BARCELONA, Spain — New research on the intestinal parasite Dientamoeba fragilis has added fuel to the debate about the pathogenicity of the controversial protozoan.. The multicenter study found ...

When parasites catch viruses: Viral symbiont of a protozoan parasite increases virulence to human host. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 11 ...

When humans have parasites, the organisms live in our bodies, co-opt our resources and cause disease. However, it turns out that parasites themselves can have their own co-habitants. Researchers ...

From cancer to infectious diseases to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, there ...

Although cats are the final host, the parasite can infest any warm-blooded animal, including humans. In an investigation of how the pathogen manages to infect such a broad range of hosts, ...

The pathogen is one of the most common infectious parasites in the world and could lay dormant in up to half of the world's population, as well as almost any warm-blooded animal species.

Using large-scale screening, the researchers searched for genes whose loss does not kill the pathogen but halts its ...

Leishmania are flagellated protozoan parasites that rely on both sandfly and mammalian hosts.Leishmania species cause severe diseases, especially in tropical countries. Due to their peculiar life ...

Oregon officials have killed about 160,000 rainbow trout to stop the spread of a pathogen they hadn’t seen before. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife staff discovered the parasite after they ...

The research, published this month (September 12) in PLOS Biology, provides potential targets for a vaccine against the pathogen. A.D. Uboldi et al., “Protein kinase A negatively regulates Ca 2+ ...

'Mystery' pathogen killing Central Florida frogs worse than previously thought. ... The parasite, Amphibian Perkinsea, infected a third of frogs that UCF researchers sampled, ...