Texas is ramping up preparations to meet the looming invasion of New World screwworm, a parasitic fly threatening the state’s multibillion-dollar livestock industry. The insect is typically found in ...

Here’s a comforting thought: you might not actually be alone in your own body right now. Parasites are far more common than most people realize, and they don’t care about your personal boundaries, ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has directed the state Parks and Wildlife Department and Animal Health Commission to form a joint response team to combat the spread of the New World screwworm. “The recent ...

A novel target against toxoplasma. Toxoplasma gondii infects roughly one third of the world’s population, typically asymptomatically but with severe consequences in immunocompro ...

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Eimeria species are intracellular apicomplexan parasites that cause coccidiosis, an economically significant disease affecting poultry and rabbits across the globe. The infection results in intestinal ...

A protein known for helping cells withstand stress may also act as a switch that triggers free-swimming Schistosoma larvae to begin penetrating the skin and transforming into the parasitic flatworms ...