What are the risks for transmission of roundworm from an infected puppy to humans, and what preventive measures can be taken? An expert infectious disease veterinarian addresses a reader's concern.

It is an FDA-approved medicine that requires a recommendation from a physician. The salt falls in the anthelmintics or avermectins category used to kill roundworms like strongyloidosis.

Learn about parasitic worms in humans, transmission, treatment, how to avoid being a host, and more. ... The hookworm is a type of roundworm transmitted through feces and contaminated soil.

Roundworm treatment of cats treats the existing infection, but cats can get infected again. ... Humans can get infected by putting unwashed fingers into their mouths, ...

Not only does ivermectin kill roundworms in infected plants, animals, and humans, leaving the host organisms unscathed, but it also kills other types of parasitic worms.

“You can learn a lot from studying a worm,” said Shane Rea of the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, part of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. To ...

Researchers have discovered which cells respond to anesthesia in an organism called the C. elegans, possibly revealing new ways to use existing medications to reverse anesthesia, according to a ...