Researchers have shown that the evolution of a family of exported proteins in the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum enabled it to infect humans.

Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks. However, parasite cleanses ...

A group of researchers has developed a new formulation for the only drug available on the market to treat helminths, as worms ...

For parasitologists, the answer is simple. Neatly housed in each of the myriad segments of a giant T. solium tapeworm are ...

This development is significant given that antimicrobial resistance has become a major global health issue. According to the ...

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They weren’t snakes, of course, but nematodes, also known as roundworms—and, it turns out, they’re the most common ...

Tens of millions of people in Africa are infected by parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (also called elephantiasis), a disease that leads ...

Kennedy Jr.'s "brain worm"? What they lacked was concern for a problem that causes a huge toll of human pain ... after an extended course of treatment guided by serial CSF testing, the patient ...

Malaria continues to cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, with over 200 million cases and approximately ...

Humans can become infected with these ... The NHS website also provides detailed guidance on treating worm infections. Most common treatments for threadworms are available over the counter at ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this ...