y profesionales de la salu...
El sarampión ha resurgido en nuestra región. Durante el año pasado y lo que va de este año, estamos observando brotes y transmisión sostenida en varios países. Se concentra la mayor cantidad de cas...
Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease caused by parasitic worms and transmitted through freshwater snails, affects 250 million people globally, wi...
On World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day, let’s not forget an inescapable reality: these diseases disproportionately affect those who have the least, especially poor communities, rural populations,...
Hybrid parasites threaten progress against one of the world’s most widespread neglected diseases
New research led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) warns that hybrid forms of the parasites that cause schistosomiasis are undermining existing disease control strategies and could ac...
American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (a form of American tegumentary leishmaniasis) is transmitted by sandflies and affects many villages in northern Brazil, including the state of Amapá. The disease can cause ...
Schistosomiasis affects 250 million people globally – Dr Bonnie Webster’s research is helping to tackle it. Find out more in her full guest lecture. #research #tropicaldiseases
New hope for preschoolers affected by parasitic disease!
Parents everywhere share one universal wish: for their children to be healthy...