Ticks can be found on every continent in the world, including Antarctica. Like spiders, ticks are arachnids, but ticks are parasites because they feed on the blood of animals and humans.

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.

"Our genetic analysis revealed the parasitic worms from Côte d’Ivoire ... to a parasite that infects pigs than those normally found in humans." The parasite's eggs are passed in infected ...

Parasitic worms are difficult to kill with current therapies, but their commensal bacteria might be their Achilles’ heel.

A University of Washington researcher has found that infestations ... Another parasitic worm, Clavinema mariae, which doesn't cause illness in humans, increased its numbers eight times in local ...

The movie imagines mutated parasites taking over the bodies of humans to wreak havoc on an idyllic ... prevalent in warm coastal waters and can be found from the Gulf of California southward ...

Analyzing the sequences revealed that bacteria belonging to the genera Meiothermus and Anoxybacillus made up most of the worms’ microbiome. Although scientists have found these species in frigid ...

This species is found mostly in tropical and subtropical ... carbon dioxide play an important role in how these parasites interact with human hosts as they pass through the different stages ...