Parasitology

Proposal to shake down protozoans wins top award

Published in Vector and Zoonosis Week, December 9th, 2002

Agricultural Research Service scientist Benjamin M. Rosenthal has won the agency's T.W. Edminster Research Associate Award for the top-ranked proposal for the ARS 2003 Postdoctoral Research Associate Program.

Rosenthal and colleagues at the ARS Parasite Biology, Epidemiology and Systematics Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, have been working to discern how similar parasitic species are related to one another and how to tell them apart. These parasites include Neospora, Hammondia, Besnoitia and Sarcocystis, which form cysts in the muscles of certain animals, wildlife and even people.

Rosenthal proposed to compare how...

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Source: Vector and Zoonosis Week (2002-12-09)

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