Blogs about: Parasitology
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Rocketboom: Fighting Malaria in Kenya
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MicrobiologyBytes
Microbiology and Immunology On-Line from University of South Carolina School of Medicine
nltnlibrary wrote 2 days ago: This internet textbook covers all aspects of microbiology and immunology and is based on a course f … more »
Dictionary of Parasitology
OWNER wrote 3 days ago: Dictionary of Parasitology Publisher: CRC | 005-06-24 | 480 pages | ISBN: 0415308550 | 5.94 MB Alt … more »
BILBO and the trypanosomes
ajcann wrote 1 week ago: Trypanosoma brucei is a pathogen which causes epidemics of human and animal sleeping sickness in ce … more »
Guinea Worm Disease
ajcann wrote 1 week ago: RSS subscribers - visit site to view video Humans are hosts to nearly 300 species of par … more »
PhD positions in Modern Biology - Lausanne University
Mr. DiJey wrote 3 months ago: The International PhD Program provides training and research opportunities to highly motivated gradu … more »
1,000 year old Lice on Peruvian Mummies tell us of early human migrations
Kambiz Kamrani wrote 3 months ago: John Hawks shared an interesting news bit the other day. The study basically sampled head lice off o … more »
Malaria, mosquitoes and the legacy of Ronald Ross
ajcann wrote 3 months ago: Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium. … more »
Toxoplasma gondii and heart transplant recipients
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ajcann wrote 6 months ago: A quarter of the world population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, a long-lived and common brain … more »
Tough Choices - DDT or Malaria?
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ajcann wrote 7 months ago: The organochlorine compound DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) was first synthesized in 1874, b … more »
Parasite genomes
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ajcann wrote 7 months ago: Parasitic infections continue to bring misery and death to millions of people in developing countrie … more »
Lean and Mean Invasion Machines
ajcann wrote 10 months ago: Apicomplexans are the pathogens responsible for malaria, toxoplasmosis, and crytposporidiosis in hum … more »
Amoeba threat to contact lens wearers
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ajcann wrote 11 months ago: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), collaborating with the Food and Drug Administration and … more »
Malaria is a continuing danger to UK travellers
ajcann wrote 1 year ago: New figures from the Health Protection Agency show that there were 1758 cases of malaria reported in … more »
Malaria: now you see me, now you don't
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ajcann wrote 1 year ago: One of the main problems in fighting malaria is the speed with which the organism seems to be able t … more »
Parasite hijacks the mind of its host
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MC wrote 1 year ago: It sounds like something from a science fiction film: a parasite that enters the brain and manipulat … more »
GSK, Guinea Worm, African Horse Sickness and HIV Budding
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ajcann wrote 1 year ago: Globorix: GSK - good pharma or bad pharma? Europe’s largest drugs company, GSK, is starting … more »
Cancer, malaria, scholarships and DNA
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ajcann wrote 1 year ago: SV40 and human cancer A few months ago, I recorded a podcast about whether there is a role for SV4 … more »
Parasite manipulates host's sense of smell
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MC wrote 1 year ago: Parasites employ various strategies to increase their chances of reproducing. Some do so by manipula … more »
Marine cyanophages, Influenza, Trichomonas vaginalis and Gonorrhea
ajcann wrote 1 year ago: Marine cyanophages and light Abstract: In contrast to the phages of heterotrophic hosts, light can p … more »
