Tag: Parasitology

Researchers detected the tapeworm Taenia arctos in 14 of 125 brown bears culled across Slovakia, confirming the species in the ...

A cross-sectional survey at Ho Teaching Hospital in Ghana found a 72.5 percent Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence among adults living with ...

A multicentre Spanish study of 281 Blastocystis-positive stool samples identified seven subtypes, with ST1, ST3 and ST2 most frequent and ...

A repeated cross-sectional study in six rural Chinese villages found hookworm prevalence fell from 4.76% to 1.06% after a one-year ...

A mouse study found that nitazoxanide loaded into chitosan nanoparticles reduced fecal and intestinal Cryptosporidium oocyst counts more than free ...

Researchers redescribed the killer whale amphipod Orcinocyamus orcini from a stranded orca in East Java and produced the species' first ...

A study of 371 dogs in rural Vietnam found hookworm infection in 66.6% of them, with the zoonotic species Ancylostoma ...

A mouse study shows that whether a first Schistosoma mansoni infection is single-sex or bisexual shapes pulmonary CD4+ memory T ...

A molecular study of 85 rats and mice from La Plata, Argentina, detected Cryptosporidium DNA in 11.8 percent of samples, ...

The first quantitative record of the pentastomid Raillietiella furcocerca in Bothrops atrox from the Brazilian Amazon documents infections in both ...

A survey of 333 brown bear fecal samples from four locations in Erzurum, Türkiye, identified Baylisascaris transfuga, Dicrocoelium sp., and ...

A cross-sectional study of 392 women delivering at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital in eastern Uganda found microscopically detectable schistosomiasis in ...

A 13-year longitudinal study in Salvador, Brazil, found that urban Schistosoma mansoni transmission is largely local and that community-wide prevalence ...

A controlled laboratory study found that 75 percent of exposed house flies carried helminth eggs after three hours, with the ...

Deep in the freshwater systems of Hunan Province, China, a microscopic parasite has been quietly colonizing the intestinal wall of ...

Taxonomists have described Pelecolipeurus, a new genus of ischnoceran chewing lice from tragopans, and shown that host phylogeny, biogeography, biotope ...

A year-long survey of 1,175 freshwater snails across five southern Thai provinces identified three species carrying eight trematode parasites, including ...

Scientists have described Gordius nixus, the first horsehair worm species ever recorded from Pakistan, after repeatedly finding the parasites actively ...

New research reveals that the zombie-ant fungus Ophiocordyceps lives hidden within Amazonian mosses as an endophyte, suggesting the famous parasite ...

Deep inside the metabolic machinery of two of the world's most neglected killers, a quiet revolution in drug discovery is ...