The crystal ball: predicting the next outbreak
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 know outbreaks are coming and… 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)
- Fungal compound inhibits transmission of malaria to mosquitoes - 4th October 2024
- Toxoplasma gondii – the good guy? - 16th August 2024
- Beauty and the Beast: malaria and its devastating impact on Hawaiian honeycreeper birds - 12th July 2024
5th International One Health Congress – a reflection
On 22nd – 25th June, experts from a diverse range of specialities and members of the public came together at the 5th International One Health Congress in… Read more »
Ever feel in your gut that you and your dog have more in common than you realized?
Dogs have long been considered our best friends, and people often joke that dogs and their owners grow to look alike over time. In actual fact, the similarities… Read more »
Quiz: BugBitten in 2017
In 2017 BugBitten reported on the latest research and events concerning the parasitology and vector biology community. As the year comes to a close, can you… Read more »
One Health – a joined up approach to tackling a global challenge
November 3rd is One Health Day, and it was initiated in 2016 to promote the One Health message of looking at planetary health as a cross disciplinary, global… Read more »
Space invaders: the challenges of studying microbes in space
Conducting research on Earth is challenging enough for most of us, but what if your research specialty is studying organisms in space? Kasthuri Venkateswaran… Read more »
Decline in malaria funding may put malaria elimination efforts at risk
Rima Shretta and her colleagues, recently published their findings on how the recent decline in funding could impact malaria elimination programs, especially in… Read more »
Space invaders…the dangers of fungi in space
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in space or on another world? One day it may be possible to do so, but whenever and wherever we colonize,… Read more »
Invasive plant increases malaria transmission
In their article published recently in Malaria Journal, Gunter Muller and colleagues show that the invasive plant, Prosopis juliflora, promotes malaria parasite… Read more »
ACT Now: ACTwatch shares their observations AND their Datasets
For nine years, ACTwatch has been monitoring the state of anti-malarial and diagnostic markets across sub-Saharan Africa and the Greater Mekong Sub-region.… Read more »