Apicomoplexa are unicellular parasitic protists with no locomotory organelles (flagella, pseudopods or cilia); however, some species possess motile structures, such as flagella or pseudopods, only in ...

Florida is one of 17 states reporting cases of an intestinal illness linked to a microscopic parasite that can sometimes ...

A parasite is an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species. Three main classes of parasites can cause disease in humans: protozoa, helminths, and ectoparasites. Protozoa and ...

Protozoan parasites represent a persistent and multifaceted threat to marine aquaculture, affecting a broad range of farmed species from finfish to shellfish across temperate and tropical regions.

"There is no drug that cures it at this point." The post Parasite That Affects Cognition Has Quietly Infected Billions of ...

Scientists finally know how Italy’s Renaissance-era Medici brothers died - Findings confirm one of the brothers wasn’t ...

Researchers from the University of Toronto have discovered that mice infected with the common gut parasite Tritrichomonas muris are at an increased risk of developing inflammatory colitis. Their ...

The National Veterinary Research Institute in Poland reports the first molecular detection of Sarcocystis miescheriana in a condemned pig carcass in that country. The research confirms only the fourth ...

Vaccines are one of the most important tools we have in our defense against infectious diseases, but not everyone responds to vaccination in the same way. Parasites such as worms and viruses change ...

MiDOG Animal Diagnostics, a leader in next-generation sequencing-based veterinary diagnostics, today announced the launch of MiDOG Parasite-Only Testing, a first-of-its-kind dedicated NGS-based ...