In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that regulates the immune response against parasites. During a parasitic infection, specific immune cells, known as virtual memory T cells ...

Researchers have discovered the mechanism that helps regulate the immune system’s response to helminth infection.

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Researchers at the (Belgium) have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that regulates the immune response against parasites.

Parasitic worms are difficult to kill with current therapies, but their commensal bacteria might be their Achilles’ heel.

Trypanosomes are parasites that cause deadly diseases in humans and animals, such as Human African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), Chagas disease, and Nagana in cattle. According to the World ...

Currently, infections are treated with ivermectin ... to carbon dioxide play an important role in how these parasites interact with human hosts as they pass through the different stages of ...

The research is published in the journal Nature Communications. Trypanosomes are parasites that cause deadly diseases in humans and animals, such as Human African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping ...