Most humans have long-lived infections in various tissues—including in the nervous system—that typically do not result in ...

Penn Vet researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii ...

Waterborne diseases are illnesses caused by pathogenic microorganisms transmitted mostly in contaminated water. As they pose ...

Using large-scale screening, the researchers searched for genes whose loss does not kill the pathogen but halts its development in the liver phase. They tested 1,500 different parasite variants ...