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

Guinea, a country in West Africa has successfully eradicated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Capnocytophaga infections in humans are rare, especially in historically healthy individuals. But when it occurs, the disease ...