World AIDS Day 2023: Highlights from the BMC Series
World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1st, is as a global initiative dedicated to raising awareness about HIV/AIDS. Since its establishment in… Read more »
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AlertaChirimacha: Tracking Kissing Bugs Byte by Byte
With the success of kissing bug control programmes, monitoring these vectors of Chagas disease is becoming more and more difficult. New work in Peru… Read more »
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Mouth Cancer Awareness Month: improving patient outcomes with early diagnosis and treament
Whilst mouth cancer is not always widely discussed, there are concerning worldwide disparities which make it a significant global… Read more »
sNailed it: Unlocking the potential of citizen science to control and prevent snail-borne diseases
A groundbreaking approach, the ATRAP project - Action Towards Reducing Aquatic snail-borne Parasitic diseases - uses a Citizen… Read more »
Happy 10th birthday to BugBitten
I find it hard to believe that 10 years have passed since the BugBitten blog was born. Initiated by board members of Parasites… Read more »
Lessons from the successful elimination of trachoma in Togo
In May 2022, Togo was validated by the WHO for a significant milestone: its elimination of trachoma as a public health problem.… Read more »
New report of a bacterium that blocks malaria transmission
It is not often that malaria research makes it onto the BBC morning news, but it did so very recently, when the discovery of a… Read more »
The Potential Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Disease
A new review in the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty takes a look at papers examining the effect climate change will have on… Read more »
Are giardiasis-related pathologies caused only by certain Giardia duodenalis assemblages: Molecular epidemiology and assemblage typing of giardiasis infections along the southern shoreline of Lake Malawi
Of the eight morphologically identical but genetically distinct G. duodenalis assemblages A-H, almost all human infections are… Read more »
Training for Community Health Workers embraces the new normal
Community health workers in Bangladesh had to adapt quickly during COVID-19 to continue their accurate and much-needed support.… Read more »