Post Co-authored with Edmundo Grisard and Patricia Stocco UFSC (Florianópolis) in Brazil In 2014 we are awash with data. Resequencing is modestly priced and a range of platform technologies provide terabytes of “-omics” information about the world’s great infectious diseases. On the parasites that cause them, the vectors that transmit them and on the host response to… Read more »
Guest post by Damer Blake and Fiona Tomley of the Royal Veterinary College, London. Chickens, like us, are vulnerable to a wide range of pests and pathogens. There are effective vaccines, drugs or disinfectants against some chicken diseases, but control of many others remains a distant prospect. Sequencing pathogen genomes can be a valuable step in developing new… Read more »
Worms that burrow into your skin are the stuff that nightmares are made of, yet approximately one billion people across the globe are infected with parasitic round worms that enter the body this way. They belong to a group of parasites known as soil-transmitted helminths and their tiny infective larvae have developed sophisticated foraging strategies… Read more »
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