Bed bugs become a new target of the wonder drug ivermectin
Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug, for which discovery the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded, is presently under development to become an… Read more »
Ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug, for which discovery the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded, is presently under development to become an… Read more »
Coccidioidomycosis (aka "cocci", or Valley Fever) is a fungal infection caused by two species of Coccidioides fungi, infecting thousands of people in the… Read more »
On Friday, August 19, 2016, following the detection of local transmission of Zika virus on Miami Beach, the US CDC has suggested that pregnant women and their… Read more »
Arthropod-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease and the Zika virus, seem to be emerging and re-emerging at an alarming rate in the last few years. In this post,… Read more »
Krisztian Magori explains how he used a disease ecology capstone class to expose the medical professionals of the future to the concepts and topics of disease… Read more »
Luke Alphey, Group Leader of Vector-borne Viral Diseases at the Pirbright Institute in the UK, former Research Director of Oxitec Ltd., answers our questions on… Read more »
As a follow-up to last weeks post on genetic control of mosquitoes, I invited Derric Nimmo, the head of public health research at Oxitec, for a friendly chat… Read more »
Genetic control methods, such as those containing Wolbachia, or the Oxitec solution, are ready to be deployed against Aedes aegypti to control dengue,… Read more »
While a group of dedicated researchers develop novel method to control ticks, these tiny arachnids take revenge by spreading further and infecting people and… Read more »
We caught up with Dr. Peter Hotez to ask him about his recent paper in PLOS NTD on the worm index and human development, NTDs in general, and his concept of… Read more »