BCM_TropMed @BCM_TropMed
Education, research, clinical, policy and advocacy from Baylor College of Medicine's National School of Tropical Medicine. bcm.edu/tropicalmedici… Houston, Texas Joined September 2014-
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Are there parasites in the Southern USA? We delve into detecting soil parasites with our highly sensitive/specific molecular tests, associating poverty with parasites detected in the Southern USA. Epilogue by @PeterHotez @BCM_TropMed youtu.be/Bz8mAwtkKCI?si…
Also on this #WorldHealthDay2024 our National School of Tropical Medicine @BCM_TropMed explores how climate change converges with urbanization, poverty, human and animal migrations to drive new pandemics
Exciting times! Congratulations, Dr. Yifan Wu! #NancyChangSymposium #BCMpostdoc @BCM_TropMed
Exciting times! Congratulations, Dr. Yifan Wu! #NancyChangSymposium #BCMpostdoc @BCM_TropMed
We are giving away 25 copies of the Medical Handbook for Limited Resource Settings V2. Send us a message on how the manual would help you in the field along with your mailing address. We will ship worldwide. Knowledge is power 📕
@BCM_TropMed @vladocruz @uady_mx @a5hi5h @PhDLilies Prelim study on using our flotation and filtration DNA extraction with qPCR testing of parasites in vegetables.
Anyone have any lambda red E.coli (e.g. DY380) or know where I can purchase some? Ideally in the DH10B background.
Ready to head out to the Yucatán Peninsula to continue our one health studies on the impact of environmental parasites on animal and human health. @BCM_TropMed @vladocruz @PhDLilies Follow our adventures!
Please support our @TexasChildrens Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, developing new low cost global health vaccines for the world poorest countries. Our Covid vaccine reached 100 million people and now a new human hookworm anemia vaccine give.texaschildrens.org/site/Donation2…
Today starts the @BCM_TropMed 1-week, hands-on laboratory course run by @DrKathrynJones1 , @TSepulvedaMD and Dr Cameron Brown! Our students are given clinical samples (fixed) and learn to diagnose different pathogens using limited resources. @ASTMH @ACCTMTH
Our annual @ASTMH accredited DTM course started this week. Expert @BCM_TropMed faculty including school Dean @PeterHotez provide didactic lectures and lab experience in-person and via zoom to accommodate global learners. Check our website for info: bcm.edu/education/nati…
Our Mexico environmental parasite study. An amazing collaboration with @vladocruz @PhDLilies @BCM_TropMed youtu.be/tyDNPwyLMGY?si…
1/n On this World NTD Day 2024 our National School of Tropical Medicine @BCM_TropMed @TexasChildrens is conducting research on a dozen pediatric tropical infections, also links to climate change. In areas of outbreak, diagnostics, vaccines some our projects…
1/n Many thanks @AliVelshi for having me on @MSNBC @WagnerTonight to discuss some puzzling and troubling public comments by the FL Surgeon General re: mRNA vaccines and his claims that contaminating DNA could or will cause cancer. Here’s why he’s wrong…
Vaccine refusal or hesitancy? A new paper from Peter J. Hotez of @bcmhouston analyzes the topic and how an expanding antiscience ecosystem is related to #GlobalVaccine availability for low- and middle-income countries. #COVID19 bit.ly/47ZB2ah
Welcome home Dr. Neima Briggs! @BCM_TropMed @mebottazzi @PeterHotez
nice pic @VersteegLeroy!
2nd episode of our environmental parasite studies. This time we travel to beautiful Ecuador and review the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides. youtube.com/watch?v=pALgqJ…
🚨Publication🚨 Our study provides evidence that giardiasis is linked to growth delays in infected children. Always such a pleasure to be working with these groups from Ecuador and the United Kingdom. @BCM_TropMed journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…
2nd field site in Cedral, Argentina. Obligatory research un-shaven selfie. Many stray dogs and cats seen on the premises. High risk factor for Toxocara contamination.
