image: Ascaris larva is in liver histological section stained with Hemotoxylin and Eosin. view more Credit: C. Dold and C. Holland Approximately one billion people worldwide are estimated to be ...

Scientists have shed new light on Ascaris infection, which affects 1 billion people worldwide. Targeting specific liver proteins may offer new preventative options against an infection that kills ...

The giant roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides infects approximately 0.8 billion people worldwide, leading to chronic morbidity including intestinal problems and poor growth, particularly in children.

The study found the reasons behind different susceptibility to infection by the worm Ascaris, an intestinal parasite affecting up to 1.2 billion people worldwide. "The main burden of the disease ...

IT has long been a matter of uncertainty whether the ascaris parasite of the domestic pig is specifically identical with Ascaris lumbricoides L. 1758 from the intestine of man. The evidence ...