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Close-up with a parasite that can blind

At the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo, María Eugenia Francia tackles a cause of vision problems in babies.
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Maria E. Francia at her laboratory in front of a microscope and computer at the Institute Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay.

María Eugenia Francia is a group leader in the Apicomplexan Biology Laboratory at the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo, Uruguay. Credit: Pablo Albarenga for Nature

In this picture taken in September, I’m using a confocal microscope at the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo, one of the Pasteur Network’s three South American centres. My team focuses on understanding and combating infectious agents, specifically single-celled protozoan parasites belonging to a diverse group called Apicomplexa.

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Nature 601, 158 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03823-6

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