The patient’s condition, identified as cysticercosis, was caused by larval cysts of taenia solium (pork tapeworm) after ...

The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...

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 ...

An ER doctor explained how a patient suffered a tapeworm infection, with an X-ray showing the larvae all over his pelvis and legs.

Timothée Chalamet is enlisting his lookalikes for help pulling off double duty on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend. In a ...

In the United States, the most well-known skin-penetrating parasitic worm, called a nematode, is the hookworm. But globally, ...

Parasite biology is the study of all biological ... of animal-adapted Cryptosporidium hominis subtypes differ from common human subtypes in the copy number of subtelomeric MEDLE genes ...

A: Before you start your dog on a weight-gaining program it is important to make sure that there is nothing that is keeping ...

Cancer grows from mutations in a person’s cells. Parasites are separate organisms that live on or in another host organism.

The gastrointestinal parasite lives inside a dog’s small ... Dr Swaid Abdullah said the parasites can be transferred to humans through the skin. “In people, hookworms from dogs can cause ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — There’s a new infectious worm that Texas officials are warning ... but they can also infest birds, pets and humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.