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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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CTEGD grad students receive NIH fellowships for parasitic disease research >>Read More>>

In the News: Cyclospora expert Ynes Ortega >>Read More>>

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

Recent Publications

Micrographs of Trypanosoma cruzi cells labeled A, B, and C, with quantitative plots in D, E, and F, and time-lapse fluorescence microscopy images showing Piezo2-mediated organelle contacts in G, H, and I.

Membrane contact activation of Piezo2 drives lysosome-mitochondrion Ca2+ transfer and signaling in Trypanosoma cruzi >>Abstract>>

Scientific diagram of heme uptake in Trypanosoma cruzi, showing direct transport via ABCA10 and endocytosis of hemoproteins followed by proteolysis.

A global S-palmitoylation map of Trypanosoma cruzi identifies ABCA10 as a key component of a redundant heme-acquisition system >>Abstract>>

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>>

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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.