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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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Dictyostelium is an amoeba that loves to crawl on glass, and the green stain prominently displays its cytoskeleton after the cells were fixed and permeabilized, using an anti-actin antibody. The new anti-O-fucose antibody, created by Tiwari, illustrates in red the concentration of O-fucose proteins within the nucleus, highlighted by the blue dye. One of the cells has 2 nuclei, and the white bar measures 5 microns.

UGA biochemists create new tool to study biological process in parasites >>Read More>>

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

FIgure 1 Amino acid alignment between GP60 sequences from all four C. parvum IOWA II genome assemblies analyzed.

New T2T assembly of Cryptosporidium parvum IOWA II annotated with Legacy-Compatible Gene identifiers >>Abstract>>

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The importance of persistence and dormancy in Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas diseaset >>Abstract>>

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Researchers in the University of Georgia’s West Laboratory are interested in how unicellular parasites thrive in their environments. Focusing on post-translational modifications of proteins, particularly a crucial process called glycosylation, researchers are gaining insights into how this basic life process in parasites can lead to better treatments for diseases. Read more