The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts ...

Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have developed widespread drug resistance in both North America and Australia.

It's all connected: coronaviruses and other emerging infectious diseases, loss of biodiversity, and destruction of the ...

Cancer grows from mutations in a person’s cells. Parasites are separate organisms that live on or in another host organism.

A new study from the Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble characterized the structure of an important trypanosomal protein ...

The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...

The Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble discovered notable differences between the nuclear cap-binding complex in trypanosomes and humans, a critical component in cellular RNA metabolism. Trypanosomes ...

In early 2021, a 64-year-old woman from south-eastern New South Wales began dealing with stomach aches and diarrhoea, which ...

Scientists have predicted that the rate of foodborne trematode infections will remain stable up to 2030. Foodborne ...

These parasites, which include various types of protozoa and helminths (worms), can be transmitted between animals and, in some cases, to humans. Recent research has focused on understanding the ...

An NUS-based study says 11 species that have bitten humans here can carry 1 or more harmful microbes. Read more at ...