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The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD) at the University of Georgia is one of the largest international centers of research focused on diseases of poverty. Researchers and students work together on some of the most important causes of human suffering around the world, including malaria, schistosomiasis, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, leishmaniasis, and filariasis.

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Photos of Graduate student Baihetiya “Barna” Baierna and postdoctoral fellow Mayara Bertolini

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Fig 1. Diagramatic section through the hollow fiber bioreactor.

Genomic and virulence analysis of in vitro cultured Cryptosporidium parvum >>Abstract>>

Figure 1. Calcium entry through the plasma membrane of extracellular T. gondii tachyzoites.

Regulation of Calcium entry by cyclic GMP signaling in Toxoplasma gondii >>Abstract>>

Fig. 1 Inherently reduced expression of pro–caspase-1 and ASC in hepatocytes.

Inherently Reduced Expression of ASC Restricts Caspase-1 Processing in Hepatocytes and Promotes Plasmodium Infection >>Abstract>>

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