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.
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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
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This year, the Memento Research Award for neglected diseases goes to Professor Jürgen May from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) in Hamburg. The jury honours his longstanding
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This year, the Memento Research Award for neglected diseases goes to Dr Carsten Köhler and Prof Peter Kremsner from the Institute of Tropical Diseases at the University Hospital Tübingen. With this
