Parasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. But researchers may have found a way for patients with brain disorders and a common brain parasite to become frenemies. As a professor ...

Research led by the University of Sydney is reshaping scientific understanding of one of the world's most widespread canine ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Parasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. But researchers may have found a way for patients ...

The Significance of the Discovery Malaria remains one of the most life-threatening diseases globally, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there were ...

While cryptosporidiosis, infection by the protist parasite Cryptosporidium, is rare in the U.S., it is a common cause of deadly diarrhea in other parts of the world. The only FDA-approved treatment ...

A parasite called Toxoplasma gondii lurks inside 1 in 3 people worldwide, hiding out in the brain and other organs. Now, scientists have hijacked this microorganism to shuttle drugs into the brain — ...

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in Australia are working on a technique that will allow them to starve to death parasites which are proving harder to destroy using existing drugs. The parasite they ...

Thankfully, mass administration programs launched in the late 1980s, which distribute ivermectin to at-risk populations ...

A common parasite expands across species by abandoning sex, boosting short-term spread while risking long-term collapse.

Malaria parasites may be stopped in their tracks by a promising new group of compounds, suggests a new study in mice. The compounds may someday yield a new dual-action drug that targets both malaria ...

Researchers found that an asexual lineage of Giardia can infect more host species than sexual strains by bypassing genetic ...