Tag: Parasitology

Global synthesis reveals bird traits that promote Lyme and flags high-risk speciesCredit: Credit: Fyn Kynd. Birds play an underrecognized role ...

Credit: MU College of Veterinary Medicine COLUMBIA, Mo. - In 2016, the World Health Organization called the Zika virus epidemic ...

Credit: Colourbox. Every year, more than 400,000 people die from malaria, the majority are children under the age of five ...

Credit: William W. Turechek, Ole Myhrene, Janet Slovin, and Natalia A. Peres In the strawberry nursery industry, a nursery's reputation ...

Credit: Photo credit: Gan Cheong Weei. Many animal and insect species use Batesian mimicry - mimicking a poisonous species - ...

Wits University scientists, with local and global partners have artificially infected mosquitoes with human malaria and identified a new chemical ...

Credit: Tuomas Kankaanpaa Climate and changes in it have direct impacts on species of plant and animals - but climate ...

Credit: Adapted from ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00685 Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a deadly disease caused by the "brain-eating ...

Common bacteria naturally transmitted between insects found to make them less susceptible to insecticides used to control their numbersCredit: University ...

Credit: Joseph Hoyt of Virginia Tech Since 2006, a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome has caused sharp declines in bat ...

Discovery by Brazilian scientists paves the way for the study of more potent molecules capable of directly destroying parasites underlying ...

Gates Foundation grant targets global elimination of onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasisCredit: Peter Fischer Global campaigns to eliminate two tropical parasitic worm ...

Credit: Albin Fontaine and Céline Jourdan, 2020 (CCBY 2.0) The Asian tiger mosquito does not pose a major risk for ...

Credit: Image credit: Francis J. Santoriello Researchers at The City College of New York have uncovered a novel way in ...