An ER doctor explained how a patient suffered a tapeworm infection, with an X-ray showing the larvae all over his pelvis and legs.

The Portland Water Bureau continues to detect cryptosporidium, a potentially disease-causing microorganism, in the Bull Run watershed, Oregon’s largest source of drinking water. As 2025 begins, the ...

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.

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 ...

Researchers at the, Riverside, backed by a substantial NIH grant, are pioneering a study on the unique immune responses to ...

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 ...

It's all connected: coronaviruses and other emerging infectious diseases, loss of biodiversity, and destruction of the environment by humans. Around the world, pathogens and parasites are ...

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