News tagged with kissing bugs
X-ray diffraction may play key role in stopping 'kissing bug,' fungus
If finding the cure for a fungus and parasite that affects millions of people were the subject of a detective show, University of Missouri Chemistry Professor John Tanner would be the forensic expert in the lab, using high-tech ...
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Anti-Parasite Drugs for Neglected Chagas Disease Are in the Works
Larissa Podust, PhD, is working on a new drug for a neglected scourge, a chronic parasitic infection called Chagas disease. The parasite is carried and spread by the kissing bug.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 21, 2010 |
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The Kiss of Death: Research targets lethal disease spread by insect that bites lips
(PhysOrg.com) -- It makes your skin crawl -- a bug that crawls onto your lips while you sleep, drawn by the exhaled carbon dioxide, numbs your skin, bites, then gorges on your blood. And if that's not insult ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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To better control Chagas disease, focus funds more efficiently, scientists say
(PhysOrg.com) -- Controlling the bug that causes Chagas disease, a chronic infection of 10 million people worldwide with no available cures or vaccines, is the primary goal of public health officials in the developing world. ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Genetically distinct carriers of Chagas disease-causing parasite live together
Researchers have found living together the known carrier species for the Chagas disease-causing parasite Triatoma dimidiata (also known as "kissing bugs") and a cryptic species that looks the same — but is genetically distin ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 10, 2009 |
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