“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

Fearing a resurgence of the New World Screwworm parasite in the US, the Department of Agriculture block livestock imports from Mexico ...

An anthelminthic drug commonly used for pinworm infections could be repurposed to treat a deadly form of skin cancer, ...

The New World Screwworm is a devastating parasite now on the US border. Has it been found in Ohio? How to spot them and what ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this ...

The researchers collected human stool, poultry and dog feces, stored water and soil samples from each household. They then cultured E. coli colonies from the samples and used PIC-seq to analyze ...

Knowing when and where dogs got sick with Valley fever can help pinpoint the geographical areas where humans might also contract the disease, according to a paper recently published in The Journal ...

Horsehair worms, also called Gordian worms, develop in the bodies of grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches and some beetle ...

With this tool, the team isolated 161 fungal species from human stool samples across China. Among them, one stood out — Fusarium foetens. This fungus could survive without oxygen, colonize mouse ...

The Human Intestinal Bacteria Collection (HiBC) offers scientists access to over 300 live gut bacterial strains, many never studied before, empowering research into inflammation, immunity, and ...