If you've handled cat litter or eaten raw meat or unwashed produce, there’s a chance you might have a permanent toxoplasmosis ...

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...

A common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) gathers pollen in a field of yellow sunflowers, plants whose pollen helps the insects expel parasites. New research, published in the Journal of ...

Potatoes produce a molecule that is converted by microbes and causes potato parasites to hatch. The Kobe University discovery of this three-way relationship not only adds a new perspective to how ...

The parasites found in the study — two species of flatworms called trematodes — typically cause gastrointestinal problems, weight loss or lethargy when they infect humans. In some rare and severe ...

"Testicular toxoplasmosis shows that parasites can invade human testes, but symptomatic disease is very rare. "Studies to date that show defects in the sperm of infected men are too small to draw ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Congenital toxoplasmosis appears to be more severe in areas where universal screening is not mandatory, atypical strains of ...

While immunocompromised patients are most at risk for testicular toxoplasmosis, it can also occur in otherwise healthy individuals. Imaging studies of infected mice confirm that Toxoplasma parasites ...

Testicular toxoplasmosis shows that parasites can invade human testes, but symptomatic disease is very rare. Studies to date that show defects in the sperm of infected men are too small to draw ...

While immunocompromised patients are most at risk for testicular toxoplasmosis, it can also occur in otherwise healthy individuals. Imaging studies of infected mice confirm that Toxoplasma parasites ...