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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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Cellular biology graduate student receives American Heart Association fellowship >>Read More>>

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

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Flowchart illustrating the steps from stool sample collection to DNA extraction, pooling, genome-targeted enrichment through single and double capture, library prep, and sequencing of Cryptosporidium in an Illumina instrument.

Genome-targeted enrichment and sequencing of human-infecting Cryptosporidium spp >>Abstract>>

Four panels (A-D) show fluorescence microscopy images of cells under different treatments, utilizing intrinsically fluorescent antimalarials to facilitate visualization while minimizing imaging artifacts. Panels E and F display scatter plots with quantifications, labeled axes, and comparisons marked ns for not significant.

Navigating imaging artifacts: challenges with visualizing intrinsically fluorescent antimalarials >>Abstract>>

Bar graph, immunofluorescence images, and dot plots showing protein enrichment scores and nuclear intensity of ReIB and p52 in WT, Δmyr1, and Δmyr1::MYR1 cells illustrate how Toxoplasma gondii effectors modulate the non-canonical NF-κB pathway.

A suite of eight Toxoplasma gondii effectors cooperates to activate the non-canonical NF-κB pathway >>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.