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New Tests Promise Rapid and Accurate Detection of Malaria

...than 10 minutes the most common and deadly malaria parasite in the tropics, Plasmodum falciparum. Dr. Trenten Ruebush is a senior malaria advisor at USAID in Washington. The major reason everyone is interested in RDTs, he adds, "is that [the cost] of the new combination malaria drugs introduced through...

Health Officials Urges to Launch Campaign Against Counterfeit Malaria Drugs

... Control, said recently. Akunyili said that the parasite already has grown resistant to chloroquine and fansidar and that if ACTs became ineffective, it would be difficult to find another malaria treatment. Publicity and awareness on the issue can help combat counterfeit drugs, Akunyili said, adding tha...

Unknown Sickness Kills US Honeybees

...ast half of their bee population. Sometime back, a parasite called varroa mite had devastated many beehives and their populations in US. Though such incidences are common occurrences, the current one seems to top it all. Researchers from Penn State, the University of Montana and the U.S. Department of Agri...

Whirling Disease Causes Culling of Thousands of Trout

...e enough for release, had apparently picked up the parasite from wild trout in the river. The department has asked that those catching fish follow certain precautions to reduce the possibility of spreading spores of the harmful organism. Fish should not be moved between streams and fish carcasses should n...

Incidence of Malaria Has Come Down, Says Economic Survey

... According to it, in some parts of the country the parasite has developed resistance to widely used anti-malaria drug chloroquine. "The government has introduced a new drug combination of Aretemisinin plus Sulfadoxine-Pyremethamine for treating such resistant cases," said the survey. Rapid Diagnostic Test...

Cheap Anti-malarial Drug

...t in most cases. This has resulted in the malarial parasite developing a resistance to artesunate which is the main component in the malarial therapy. But with ASAQ, the therapy is a combination of artesunate and the amodiaquine in one tablet. In children, smaller doses of ASAQ are recommended. The greatest...

Wake Up to Sleeping Sickness Issue, Say Scientists

... risk of infection from the disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma. Yet only 20 per cent of these people ...icated that the two types of the sleeping sickness parasite — gambiese from West Africa and rhodesiense from Zimbabwe — are likely to overlap in Uganda, making ...

Malaria-resistant Mosquito Developed

... insects were infected with a higher amount of the parasite than occurs in nature, and a larger proportion of ..., but a lot of its properties are specific to that parasite and it is not always a good model for the human form, he said. "On the other hand, finding a gene ...

Cryptosporidium Outbreak in South Australia

... swimming pools', she added. The cryptosporidium parasite is known to cause diarrhoea, fever and vomiting, with symptoms lasting two weeks or longer. It can even kill the extremely frail. There is no drug treatment for the infection and the organism is highly resistant to chlorine.The Health Department ...

A New Pathway To Deal With Sleeping Sickness

A research published online in EMBO says that the parasite that is responsible for sleeping sickness can be// made inactive by a new pathway. Sleeping sickness is caused by Trypanosoma brucei which results in neurological damage and death. Shulamit Michaeli and colleagues describe a pathway in T. brucei pa...

Ancient Worm Disease Could Be Eradicated Within Two Years, UN Agency Reports

...s, the scientific name for the disease caused by a parasite found in Egyptian mummies and thought to be the “fiery serpent” often referred to in texts from pharaonic Egypt and Assyrian Mesopotamia. In the early 1980s, an estimated 3 million people in more than 20 countries were infected. Today, this has dro...

Water Crisis Wreaks Havoc on Irish City

... supply in Galway has been hit by an outbreak of a parasite called cryptosporidium, with up to 170 people now ...e disease has been triggered by cryptosporidium, a parasite commonly found in lakes and rivers, especially when the water is contaminated with sewage and animal...

Single Drug Dose Cures Malaria in Mice

...ns. The most commonly fatal species of the malaria parasite now shows strong resistance to most current treatments, making the development of effective new drugs a worldwide priority. Since 1992, Posner and his team, which includes collaborator Theresa Shapiro, Professor and Chair of clinical pharmacology ...

Vanishing Honey Bees

... found genes of the single-celled, spore-producing parasite Nosema ceranae, which are capable of wiping out a bee hive. Jeffery Pettis, research leader for the U.S. Agriculture Department's Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville is of the opinion that “Mostly we think of Nosema as a stress disorder of honey...

Useful Parasites

...w it has spread from south to north. Earlier the parasite was s seen to decrease the fertility of the infect...eks told LiveScience. It is yet to be seen how the parasite activates such fertility. Weeks is speculating on the fact that maybe, it produces some nutritional ...

HIV Drugs Unaffordable for Common Man: Kalam

...be genetically altered later to attack the Malaria parasite when it reaches the Mosquitoes."...

Malaria Parasite can Cause Severe Lymphatic Cancer

...d whether CIDR1, a protein produced by the malaria parasite could reactivate EBV, by exposing the immune cells...alaria after that. So if you are exposed again the parasite cannot stimulate the overproduction of cells, News Scientist quoted Qijun Chen, as saying. The fin...

New Insights into Antimalarial Drug Resistance

...cessary to molecularly understand how the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum ( P. falciparum ), has bec...alaria, which is caused by a single-cell protozoan parasite transmitted by the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito. There are about 160 different species of...

IDRI and Chembio to Develop Tests for Leishmaniasis and Leprosy

... for affected populations globally. The leishmania parasite affects millions of people worldwide, while leprosy continues to be an important public health problem, with approximately one million new cases per year. Access to better diagnostic tools will be essential for control of theses diseases. About Le...

Mutant Parasites, Unable to Infect Hosts, Highlight Virulence Genes

...d nearly 40 genes that, when mutated in the common parasite Toxoplasma gondii, prevented the parasite from forming an infection in the brains of mice. These potential "virulence factors" offer a smorgas...

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