John Blackthorne’s fear of flux would have arisen by losing people that he knew from the disease, which comes from a parasite called Entamoeba histolytica. Around the time Shogun was set in, dysentery ...

Intestinal parasites are an important public health problem and affect mainly underdeveloped and developing countries, where there are poor sanitary and socioeconomic conditions, associated with ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Acute diarrhea, or the kind that comes on quickly and lasts up to a few days, is usually contagious. Common causes of contagious diarrhea include viruses, ...

Protozoan parasites cause several human and veterinary diseases such as leishmaniasis, malaria, trypanosomiasis, toxoplasmosis, trichomoniasis and amebiasis, resulting in considerable morbidity and ...

Endoplasmic reticulum stress (ER stress) can be induced when cellular protein homeostasis is damaged, and cells can activate the unfolded protein response (UPR) to restore protein homeostasis or ...