BugBitten 2022 November

Liver stage malaria parasites: does it matter where they are located?

25/11/2022 Hilary Hurd

Malaria parasites multiply in liver cells prior to invading red blood cells. Recent work has been investigating whether the position of a host cell within the liver architecture affects parasite growth and survival

#TraeTuChipo: citizen science for the surveillance of Chagas disease

18/11/2022 Karina Mondragon-Shem

This neglected disease remains a public health issue in many countries, including Venezuela. One project aims to provide real-time information on the distribution of triatomines using the help of Venezuelans to keep an eye out for the bugs around them.

Developing World Health Medicine

What’s in a worm? The microbiota of horse ascarids.

BLM Nevada, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

11/11/2022 Anouk Gouvras

Researchers at the University of Kentucky undertook the first study and characterization of the microbiota of an ascarid parasite, of an equine parasite and of the differential microbiota in organs of a parasitic nematode.

Biology Health

Monthly Archives: November 2022

Liver stage malaria parasites: does it matter where they are located?

#TraeTuChipo: citizen science for the surveillance of Chagas disease

What’s in a worm? The microbiota of horse ascarids.