Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts disproportionately more black people than white people. Thus, there is a huge burden of kidney healthcare costs among black people all over the ...

Our study thus confirmed what was found in people of African descent in the US: the genetic origin underpinning the excess ...

A comprehensive strategy that combines pharmacological advances, vector control, public outreach to raise awareness and ...

Parasite genetics is the study of the genetic material of parasites, including the distribution, function and evolution of genes and genomes. All genomes are replicated in a temporal order, though ...

Civil unrest in key endemic regions, such as the Central African Republic and southwestern Cameroon, has hindered disease ...

Everything about Parasite’s story of the poor Kim family conning their way into the lives of those above them (both figuratively and literally) in the Korean social strata still works ...

Guinea has eliminated the human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness as a public health problem. It has managed to control the gambiense form of the disease to below the World Health ...

Conakry: Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is ... flies and is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The Trypanosoma parasite enters the central nervous system, causing symptoms including ...

Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis commonly known as sleeping sickness as a public health problem according ...

CONAKRY, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness ... is caused by protozoan parasites transmitted ...

The Human African Trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, is a potentially fatal disease caused by parasites called Trypanosoma. These parasites are transmitted to humans through the bite of an ...