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The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD) at the University of Georgia is one of the largest international centers of research focused on diseases of poverty. Researchers and students work together on some of the most important causes of human suffering around the world, including malaria, schistosomiasis, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, leishmaniasis, and filariasis.

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PfFBXO1 localization by immunofluorescence stained with anti-V5 (PfFBXO1)

PfFBXO1 is essential for inner membrane complex formation in Plasmodium falciparum during both asexual and transmission stages >>Abstract>>

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Plasmodium falciparum cannot invade human red blood cells when essential protein RON11 is knocked out. The arrowhead points to the parasite. The larger cells are human red blood cells.

Anaguano D, Adewale-Fasoro O, Vick GW, Yanik S, Blauwkamp J, Fierro MA, et al. (2024) Plasmodium RON11 triggers biogenesis of the merozoite rhoptry pair and is essential for erythrocyte invasion. PLoS Biol 22(9): e3002801. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002801