Infecting mosquitoes with a bacterial parasite could help prevent the spread of lymphatic filariasis, one of the major neglected tropical diseases of the developing world, according to research ...

Infecting mosquitoes with a bacterial parasite could help prevent the spread of lymphatic filariasis, ... Parasite Bacteria May Help Fight Spread Of Mosquito-borne Diseases Date: October 2, 2009 ...

If A-WOL can break this partnership between worms and bacteria, which has been around for 100 million years, he could improve some 150 million lives. This article has been adapted from Ed Yong’s ...

Infections with worms from the filarial group, also known as filariasis, can lead to river blindness and, if left untreated, to elephantiasis - a disease in which extremities become greatly ...

AWZ1066S, a highly specific anti-Wolbachia drug candidate for a short-course treatment of filariasis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2019; 201816585 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1816585116 ...

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has received a $23 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help victims of human filariasis -- a worm infection which causes some of the ...

Filariasis refers to a group of diseases caused by parasitic worms, which are transmitted by blood feeding insects. ... Whilst the bacteria are beneficial for the nematode, ...