Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine intensifies One Health research
Holistic infection research considers humans, animals, habitats, climate and environmental conditions in context. The Bernhard Nocht…
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Combination drug against malaria
New antimalarial drugs are mostly tested only for malaria tropica, but not for other malaria pathogens. Although available preparations are…
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The immune system: How are mosquitoes coping with their viruses?
Why can mosquitoes transmit certain viruses to humans (arboviruses) and not others (insect-specific viruses)? To find out, the research…
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Malaria parasites compensate the fitness cost of resistance to the frontline drug artemisinin
A new study on nutrient permeable channels (NPCs) in the parasitophorous vacuolar membrane of malaria parasites highlights the permeability…
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