People in Florida are having to worry about a unique disease-carrying insect known as the kissing bug. New research shows ...

Researchers at the University of Georgia's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases have developed the first test to ...

Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their ...

Kissing bugs that carry the parasite for Chagas disease, a potentially serious tropical condition, have established a base in ...

The cell biology of Trypanosoma brucei has garnered extensive interest due to its unique architecture and its role as the causative agent of African trypanosomiasis. The parasite is distinguished ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.

A kissing bug bite doesn’t hurt, but it can cause a serious infection called Chagas disease. Learn about symptoms, treatment, and more.

A dog in Balangoda was found to have been infected by a parasitic disease known as Trypanosoma. It was the first time that such a disease was detected in Sri Lanka, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary ...

Chagas disease— which is spread by blood-sucking kissing bugs — has a secure foothold in the U.S. and warrants more preventative measures.

Trypanosoma are a nasty class of single-celled parasites that cause serious, even fatal, diseases in human and animals. Two species cause sleeping sickness, a disease that threatens all of sub ...

The first ever vaccine target for trypanosomes, a family of parasites that cause devastating disease in animals and humans, has been discovered. By targeting a protein on the cell surface of the ...