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Research Spotlight
Parasitology of Chagas disease
CIR, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan
Merida, Mexico
Our general interest is to develop tools for the control of Chagas disease through an interdisciplinary approach covering the development of vector control strategies, therapeutic treatments, and vaccines. The main control strategy with a proven efficacy is based on the elimination of insect vectors from houses using insecticides and housing improvement. Such programs have still not been implemented in the...
News
Rice Bowl supports farmers feeding families, communities - The Catholic Spirit
The Kiss That Lasts: Congenital Chagas Disease in the US - AAP Grand Rounds (registration)
Chagas disease surveillance focuses on palms, undercover bugs - EurekAlert (press release)
Medical Tourism Meets Volunteering Hands~ A Student's Journey to Honduras - Medical Tourism
Recent Studies
Role of GP82 in the Selective Binding to Gastric Mucin during Oral Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi.
Staquicini DI, Martins RM, Macedo S, Sasso GR, Atayde VD, Juliano MA, Yoshida N
Trypanosoma cruzi Lineages Detected in Congenitally Infected Infants and Triatoma infestans from the Same Disease-Endemic Region under Entomologic Surveillance in Paraguay.
Puerto FD, Sánchez Z, Nara E, Meza G, Paredes B, Ferreira E, Russomando G
Peritoneum from Trypanosoma cruzi-infected mice is a homing site of Syndecan-1neg plasma cells which mainly provide non-parasite-specific antibodies.
Merino MC, Montes CL, Acosta-Rodriguez EV, Bermejo DA, Amezcua-Vesely MC, Gruppi A
Trypanosoma cruzi: Synergistic cytotoxicity of multiple amphipathic anti-microbial peptides to T. cruzi and potential bacterial hosts.
Fieck A, Hurwitz I, Kang AS, Durvasula R
