A parasitic infection transmitted to humans by cats affects billions of people and can alter their behavior. New research ...

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic infection which affects roughly 1 in 3 humans: around 2.4 billion ... The infection is caused by a brain parasite transmitted by cats. The parasite lives in a sort ...

Penn Vet researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii ...

The researchers demonstrated that these genomic adjustments had not interfered with Toxoplasma’s trademark talent: When peripherally injected into mice, parasites carrying the fusion protein were ...

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Doctors in China inadvertently took time-series images of parasitic worms actively invading a woman's brain and causing ... for genetic signatures of parasites in her cerebrospinal fluid and ...

or think this value is outweighed by the parasites harming their hosts or the risk of diseases spilling over into humans and livestock. Although this could be due to incomplete awareness ...

Eating undercooked meat is never a good idea—it can give you a nasty case of food poisoning within 24 hours. And there are ...

The fluid underwent a diagnostic test, and finally the woman had an answer — she had parasites in her brain. Doctors discovered Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a parasitic species of roundworm also ...