Ready for my 4th field study to Northern Argentina. We will focus on detection of parasites in environmental samples and how these pathogens impact children. Follow my adventures! @BCM_TropMed
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7K Followers 963 Following i'm not going into the toilet! i'm going into show business!Are there parasites in the Southern USA? We delve into detecting soil parasites with our highly sensitive/specific molecular tests, associating poverty with parasites detected in the Southern USA. Epilogue by @PeterHotez @BCM_TropMed youtu.be/Bz8mAwtkKCI?si…
Exciting times! Congratulations, Dr. Yifan Wu! #NancyChangSymposium #BCMpostdoc @BCM_TropMed
My lab received the Nancy Chang, PhD research excellence award in 2023. The grant allowed Dr Yifan Wu to evaluate the role of platelet derived Dkk-1 in SARS-CoV2 immune deregulation. Today he had the opportunity to present his findings to Dr Chang! What an honor! @BCMFromtheLabs
🔍 Discover fascinating Loiasis, or African eye worm, caused by the parasitic worm Loa loa! 😮🐛 This pesky parasite is transmitted to humans through the bites of deerflies, also known as mango flies or mangrove flies, from the Chrysops genus. 🦟🌳 Found in rainforests of West…
@BCM_TropMed @vladocruz @uady_mx @a5hi5h @PhDLilies Prelim study on using our flotation and filtration DNA extraction with qPCR testing of parasites in vegetables.
@BCM_TropMed @vladocruz @uady_mx Another @BCM_TropMed and @uady_mx collaboration, we sequenced and published the H1 strain of Trypanosoma cruzi. Bioinformatics by the ever perspicacious @a5hi5h !
Ready to head out to the Yucatán Peninsula to continue our one health studies on the impact of environmental parasites on animal and human health. @BCM_TropMed @vladocruz @PhDLilies Follow our adventures!
Please support our @TexasChildrens Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, developing new low cost global health vaccines for the world poorest countries. Our Covid vaccine reached 100 million people and now a new human hookworm anemia vaccine give.texaschildrens.org/site/Donation2…
Today starts the @BCM_TropMed 1-week, hands-on laboratory course run by @DrKathrynJones1 , @TSepulvedaMD and Dr Cameron Brown! Our students are given clinical samples (fixed) and learn to diagnose different pathogens using limited resources. @ASTMH @ACCTMTH
Our annual @ASTMH accredited DTM course started this week. Expert @BCM_TropMed faculty including school Dean @PeterHotez provide didactic lectures and lab experience in-person and via zoom to accommodate global learners. Check our website for info: bcm.edu/education/nati…
Our Mexico environmental parasite study. An amazing collaboration with @vladocruz @PhDLilies @BCM_TropMed youtu.be/tyDNPwyLMGY?si…
Vaccine refusal or hesitancy? A new paper from Peter J. Hotez of @bcmhouston analyzes the topic and how an expanding antiscience ecosystem is related to #GlobalVaccine availability for low- and middle-income countries. #COVID19 bit.ly/47ZB2ah
Welcome home Dr. Neima Briggs! @BCM_TropMed @mebottazzi @PeterHotez
2nd episode of our environmental parasite studies. This time we travel to beautiful Ecuador and review the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides. youtube.com/watch?v=pALgqJ…
🚨Publication🚨 Our study provides evidence that giardiasis is linked to growth delays in infected children. Always such a pleasure to be working with these groups from Ecuador and the United Kingdom. @BCM_TropMed journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…
2nd field site in Cedral, Argentina. Obligatory research un-shaven selfie. Many stray dogs and cats seen on the premises. High risk factor for Toxocara contamination.
Ready for my 4th field study to Northern Argentina. We will focus on detection of parasites in environmental samples and how these pathogens impact children. Follow my adventures! @BCM_TropMed
It was an honor to receive this award from @PIDSociety. I am thankful for @TexasChildrens support for our work evaluating and preventing parasite-induced morbidity in children. So excited for what’s coming next in parasite immunology, vaccine development and prevention 🪱
We're pleased to announce that Dr. Jill Weatherhead, director of the Pediatric Tropical Medicine Clinic at #TexasChildrens, is the recipient of the 2023 PIDS Young Investigator Award. Learn more: ms.spr.ly/60139fMK3
Huge thank you to @PIDSociety for this amazing award from the Pichichero Family Foundation Vaccines For Children Initiative. With this grant we will be study the pathogenicity of ascariasis, mucosal immune responses to Ascaris & mechanisms to prevent ascariasis in kids🪱 #IDWeek
Listening to @MeganDuffey1 from @BCM_TropMed, @BCMIDFellowship and @bcmhouston talk about our experience with autochthonous cases of NTDs in Houston to @TexasDSHS. @PrathitKulkarni @ACCTMTH @EvaClarkMD @PeterHotez @mebottazzi 1/7
@PeterHotez @mebottazzi @ToxocaraProject @dwmccormick @PhDLilies @vladocruz @EricWetzel2 @RealFujiwara @BCM_TropMed The primary goal of these studies are to further understand the risk factors of human infection with environmental contamination. All these pathogens have a component of their life cycle in dirt or contaminated water.