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

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM) have shown that the ...

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

Ticks are parasites that bite and feed on humans and pets. They can spread Lyme disease and other infections. Here's what to know.

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

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

Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.

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

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

Tens of millions of people in Africa are infected by parasitic worms that cause lymphatic filariasis (also called ...

The study marks a step forward in improving treatments for the disease ... Changtao and his colleagues cultured F. foetens from human faeces using an isolation and culturing system that they ...

The CDC did publish a fact sheet on Thursday for doctors treating measles, saying that other treatments "such as antibiotics should be prescribed based on clinical judgement by an individual ...