Joanne P Webster
@joannewebster.bsky.social
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Professor of Infectious Diseases at Royal Veterinary College & Imperial College, London & LCNTDR
Delighted to share our latest paper, out today in Nature Comm, helping elucidate exactly how these sophisticated parasites can (at least in part) manipulate the behaviour of their hosts.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The role of parasite-produced dopamine in Toxoplasma gondii-altered host behaviour - Nature Communications
Empirical evidence that parasite-encoded tyrosine hydroxylases (TgTH), and hence parasite-produced dopamine, contribute to Toxoplasma gondii-associated behavioural alterations within the rat host.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66139-3
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Very proud to share Poppy's first research paper: “Hard to Make and Hard to Take.” examining the imperative need for - but challenges against - the development of vaccines for the Neglected Tropical Diseases.
lnkd.in/dPn_DEwi
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Hard to make and hard to take: Exploring the current and future barriers to the development and implementation of antipoverty vaccines in sub-Saharan Africa
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) encompass 20 conditions or groups of diseases that affect almost exclusively the rural poor in low- and middle-inco…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0065308X25000338?dgcid=author
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Delighted to share our systematic review revealing significant associations between child protozoan infections and stunting, esp Cryptosporidium spp. & Giardia spp., although data on the impact of maternal infections were lacking and mixed.
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
2 months ago
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