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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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UGA researchers develop first test of cure for Chagas disease >>Read More>>

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Kurup wins prestigious PATH award for groundbreaking malaria research >>Read More>>

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Gene regulation in Cryptosporidium: New insights and unanswered questions >>Abstract>>

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Highly cross-reactive and competent effectors dominate the CD8+ T cell response in Trypanosoma cruzi infection >>Abstract>>

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Protocol for laboratory rearing and infection tracking of Rhodnius prolixus using 3D-printable designs >>Abstract>>

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The Tarleton Research Group at the University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases discusses the importance of persistence and dormancy in Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas disease in a review published in Current Opinion in Microbiology.