Parasites are organisms existing in or on another living thing from which they obtain nutrients and which they cause harm.
Detailed description
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.
From 18 to 24 November, the “World AMR Awareness Week” (WAAW), a global campaign proclaimed by WHO, aims to draw attention to the near-pandemic rise in infections caused by resistant microbial
Every year at least 700,000 people die as a result of infection with antibiotic-resistant bacteria—a figure which according to WHO forecasts could rise to ten million people by 2050 without new
Dr. Victoria Ingham from Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) is investigating the potential dual effect of a new insecticide for mosquito nets. The
More than one billion people worldwide are at risk of illness, disfigurement, disability, and even death from neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Especially in the poorest regions of the world where
Dr. Victoria Ingham, a scientist at Heidelberg Medical Faculty and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million euro for her research on the
The use of insecticides has been very successful in controlling the transmission of malaria pathogens over the past decades. However, this success is threatened by the widespread and intense levels of insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes, which transmit malaria. The working group of ...
