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Education, research, clinical, policy and advocacy from Baylor College of Medicine's National School of Tropical Medicine.
Houston, Texas
Joined September 2014
RT @PeterHotez: I look forward to my visit to College Station TX speaking to the doctoral students @TAMUmedicine Friday Aug 22 on the futur….
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RT @PeterHotez: On this #worldmosquitoday our National School of Tropical Medicine @BCM_TropMed is investigating the rise of Aedes aegypt….
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RT @Rojelio: Our study on a new Chagas test to diagnose dogs is out! 1/3 of dogs can be infected with T. cruzi that can lead to heart disea….
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Dogs are major reservoirs of Trypanosoma cruzi in Texas, United States. This study evaluated a novel Tc-24 recombinant antigen ELISA for the serologic detection of Chagas disease in dogs and found...
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RT @BCMFromtheLabs: Revisiting the Forgotten Face of #Leprosy. S. Khan @BCM_TropMed @bcmhouston @PeterHotez
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National School of Tropical Medicine Summer Institute participant Shajee Khan takes a closer look at leprosy.
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RT @BCMFromtheLabs: R. Mejia @Rojelio et al found high prevalence or exposure to #ChagasDisease, #dengue, and #Leishmania spp among indigen….
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RT @PeterHotez: The new books arrived, looking great! @MichaelEMann @PeterHotez @public_affairs @HachetteUS
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Researchers at BCM Tropical Medicine develop the first assembled genome of a soft tick:
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RT @Rojelio: We continue to work in the Southern USA and present our findings of failing sanitation systems in Alabama. Detecting human fec….
idpjournal.biomedcentral.com
Lowndes County is a predominantly Black rural county in Alabama, in the United States, which has a historical and current legacy of racial discrimination, creating inequitable infrastructure access...
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RT @PeterHotez: With Dr. @mebottazzi my science partner for almost 25 years at a celebratory breakfast for our scientists faculty and staff….
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RT @BCMCME: Browse our Environmental page. Earn CME. @bcm_bewell @PeterHotez @BCM_TropMed @BCMGlobalPgrms @bcmho….
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RT @PeterHotez: Wonderful to host and conclude another successful @BCM_TropMed annual summer tropical disease institute with @Baylor un….
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Science tikkun: a bioscience pandemic framework in a Hebrew tradition of global repair | Molecular Medicine.
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Over the past decade we have seen a steady increase in dangerous pandemic threats. They include two major Ebola epidemics and cholera in Africa; dengue, Zika, yellow fever in the Americas; a COVID-19...
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new publication by @DrJibowu @Sarah_M_Gunter et al.! with thanks to @hcphtx Spatial and seasonal dynamics of mosquito species in Harris County, Texas, highlight risk of arbovirus introduction…
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mosquito-borne diseases pose a significant public health threat, particularly in densely populated urban areas. Climate change, urbanization, and global connectivity have fueled the expansion of...
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RT @VersteegLeroy: World Chagas disease Day was celebrated last week to raise attention to this preventable disease. Here you see a human c….
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RT @Rojelio: 🚨 Publication 🚨 Does location outside houses differ in parasite contamination risks? Our molecular epidemiology in Peru shows….
link.springer.com
Background Soil is a reservoir for many parasites that can affect human and animal health, especially in tropical regions where soil-transmitted helminths and protozoa thrive. Understanding how...
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RT @Rojelio: In beautiful Ecuador for our 2025 research trip. Plans include:.1. Parasites in soil.2. Parasites in vegetables .3. Pulmonary….
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RT @VersteegLeroy: Hookworms are parasites that live inside your intestines, and as many as 740 million people worldwide are estimated to b….
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RT @Rojelio: A well-done article bringing to light the poverty and parasites we see in the Southern USA. @BCM_TropMed is quoted for our wor….
theguardian.com
New research suggests parasitic infections in US south are far more widespread than previously acknowledged
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