WHO has a 2030 deadline to eradicate sleeping sickness but is the world actually getting rid of it?
Civil unrest in key endemic regions, such as the Central African Republic and southwestern Cameroon, has hindered disease ...
Medscape1mon
Protozoan Parasite Aquaporins
The relatively recent discovery of aquaporins (AQP) has introduced a new mechanism of membrane transport that may provide a therapeutic target for parasitic protozoan infections. The AQP family of ...
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Fourth global detection of protozoan parasite in pigs hints at wider scope of infection
Sarcocystis miescheriana is a protozoan parasite with a prey-predator life cycle. Domestic and wild pigs may serve as intermediate hosts, potentially ingesting infective oocysts or sporocysts shed ...
The Taipei Times4d
US beef tongues containing parasite seized at border
A shipment of beef tongues imported from the US was intercepted at Taiwan’s border after being found to contain a parasite ...
Santa Clarita Magazine16d
Milkweed For Monarch’s Santa Clarita Koi Club
February is a month filled with love, reflection, and community spirit. While it brings Valentine’s Day celebrations, it also ...
The Scientist4y
Malaria Parasites’ Biological Clocks Coordinate Cell Destruction
Two studies show that Plasmodium—the genus of protozoans that cause malaria—have an internal sense of time that synchronizes with their host’s circadian rhythms and allows the parasites to ...
Nature3y
Disease Ecology
and a protozoan parasite of monarch butterflies) have so far provided clear support for the trade-off theory. Hosts can also evolve in response to infection in ways that influence virulence.