The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal ...

Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness, represents a paradigm of parasite evolution and immune evasion. Its ability to periodically change its variant surface ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed Nigeria among the 20 countries in the African region that require trachoma elimination ...

Trachoma, a bacterial eye infection that can lead to blindness if untreated, has plagued Senegalese communities for over a century.

The World Health Organisation has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. The WHO, which ...

Here we use cryogenic electron microscopy to determine the structure of TbAQP2 from Trypanosoma brucei, bound to either the substrate glycerol or to the sleeping sickness drugs, pentamidine or ...

When you think of animals that might be among the most dangerous in the world to humans, you typically think of sharks, ...

Zoonotic diseases, which are illnesses transmitted from animals to humans, have increasingly become a pressing public health issue in Kenya and across Africa, experts say. The diseases are silently ...

Every July 6, scientists around the world use this day to educate people about the risks of zoonotic diseases and how to prevent getting them. In 1885, on this day, the world got its first human ...

The authors study how apolipoprotein L1 variants impact inflammation and lipid accumulation in macrophages. The findings will be useful for researchers investigating macrophage metabolism and ...