The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts ...

Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm ...

Guinea worms are thin, thread-like parasites that can grow up to three feet long within the human body, before emerging through the skin. The Carter Center Humans cannot develop resistance to the ...

Researchers at the, Riverside, backed by a substantial NIH grant, are pioneering a study on the unique immune responses to ...

Horsehair worms, belonging to the phylum Nematomorpha, are fascinating parasites known for their ... and have systems in place to gain human feedback on the overall quality of the process.

The compounds stall the unique metabolic process that worms use to survive in the human gut. Parasitic worms transmitted through soil wreak havoc in developing countries in the tropics.

The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...

In early 2021, a 64-year-old woman from south-eastern New South Wales began dealing with stomach aches and diarrhoea, which ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than two in five American adults have obesity, a common and ...

It's all connected: coronaviruses and other emerging infectious diseases, loss of biodiversity, and destruction of the ...

The Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble discovered notable differences between the nuclear cap-binding complex in trypanosomes and humans, a critical component in cellular RNA metabolism. Trypanosomes ...

A new study from the Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble characterized the structure of an important trypanosomal protein ...