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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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Fig 1 Lipophilic bisphosphonates inhibited the viability of in vitro differentiated bradyzoites.

Lipophilic bisphosphonates reduced cyst burden and ameliorated hyperactivity of mice chronically infected with Toxoplasma gondii >>Abstract>>

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Acidocalcisome localization of membrane transporters and enzymes in Trypanosoma brucei >>Abstract>>

Fig 1. RON11 is essential for intraerythrocytic growth.

Plasmodium RON11 triggers biogenesis of the merozoite rhoptry pair and is essential for erythrocyte invasion >>Abstract>>

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Plasmodium falciparum cannot invade human red blood cells when essential protein RON11 is knocked out. The arrowhead points to the parasite. The larger cells are human red blood cells.

Anaguano D, Adewale-Fasoro O, Vick GW, Yanik S, Blauwkamp J, Fierro MA, et al. (2024) Plasmodium RON11 triggers biogenesis of the merozoite rhoptry pair and is essential for erythrocyte invasion. PLoS Biol 22(9): e3002801. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002801