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New Drug Approved to Treat Human African Trypanosomiasis

December 4, 2018January 25, 2023 Lindsay Bonesteel

Image courtesy of Michael Wunderli on Flickr, CC Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is a potentially fatal neglected tropical disease.1 The

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Buruli Ulcer

September 12, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

    This week’s NTD is a condition that is produced by a bacterium belonging to the same family of microbes that cause leprosy and

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Foodborne Trematode Infections

September 5, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  Summer is the time of year when public health messaging reminds us of foodborne infections from bacteria like Salmonella, E.coli and Listeria. While these

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Soil-Transmitted Helminthiases

August 15, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  To further our NTD discussion from last week, this week we will be discussing soil-transmitted helminthiases. These are intestinal infections caused by parasitic worms,

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Schistosomiasis

August 8, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  As we continue to dive into the world of neglected tropical diseases, we find ourselves examining schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease whose impact reaches 200

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Leprosy

August 1, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  When a 4,000-year-old skeleton located in Rajasthan, India was unearthed in 2009, archeologists were not expecting to find Mycobacterium leprae present (1). This finding provided

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Guinea Worm Disease

July 12, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  Historically referred to as “little dragons”, this week’s NTD is Guinea worm disease. Guinea worm is caused by a parasitic worm that causes severe

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Onchocerciasis / River Blindness

June 25, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  As we officially reach the one-month mark of our summer series, “Shedding Light on NTDs”, we hope you are gaining insight and increasing your

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