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The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD) at the University of Georgia is one of the largest international centers of research focused on diseases of poverty. Researchers and students work together on some of the most important causes of human suffering around the world, including malaria, schistosomiasis, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, leishmaniasis, and filariasis.

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Cellular biology graduate student receives American Heart Association fellowship >>Read More>>

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UGA researchers develop first test of cure for Chagas disease >>Read More>>

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Kurup wins prestigious PATH award for groundbreaking malaria research >>Read More>>

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The inner membrane complex protein, IMC55, is dispensable for intraerythrocytic development of Plasmodium falciparum >>Abstract>>

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Structure-Guided Optimization of Novel Inhibitors of Plasmodium Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase with Multistage Activity against Malaria Parasites >>Abstract>>

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A dual-aptazyme system for genetic complementation reveals stage-specific roles for the Trypanosoma cruzi cytoskeleton-associated protein 5.5 >>Abstract>>

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The Tarleton Research Group at the University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases discusses the importance of persistence and dormancy in Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas disease in a review published in Current Opinion in Microbiology.