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  • El cambio climático y la proliferación de la garrapata

    8 february 2016

    El cambio climático está favoreciendo a la aparición de plagas de garrapatas. Estas son el principal vector de transmisión de agentes patógenos y esto ha hecho que solo en Europa aumenten notablemente las enfermedades que transmiten las garrapatas al hombre.

  • The Department of Cell Biology and Parasitology of the UV researches intestinal helminths as regulators for immunopathology

    20 january 2016

    The Department of Cell Biology and Parasitology of the Universitat de València has been developing, for years now, a research line addressed to the study of immune responses to intestinal helminths. 

  • Carolina Foundation Grant for the Master’s Degree in Tropical Parasitic Diseases of the UV

    17 december 2015

    The Carolina Foundation offers a postgraduate education grant for the Master’s Degree in Tropical Parasitic Diseases of the Universitat de València. A great opportunity for the students interested in this topic.

  • Parasitic diseases and climate change in the ‘International Conference in Tropical Medicine’ in Sri Lanka, opened by Mas-Coma

    14 december 2015

    On Sunday 13 December opened the “International Conference in Tropical Medicine” organised by the University of Peradeniya in collaboration with the World Federation for Tropical Medicine in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka. The professor Mas-Coma of the Universitat de València, in its quality of current President-elect of the World Federation, expert of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and director of the Collaborating Centre of the WHO and Centre of Reference of FAO-United Nations in Valencia, was in charge of giving the opening conference of this important event. This conference gathers experts from several countries of Asia and United States to discuss on the situation of various regions of the world, with special attention in the South of Asia.

  • What is medical entomology?

    1 december 2015

    Medical entomology is the science that studies insects and other arthropods that have health interests due to their pathogen role or vector role, that is, they intervene in the transmission cycle of determined diseases that affect the human being and the domestic and wild animals.

 
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