Category Archives: Infectious Disease

Infectious Disease

A woman wearing glasses and a lab coat smiles while sitting in a laboratory with shelves and books in the background.

 Infectious Disease March 05, 2026

Cellular biology graduate student receives American Heart Association fellowship

A hand holding a pair of scissors, reminiscent of delicate laboratory work, could represent research into breakthroughs like a pan-fungal vaccine or the fight against Candida auris.

 Infectious Disease January 20, 2026

Pan-fungal vaccine proves effective against Candida auris in mice

Issabella Asamoah, graduate research assistant, S. Mark Tompkins, professor and director for the Center for Vaccines and Immunology, and Justin Shepard, PhD student, work in the Tompkins laboratory in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

 Infectious Disease November 21, 2025

A virus takes flight

Image of Covid 19 under a microscope.

 Infectious Disease October 30, 2025

Experts feared a disease rebound after COVID-19. It didn’t happen.

Kissing bugs can carry the parasite that causes Chagas disease, and they're particularly abundant in Texas and the southern U.S. (Getty Images)

 Infectious Disease June 26, 2025

UGA researchers develop first test of cure for Chagas disease

UGA's Karen Norris developed a vaccine that protects against multiple fungal infections.

 Infectious Disease June 20, 2025

New vaccine works against multiple fungal infections

University of Georgia researcher Samarchith "Sam" Kurup

 Infectious Disease June 10, 2025

Kurup wins prestigious PATH award for groundbreaking malaria research

Girl with mask on trying to protect herself from airborne pathogens.

 Infectious Disease June 03, 2025

Could poverty trigger the next pandemic?

The parasite that causes Chagas disease can cause inflammation in the heart, as shown in white here in a mouse model.

 Infectious Disease May 08, 2025

Scientists use ‘One Health’ model to fight Chagas disease

Dictyostelium is an amoeba that crawls on glass. The green stain prominently displays its cytoskeleton after cells were fixed and permeabilized, using an anti-actin antibody. The new anti-O-fucose antibody, created by Megna Tiwari, illustrates in red the concentration of O-fucose proteins within the nucleus, highlighted by the blue dye. One of the cells has 2 nuclei, and the white bar measures 5 microns.

 Infectious Disease May 07, 2025

UGA biochemists create new tool to study biological process in parasites