Trypanosomatid parasites in bees… taking a walk on the wild side?
The trypanosomatid parasite Crithidia mellificae infects managed honeybees, but could it also affect wild bees? A recent article investigates.
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Drugs, Tayto CRISP[R]s and other parasite craic in Belfast
This year, the British Society for Parasitology Autumn Symposium was hosted by Queens University Belfast (QUB) in Northern Ireland, a country home to Tayto Castle… Read more »
Reduced prevalence of soil-transmitted helminthiases worldwide: sustaining control to reap the benefits
Worldwide, an estimated 880 million children need treatment for soil-transmitted helminthiases. A new paper shows how implementing preventive chemotherapy for more… Read more »
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The relentless march of falciparum malaria (the deadly parasite) in India
The very recent decline in malaria cases caused by Plasmodium falciparum in India is good news but disease burden close to half a… Read more »
Lizards choose to “keep their cool” when dealing with ticks
Lizards use "behavioural hypothermia" to reduce the negative impact of tick infestations, another example of parasite infections… Read more »
Meet the winners of the Odile Bain Memorial Prize 2019
The Odile Bain Memorial Prize, established in 2014, was created to recognize early career scientists who have made significant… Read more »
Big step towards predicting West Nile virus transmission risk by combining citizen science and phylogenetic imputation
Krisztian Magori reviews a recent paper by Kain and Bolker on using citizen-science derived bird community data and phylogenetic… Read more »
Reconciling disease risk with livelihood needs in high schistosomiasis transmission settings
Discussions with villagers in Senegal reveal high levels of schistosomiasis knowledge but inevitable contact with water for daily… Read more »
Making it cheaper to track genetically-modified mosquito releases
Mass-rearing and mass-releasing sterile insects is a technique to eliminate harmful insects or to transform a species so that it… Read more »
Can trials of spatial repellents be used to estimate mosquito movement?
The thousands of movements of individual mosquitoes ultimately shape the pattern of malaria infection in the community. Mosquito… Read more »
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