Fat cells play a surprising role in combating parasites, according to a study published today (October 14) in Science Immunology, which finds that fatty tissue surrounding the intestinal tracts of ...

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

Rodents—such as mice—are reservoirs for many of these tick-borne pathogens, including the bacteria that causes Lyme disease ...

Next, the researchers wanted to understand what effect the host’s low blood sugar had on the parasite. The researchers bred transgenic mice that don’t express the G6PC1 gene in the liver, meaning that ...

thereby injecting its saliva and the parasite-containing gel into the person's skin. Rogers and his colleagues determined that in the early course of infection in mice, the gel plug recruited ...

Penn Vet researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a finding that can inform the study of latency in other infections of the ...

The mouse serologic panel includes mouse parvovirus 1 (MPV-1 ... skin and gastrointestinal tract are examined for parasites; the intestine, liver, and nasal passages are cultured for bacterial ...