Great progress has been made in recent years to reduce the high level of suffering caused
by malaria worldwide. Notably, the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets for malaria …

Achieving a malaria-free world presents exciting scientific challenges as well as
overwhelming health, equity, and economic benefits. WHO and countries are setting …

INTRODUCTION Malaria remains a devastating global parasitic disease, with the majority of
malaria deaths caused by the highly virulent Plasmodium falciparum. The extreme AT-bias …

Drinking water contamination with heavy metals, particularly lead, is a persistent problem
worldwide with grave public health consequences. Existing purification methods often …

Key features: Written by the scientist who named this parasite and was the first to set up
proper diagnostic techniques Serves as the first ever book to provide information on the …

In only a matter of months, the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) has spread around
the world. The global impact of the disease has caused significant and repeated calls for …

Human cystic and alveolar echinococcosis are helmintic zoonotic diseases caused by
infections with the larval stages of the cestode parasites Echinococcus granulosus and E …

The increase of many deadly diseases like infections by multidrug-resistant bacteria implies
re-inventing the wheel on drug discovery. A better comprehension of the metabolisms and …

There is an increasingly urgent need for new antibiotics, yet there is a significant and
persistent economic problem when it comes to develo** such medicines. The problem …

Bioinformatics approaches are becoming ever more essential in translational drug discovery
both in academia and within the pharmaceutical industry. Computational exploitation of the …