Swallows infected with parasites move less and in smaller ranges than healthy ones—with detrimental effects on their foraging ...

You might think of snails as the little shelled creatures that you find crawling in your garden, or even as a delicacy of French cuisine, where they are called "escargot." But there are snails that ...

A new study sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term infections in hosts.

Parasite evolution refers to the heritable genetic changes that a parasite accumulates during its life time, which can arise from adaptations in response to environmental changes or the immune ...

Brahic: One of the main questions that we haven’t solved is, for example, in Alzheimer’s: How do they kill the neurons? We truly don’t have a good understanding of the toxicity of those ...

Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of some common parasitic mites were covered in a session at the Fetch dvm360 Conference in Atlantic City Richard Gerhold, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVM, associate professor ...

A gathering in North Carolina last year resulted in 10 probable cases of a parasitic infection from undercooked bear meat, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Edited by Joseph Kieber, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; received July 29, 2024; accepted September 9, 2024 ...

So-called Guanylate Binding Proteins (GBPs) play a crucial role in our innate immune system, explains biophysicist Arjen Jakobi: “GBPs form the first line of defence against various infectious ...

So-called Guanylate Binding Proteins (GBPs) play a crucial role in our innate immune system, explains biophysicist Arjen Jakobi: "GBPs form the first line of defence against various infectious ...