is an infection of the large intestine caused by a parasite called Trichuris trichiura. This parasite is commonly known as a “whipworm” because it resembles a whip. A whipworm infection can ...

and hookworm infection. The approach builds off the current bivalent Human Hookworm Vaccine now in clinical development and would ultimately add both a larval Ascaris lumbricoides antigen and an adult ...

The parasite, named Trichuris ... still in its early stages. "At present major biological or clinical differences between T. incognita and the human Trichuris species T. trichiura (other than ...

A new tablet that combines albendazole and ivermectin has shown to be both safe and more effective than albendazole alone in treating soil-transmitted helminths, according to the ALIVE clinical trial.