Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite spread by cats, can shred human sperm and may be an overlooked factor in declining male ...

Intestinal parasites are organisms that live in the human digestive system and derive nutrients at the host's expense. They can cause a range of health issues, including malnutrition, digestive ...

New research has shown how the parasitic amoeba Entamoeba histolytica takes bites from your cells to use as a disguise, ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that ...

However, "in developed countries like the United States, intestinal parasites ... associated with parasitic infections. "These include coming in contact with human or animal waste, using human ...

Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have even evolved sophisticated strategies to evade a host’s immune system by avoiding it entirely.

Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.

Entamoeba histolytica is a single-cell parasite that causes intestinal disease, but sometimes invades the ... of Entamoeba and now proposes a strategy to learn how it attacks human cells and evade the ...