An international team of researchers have developed a promising new drug that could help combat the spread of ...

Researchers found that Toxoplasma gondii increased the host cell’s metabolic activity, offering insights into potential ...

Social media users are spreading false claims that putting on headphones and listening to a particular sound frequency will kill parasites.

Richard Gerhold, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVM (Parasitology), associate professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, discusses some ways that humans can help com ...

Thanks to its ability to quickly diagnose an infection, mNGS helps guide management decisions and treatment for ... analysis ...

Head lice are small parasites that live on human scalps, feeding on blood. While they don’t cause serious health problems, head lice are a common and frustrating problem, especially among ...

An international team of scientists has provided an unprecedented look into the unique crystals formed by the malaria ...

Snake lungworm disease, which infects at least 19 snake species, is poised to spread throughout the southeastern U.S.

The test works by sequencing all the genetic material in CSF, then running a computational analysis pipeline to separate ...

Can a common parasite help treat Alzheimer’s? Scientists say Toxoplasma gondii may open pathways to brain therapies for ...

A study by Johns Hopkins researchers reveals that the parasite T. brucei, responsible for African sleeping sickness, uses host tissues to evade immune responses. The findings show that T. brucei ...

Parasites do not have to bite your dog for the treatment to work because the medicine ... to thousands of adverse incidents in pets and humans. To date, 2,500 pet deaths have been allegedly ...