A new study identifies an extreme but effective way that brain immune cells can prevent the parasite Toxoplasma gondii from ...

A parasite that may already be hiding in your brain has a shocking survival trick: it can infect the very immune cells sent ...

A red, parasitic worm turned out to be behind the woman's wide array of symptoms. | Credit: Hossain, M., Kennedy, K. J., ...

Mouse red blood cells infected with the parasite Babesia microti acquired the ability to move, offering new insight into host-pathogen interactions.

An apicomplexan parasite (green) without the CLAMP complex is unable to invade a host cell (gray). Credit: Wandy Beaty/ Washington University An apicomplexan parasite (green) without the CLAMP complex ...

Scientists have found that a special component in some people's blood provides them with natural protection against malaria.

Malaria is caused by a eukaryotic microbe of the Plasmodium genus, and is responsible for more deaths than all other parasitic diseases combined. In order to transmit from the human host to the ...

In a new paper, published in PLOS Biology, a team of scientists at the university, along with collaborators across the globe, show how they have uncovered key regulators of how malaria parasites ...

Scientists at Stockholm University and collaborators say they have used high-resolution genomic tools to map the global repertoire of genes of gametocyte development toward the male or the female ...

University of Calgary researchers have discovered how Leishmania parasites hide within the body to cause Leishmaniasis. The tiny parasites are carried by infected sand flies. Considered a tropical ...

The European Commission has named the labs that will lead work on bacteria, parasites, and viruses. The European Reference Laboratories (EURLs) are for food- and water-borne bacteria, food- and ...