Parasites are organisms existing in or on another living thing from which they obtain nutrients and which they cause harm.
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Parasites include animals, plants, fungi or bacteria. They are detrimental to their hosts as they obtain their energy from them but also because they may release toxins and harm the host mechanically by damaging skin and tissue. Examples for parasitic organisms are lice, tapeworms and the malariapathogenPlasmodium.
While our understanding of the immune response to malaria improves, an efficient malaria vaccine remains elusive. We intend to use blood stage attenuated parasites which can be transmitted through mosquitoes as tools to dissect human responses to malaria parasites and as a novel vaccination strategy ...
At the University Hospital of Tübingen, a clinical trial led by Prof. Dr. Peter Kremsner, Director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine and Human Parasitology and Dr. Rolf Fendel
Worms and other parasites cause numerous and widespread tropical diseases which are largely overlooked. At the DZIF, research teams are focused on fighting these diseases. Since August 2020
Malaria continues to account for approximately half a million deaths each year. Children in highly endemic regions in Africa are the most severely affected. To date, an effective vaccine against malaria does not exist. In Tübingen, a vaccination approach which leads to full immunity against malaria ...
Each year, over 200 million people worldwide contract malaria. The malaria pathogens, called plasmodia, are transmitted by mosquitoes and pass through different stages of development in the liver and red blood cells. Humans develop immunity against the disease after having been routinely exposed to ...
A Microscopy Unit was established at the Heidelberg Partner Site for research groups from the research field “Hepatitis” and other research fields including “Emerging Infections” in particular. The Microscopy Unit enables research groups to conduct their analyses and investigate live cells and ...