Toxoplasma gondii – the good guy?
Can a pathogen ‘change its spots’? Apparently, with a bit of genetic engineering, it can. Shahar Bracha and colleagues have engineered… Read more »
Srimathy Sriskantharajah
Srimathy Sriskantharajah completed a BSc in Microbiology (UCL) and a PhD in environmental microbiology/ atmospheric chemistry (Royal Holloway University of London) before joining BioMed Central. Srimathy blogs about microbiology, infectious diseases and the environment amongst other things.
Srimathy is the Executive Publisher for Parasites & Vectors, Malaria Journal and other microbiology/ infectious diseases journals at BioMed Central.
Srimathy is the Executive Publisher for Parasites & Vectors, Malaria Journal and other microbiology/ infectious diseases journals at BioMed Central.
Latest posts by Srimathy Sriskantharajah (see all)
- Toxoplasma gondii – the good guy? - 16th August 2024
- Beauty and the Beast: malaria and its devastating impact on Hawaiian honeycreeper birds - 12th July 2024
- World Malaria Day: talking about malaria everyday - 26th April 2024
Beauty and the Beast: malaria and its devastating impact on Hawaiian honeycreeper birds
Malaria is a disease that has plagued humanity for millennia, but it is not just a threat to humans: it infects other animals including birds such as the… Read more »
World Malaria Day: talking about malaria everyday
April 25th 2024 marks World Malaria Day, a time when the disease is highlighted in the media and brought to the general public’s attention for a time.… Read more »
Clocking out: knocking out circadian clock gene disrupts key functions in Aedes mosquitoes
Removing vital genes that affect a creature’s behaviour could be a way to ameliorate the impact of disease vectors such as mosquitoes. Vinaya Shetty and… Read more »
A class above: novel antibiotics that works against highly resistant bacteria
Claudia Zampaloni and colleagues have identified a new class of antibiotic chemicals - tethered macrocyclic peptides (MCP) that have proven effective against… Read more »
Vampires exist…in the viral world at least
This past Halloween, in what could be described as timely coincidence, Tagide deCarvalho and colleagues published their study of the first known… Read more »
September’s BugBitten puzzler
Join us for a coffee/ tea break and enjoy our parasite themed puzzles
Locally acquired malaria in Europe and the US
In June 2023, concerning news of locally acquired malaria was reported in the US – the first such cases in twenty years. At the time, there were fears that… Read more »
A jab at malaria – WHO, GAVI and UNICEF announce mass vaccine distribution plans
On July 5th, WHO, GAVI and UNICEF announced that 18 million first doses of the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01 will be made available to 12 countries in Africa… Read more »
Under our feet…soil bacterium highly virulent against malaria mosquito
A team based in Burkino Faso show that Chromobacterium anophelis sp. nov. IRSSSOUMB001 – a bacterial strain native to the country – is highly… Read more »