New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis—a disease caused by parasitic worms and ...

This protozoan, a single-celled organism, enters human blood via a mosquito bite and quickly travels to the liver cells, ...

The parasites that cause malaria—Plasmodium species—have complex lifecycles. They are spread between hosts by mosquitoes, spend some time maturing in liver cells, and then eventually end up inside red ...

The human liver fluke (Opisthorchis viverrini ... by the novel discovery which shows that a growth hormone from a parasite can affect human cells. "It was known that O. viverrini secreted proteins ...

Giardiasis, caused by the protozoan Giardia intestinalis, is the leading cause of intestinal parasitic infections in humans ...