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Vector control – is it all in the attitude?
International travel, trade, climate change, migration and conflict can all facilitate the spread of infectious diseases and their vectors from their ‘usual’ endemic regions to non-endemic regions....
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BugBitten & Bizarre – some of the surprising facts we learned in 2022
Dear Readers, thank you for joining BugBitten as we covered some of the events and advances in our understanding of parasites and their vectors. Here, I have highlighted some of the rather unexpected...
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All jumbled up – Bugbitten themed anagrams
Dear Readers, Welcome to BugBitten in 2023. We thought we would start the year with a parasitologically-themed anagram puzzle. All words were used in one of our blogs of 2022. Enjoy with your...
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Under our feet…soil bacterium highly virulent against malaria mosquito
A team based in Burkino Faso show that Chromobacterium anophelis sp. nov. IRSSSOUMB001 – a bacterial strain native to the country – is highly virulent against the larval form of Anopheles coluzzi...
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A jab at malaria – WHO, GAVI and UNICEF announce mass vaccine distribution plans
On July 5th, WHO, GAVI and UNICEF announced that 18 million first doses of the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01 will be made available to 12 countries in Africa between 2023 and 2025. This is a massive boost...
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Locally acquired malaria in Europe and the US
In June 2023, concerning news of locally acquired malaria was reported in the US – the first such cases in twenty years. At the time, there were fears that these could be the first signs in an...
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Join us for a coffee/ tea break and enjoy our parasite themed puzzles
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Vampires exist…in the viral world at least
This past Halloween, in what could be described as timely coincidence, Tagide deCarvalho and colleagues published their study of the first known ‘vampire’ virus.
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A class above: novel antibiotics that works against highly resistant bacteria
Claudia Zampaloni and colleagues have identified a new class of antibiotic chemicals - tethered macrocyclic peptides (MCP) that have proven effective against Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter...
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Clocking out: knocking out circadian clock gene disrupts key functions in...
Removing vital genes that affect a creature’s behaviour could be a way to ameliorate the impact of disease vectors such as mosquitoes. Vinaya Shetty and colleagues describe the effects of knocking out...
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