Good news for a great group of researchers is bad news for parasitic worms

Congratulations to Todd Castoe, David Pollock and Dr. Elizabeth Carlton--a very cool project to help with the fight against infectious disease!

“Schistosomiasis is an acute and chronic disease caused by parasitic worms and is second only to malaria as the most devastating parasitic disease. It affects more than 200 million people worldwide, mostly in tropical and subtropical areas and especially in poor communities without access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation… Using genomic sequencing, this project will provide unprecedented insight into the detailed patterns of transmission across hosts, across geographic areas and through time. This will help us to understand how to prevent infections and advance efforts to achieve permanent reductions in schistosomiasis and other human helminthiases [worm infections].”

Here’s the University of Texas at Arlington press release:

https://www.uta.edu/news/releases/2019/02/Castoe-NIH-NSF2.php