BugBitten

01/11/2024 BMC Blog Network

As of 1st of October 2024, BugBitten is closed for new contributions. If you would like to write a blog about your research, please visit the BugBitten page on the… Read more »

25/10/2024 Daniel Parsons

Leishmaniasis cases are rising in Thailand, with recent evidence suggesting Culicoides biting midges could be potential vectors ofLeishmania parasites to humans and… Read more »

18/10/2024 Hilary Hurd

We have visited the effect of climate change on the spread of parasitic diseases in several recent blogs (including last week’s one), but the advance of this… Read more »

11/10/2024 Krisztian Magori

Krisztian Magori reports on the surprising and unexpected discovery of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in the southern part of the… Read more »

04/10/2024 Srimathy Sriskantharajah

Guodong Niu and colleagues have shown that certain leucinostatins from fungal extracts can block the transmission of Plasmodium… Read more »

27/09/2024 Kate Moran

Slaying creatures that have a deadly bite using silver bullets sounds like something out of a gothic horror novel but research… Read more »

20/09/2024 Timothy Little

What online scientific service do you use every month, week, or day? Do you know who runs it? Do you know who funds it?… Read more »

13/09/2024 Daniel Parsons

Recent research highlights the value of genomic surveillance in tracking the potential emergence of praziquantel resistance in… Read more »

06/09/2024 Tiem van der Deure

Modelling suggests that Bulinus truncatus, one of the main intermediate host snails of urogenital schistosomiasis, can expand into… Read more »

30/08/2024 William Shadbolt

Cases of eastern equine encephalitis, a rare but dangerous mosquito-transmitted disease, have been reported in New Hampshire and… Read more »