Human Parasitic Disease Unit, re-elected by the WHO as a world benchmark in human fascioliasis
4 march 2016
The Human Parasitic Disease Unit of the Universitat de València has been re-elected by the World Health Organization as a Collaborating Centre (WHO CC) and a world benchmark in human fascioliasis, a pathology considered by the international organization inside the group of the called priority neglected diseases and which affects 17 million people
Schistosomiasis reaches Europe
3 march 2016
Schistosomiasis is an acute and chronic parasitic disease caused by blood flatworms (trematodes) of Schistosoma type. It is calculated that at least 258 million people needed treatment in 2014.
Professor Santiago Mas-Coma awarded with the Llama Rotaria Prize in Sciences
1 march 2016
What are soil-transmitted helminthiasis?
26 february 2016
The soil-transmitted helminthiasis are one of the most common parasitism in the world affecting the poorest and most disadvantaged communities.
Workshop on Chagas at the UV
25 february 2016
Diagnosis of Neglected Diseases: molecules and tropics
15 february 2016
Molecular diagnosis brings new possibilities to the treatment and attention of neglected diseases.