Dengue: don’t you, forget about me!
At a time when we seem to hear only about COVID 19, it is easy to forget about other diseases that have had, and will continue to have, far more… Read more »
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Highlights of the BMC Series: August 2020
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An outbreak of intestinal schistosomiasis: What lies ahead for Malawi?
Malawi is endemic for urogenital schistosomiasis, however reports of intestinal schistosomiasis have pointed to the emergence of… Read more »
Driving malaria replication cycles
The malaria parasite undergoes cycles of replication with red blood cells that follow circadian rhythms. Recent work has examined… Read more »
A promising new avenue for anti-apicomplexan drug discovery
A novel compound, active against a range of single celled parasites, has recently been discovered in the symbiotic bacteria living… Read more »
Highlights of the BMC Series: July 2020
COVID-19 detection dogs • Work-life conflict and poor health • Social media in recruitment to surgical trials • Antibiotic… Read more »
Cytoplasmic incompatibility: an autocidal mechanism for mosquito population control
Cytoplasmic incompatibility resulting in non-reciprocal fertility is a naturally occurring phenomenon, but remains unexplored to… Read more »
How do we ensure Global Health research leads to practical solutions at the local level?
Paul Adepoju shares his experience with health-related research in Nigeria. A lot of research around the globe does not directly… Read more »
New insights on antibiotics use on crops amongst smallholder farmers
Philip Taylor and Robert Reeder, research scientists at CABI, did not start out looking for trends in antibiotic use in crops. In… Read more »
One size does not fit all: different vector-borne diseases impacted differently by climate change
Krisztian Magori reviews two recent papers on the differential impact of increasing temperatures due to climate change, reducing… Read more »