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.
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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 ...
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
Marc Hübner aims to identify new drug candidates against parasitic threadworms, so-called filariae, and developing them further for human use. To this end, new in vitro and in vivo models are being developed and identified candidates are being tested in clinical trials in humans. With oxfendazole ...
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
