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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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Type I interferons induce guanylate-binding proteins and lysosomal defense in hepatocytes to control malaria >>Abstract>>

The Y strain of Trypanosoma cruzi stably infects the vector Rhodnius prolixus.

Stable colonization of the model kissing bug Rhodnius prolixus by Trypanosoma cruzi Y strain >>Abstract>>

Co-localization of F-ara-EdU incorporation and cycling cell marker expression. Laser-scan confocal micrographs of H. diminuta stained by FISH for cycling cell markers mcm2/mcm7 followed by detection of S-phase marker, F-ara-EdU . Nuclei are labeled with DAPI.

Combined fluorescent in situ hybridization and F- ara-EdU staining on whole mount Hymenolepis diminuta >>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