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One Health and the community – interview with Professor Esron Karimuribo

21/09/2018 Srimathy Sriskantharajah

Community is central to the One Health concept. In a two part interview, we talk to Professor Esron Karimuribo from the Southern African Centre for Infectious… Read more »

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Switching on the production of malaria sexual stages

14/09/2018 Hilary Hurd

A new study sheds further light on the transcription factor that acts as a master switch that turns on the production of sexual stages in the malaria life cycle.

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Mind altering microbes: can Toxoplasma gondii infection increase entrepreneurship?

11/09/2018 Srimathy Sriskantharajah

Toxoplasma gondii infection is thought to alter the personalities of infected individuals (whether rats or humans) by increasing risk-taking behaviors. Studies have… Read more »

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Wolbachia is ready for prime time!

07/09/2018 Krisztian Magori

Here, Krisztian Magori summarizes the most recent updates from the World Mosquito Program on the success of scaled deployment of… Read more »

The future looks bright for trachoma elimination

31/08/2018 Cara Macfarlane

With elimination of trachoma as a public health problem targeted for 2020, it is timely to reflect on the progress made so far and… Read more »

Bringing light into the dark: investigating ectoparasites of tiny nocturnal primates

24/08/2018 Annette Klein and Christina Strube

Ectoparasites are of particular importance to endangered wildlife. Following on from their paper published in Parasites &… Read more »

Mind control from beyond the host: Tapeworm increases risky behaviour even in uninfected group members

17/08/2018 Skye Marshall

Sticklebacks infected with tapeworms are known to show risky behaviour and swim to the water surface. Not shown before, is that… Read more »

Where can we expect the longhorned tick to go (in the US)?

10/08/2018 Krisztian Magori

Krisztian Magori shares his preliminary analysis of the potential distribution of the longhorned tick in North America and the… Read more »

Trematode soldiers

03/08/2018 Hilary Hurd

Larval stages of some flukes produce a soldier caste that helps to protect the colony if another species of fluke invades their… Read more »

The crystal ball: predicting the next outbreak

27/07/2018 Srimathy Sriskantharajah

Just after the 2014 Ebola outbreak, Bill Gates gave a TED talk entitled The next outbreak? We’re not ready. The irony is that we… Read more »