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Penn Vet Establishes Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases
Signaling the world’s vulnerability to disease, Penn Vet is launching the Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases to confront emerging and re-emerging zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, with a goal of…

With a protein ‘delivery,’ parasite can suppress its host’s immune response (link is external)
Toxoplasma gondii is best known as the parasite that may lurk in a cat’s litter box. Nearly a third of the world’s population is believed to live with a chronic…