Parasitic worms live in and feed off living hosts. Learn about parasitic worms in humans, transmission, treatment, how to avoid being a host, and more.

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that artificial intelligence (AI) combined with portable digital microscopy ...

Artificial intelligence can spot parasitic worm eggs in human faecal samples – including those from parasite species missed when lab technologists use a microscope to study the same samples.

Human parasites are highly variable organisms, ... We would be required to look for and identify all ova and parasites, called "stool for O and P" on the intern's yellow student order sheet.

A fish tapeworm infection, or diphyllobothriasis, occurs when a person eats raw or undercooked fish that's contaminated with the parasite Diphyllobothrium latum. Find out more about it here.