Infection Control Today - Tropical Diseases

Travelers With IBD Not at Higher Risk of Contracting Intestinal Infections

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) travelers have an increased risk of illness during trips to industrialized countries, but not to developing or tropical regions, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. "Inflammatory bowel disease patients are ...More

2 weeks ago

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Researchers Report Fundamental Malaria Discovery

A team of researchers led by Kasturi Haldar and Souvik Bhattacharjee of the University of Notre Dame's Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases has made a fundamental discovery in understanding how malaria parasites cause deadly disease. The researchers show how parasites ...More

3 weeks ago

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New Malaria Maps to Guide Battle Against the Disease

A new suite of malaria maps has revealed in unprecedented detail the current global pattern of the disease, allowing researchers to see how malaria has changed over a number of years. ...More

3 weeks ago

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Researchers Discover a Potential Target for Schistosomiasis Vaccine

In the complicated life cycle of ancient flatworms that cause schistosomiasis, Case Western Reserve University researchers have identified a gene activator crucial to development of the parasites within humans – a potential target for a vaccine. A description of the ...More

January 5, 2012

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As One Type of Malaria Declines, New Map Reveals Another Strain Holding Steady

With signs of declining malaria deaths in Africa raising hopes of eradicating the disease worldwide, researchers unveiled today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) a new malaria map that is the first to identify on a global ...More

December 5, 2011

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New Experimental Vaccine Against Chikungunya Virus is Developed

Researchers have developed a new candidate vaccine to protect against chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen that produces an intensely painful and often chronic arthritic disease that has stricken millions of people in India, Southeast Asia and Africa. A single dose ...More

August 12, 2011

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Internet Search Queries Can Help Monitor Epidemics, Could Quicken Public Health Response

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Google.org have found web-based search data to be a viable source of information for early detection and monitoring of outbreaks of dengue, an emerging mosquito-borne virus found in tropical areas of the world. Because search ...More

May 31, 2011

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Bacterium Found to Kill Malaria in Mosquitoes

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have identified a bacterium in field-caught mosquitoes that, when present, stops the development of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria in humans. According to the study, the Enterobacter ...More

May 13, 2011

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Scientists Show That HIV Drugs Can Also Target Tropical Parasites

Scientists have discovered that drugs used to treat HIV may also one day become lifesaving drugs targeted at parasitic diseases such as leishmaniasis and malaria. According to new research published in The FASEB Journal, scientists have identified the target of action for ...More

May 9, 2011

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Malaria Exhibit at CDC Shows "Blood, Sweat and Tears" Shed to Fight the Disease

Photographer Adam Nadel answers questions at the opening of the exhibit Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears. The mosquito kills more people than any other creature in the world. That's one message from Malaria: Blood, Sweat, and Tears, a public health exhibit with photographs ...More

April 29, 2011

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