A woman developed an array of symptoms shortly after returning from a vacation, and parasites turned out to be the culprit.

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

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

Parasitic infections happen when parasites enter a human or animal body, taking nutrients from the body for themselves. Parasites typically cause symptoms like diarrhea, nausea, vomiting ...

During a parasitic infection, specific immune cells ... is needed to determine whether a similar phenomenon exists in humans and how this discovery could be applied in medicine," adds Professor ...

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

The 88-year-old pontiff was initially admitted to the hospital on Friday for bronchitis. On Monday, the Vatican said test ...

A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite ...

The parasitic infection presents as gastroenteritis, which usually comes with cramping abdominal pain, fever, watery diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. Children are reportedly most highly at risk from ...

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 ...