Graphical Abstract: The transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) from environmental microbes to pathogens is a critical but underexplored One Health driver of antimicrobial resistance. Here, we evaluate freshwater snails, which are geographically widespread aquatic invertebrates, as environmental reservoirs of ARGs. We collected faeces from eight gastropod genera at 15 freshwater locations across Malawi, Uganda, Zanzibar and the UK and conducted the first freshwater snail faecal metagenomic study.
Freshwater snail faecal metagenomes reveal environmental reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance genes across two continents. Read the full article in MGen: doi.org/10.1099/mgen... #MGen
17.09.2025 11:02 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Professor Trudie Lang giving a keynote speech at ECTMIH, Hamburg, Germany on 29 September 2025.
Professor Trudie Lang gave a keynote at #ECTMIH on how addressing the dual challenges of pandemics and diseases of poverty demands bold action.
Photo Credit: Dino Schachten / Federation of European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH)
#globalhealth #pandemics
30.09.2025 10:33 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A reminder to register and submit your abstract for our annual conference on 11/12th September 2025 in Liverpool! 🗓️
We can’t wait to see you all there!!!🦟🐌🪱🐶🐓🪲
Deadline for abstracts: 11th August 2025
Link: www.myeventflo.com/event.aspx?m...
16.07.2025 20:44 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
New preprint, by myself and Roy Anderson, looking at what impact including PSAC in MDA for schistosomiasis will have and how much it could vary between communities.
10.03.2025 16:25 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Schistosomiasis: the hidden struggle for diagnosis and control
Diagnostic dilemmaFor any disease, accurate diagnosis is the cornerstone of effective treatment and control. Yet, for schistosomiasis, existing diagnostic tools are far from perfect.Diagnosis is done
Schistosomiasis remains underdiagnosed, undertreated, and underestimated as an NTD.
In a new Lancet article Prof. Russell Stothard explores the urgent need for better diagnostics, treatment, and global investment to meet WHO’s 2030 targets.
Read his piece on this important topic: lstm.ac/4kCohK7
20.03.2025 11:00 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🦠🌍 It's World Parasite Awareness Day!
Our brilliant PhD student, Eve O'Kelly, is inspiring future scientists by sharing her career journey & advice with BSc Biotechnology students at @uniofgalway.bsky.social🎓🔬
#ParasiteAwareness #STEMCareers #Biotech #LiverFluke #Fasciola
20.03.2025 13:48 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
It's Parasite Awareness Day! 🧪
#parasiteawarenessday
It's Parasite Awareness Day! 🧪
#parasiteawarenessday
Diversity of biting midges, mosquitoes and sand flies at four dog shelters in rural and peri-urban areas of Central Morocco [2024]
doi.org/10.1051/para...
20.03.2025 09:32 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Africa’s change-makers: meet the Mastercard Foundation Scholars with
In this feature, we meet some of the 2024/25 Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program students under the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), which aims to increase the number of African students pursuing postgraduate degrees at the University.
Read more ⬇️
05.03.2025 16:17 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Great opportunity to learn from #Malawi's experience in integrating #FGSchisto into their STI Guidelines. The evidence provided to see what integration would look like helped the process of the review, made possible by the intensive advocacy campaign undertaken.
#BeatNTDs #SRHR4All #Schistosomiasis
26.02.2025 12:21 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Forum in our February issue: #Schistosoma #mattheei & #zoonotic #schistosomiasis, by @russstothard.bsky.social Alexandra Juhász & Janelisa Musaya. #Hybrid #Praziquantel #OneHealth @lstmnews.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/paras...
13.02.2025 14:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our recent paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... on zoonotic schistosomiasis now online #Onehealth
07.01.2025 20:28 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Exceptional opportunity. Great department. Lovely colleagues. Come join!
03.01.2025 14:44 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Infectious disease modeller | Scientific researcher in Public Health @ Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
Independent expert voice of biomedical and health research in the UK, fostering good health for all supported by the best research.
Visit https://bit.ly/acmedsci for more info.
PSI is a research institute at the University of Oxford with a mission to discover, create and enable practical solutions to infectious disease threats worldwide.
Physician & scientist interested in global health and access
Mathematical modeller in the TB modelling group at LSHTM
LSTM takes a whole-picture view on global health issues and works, in partnership, to develop genuine, sustainable, long-term solutions to save and improve lives in the world's most vulnerable communities. Est. 1898.
Field epidemiologist and schistosomiasis enthusiast.
The mission of the BSP is to advance the study of parasitology, aid communication within the community, and promote dissemination of advances in the field.
http://www.bsp.uk.net/
Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
Parasite: An international open-access, peer-reviewed, online journal publishing parasitology.
2023 Impact Factor: 2.4
🧪https://www.parasite-journal.org/
Global coalition of #health organisations tackling #climatechange to protect and promote public health. We mobilise the global health community and accelerates climate action to improve health for all. #ClimateAction is #Health action.
The world's largest public agricultural innovation network. https://cgiar.org
CTMGH, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. Network of research groups based in Oxford and across Africa and Asia. Tackling infectious diseases, from clinical studies to behavioural sciences.
In the UK and around the world, we make sure children keep safe, healthy and learning.
Find out more here: https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/
Molecular Parasitology Laboratory based at the University of Galway, Ireland led by Prof John P. Dalton.
The Schistosomiasis Resource Center at the Biomedical Research Institute distributes cost-free schistosomiasis reagents to scientists around the world.
#parasitology; #diagnostics; #globalhealth; #LUMC
chair #Limmud NL;
The Zipime Weka Schista study (do self-testing sister!) This is a
One-stop home self-sampling for female genital schistosomiasis, HPV, Trichomonas and HIV as a cost-effective and self-empowering strategy to increase case-detection
