Next generation sequencing (NGS) combined with bioinformatics has successfully been
used in a vast array of analyses for infectious disease research of public health relevance …

In global health, critical challenges have arisen from infectious diseases, including the
emergence and reemergence of old and new infectious diseases. Emergence and …

Over the last 30 years, concomitant with successful transnational disease control programs
across Latin America, Chagas disease has expanded from a neglected, endemic parasitic …

Unicellular flagellates of the family Trypanosomatidae are obligatory parasites of
invertebrates, vertebrates and plants. Dixenous species are aetiological agents of a number …

A breakthrough in next generation sequencing (NGS) in the last decade provided an
unprecedented opportunity to investigate genetic variations in humans and their roles in …

Hybridization of parasites is an emerging public health concern at the interface of infectious
disease biology and evolution. Increasing economic development, human migration, global …

African trypanosomes are vector-borne protozoa, which cause significant human and animal
disease across sub-Saharan Africa, and animal disease across Asia and South America. In …

Evolutionary theory predicts that the lack of recombination and chromosomal re-assortment
in strictly asexual organisms results in homologous chromosomes irreversibly accumulating …

Leishmania infantum causes visceral leishmaniasis, a deadly vector-borne disease
introduced to the Americas during the colonial era. This non-native trypanosomatid parasite …

Human malaria parasite species were originally acquired from other primate hosts and
subsequently became endemic, then spread throughout large parts of the world. A major …