We're about to dive into the world of parasitology, taking a close look at one of the most common parasitic worms infecting humans: Ascaris lumbricoides. This large roundworm is responsible for a type ...

Approximately one billion people worldwide are estimated to be infected with the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, an intestinal parasite of humans. Some of them, especially children who carry high ...

Scientists have shed new light on Ascaris infection, which affects 1 billion people worldwide. Targeting specific liver proteins may offer new preventative options against an infection that kills ...

Parasitic worms are having a slimy moment. In the wake of news that a 3-inch snake parasite burrowed into a woman’s brain comes the horrifying report of giant intestinal worms that went wandering in a ...

We reasoned that the high prevalence of such variants, which promote asthma in early life, might derive from a counterbalancing evolutionary advantage of the variants in promoting protective Th-2 ...

Two Ascaris lumbricoides nematods, i.e., roundworms. Photo credit: CDC Could a farm animal be the source of a parasite that a two-year old girl is hosting? It was summertime in our pediatric office — ...

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin and Maynooth University are part of a team that has unearthed a potential new preventative option to combat Ascaris roundworm infection. Ascaris lumbricoides, an ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that Richard III suffered from a roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides infection. Researchers based at the University of Cambridge and the University of Leicester have ...

Parasites can be pretty: pretty cute, pretty awesome and sometimes pretty creepy. This article is part one of a five-part series featuring some of Dr. Bobbi Pritt's "freaky favorites," ranked from 1 ...

The merthiolate-iodine-formalin (MIF) technique to detect human intestinal parasites in feces was inefficient for the detection of hookworm and Trichuris trichiura eggs. Addition of a saturated-brine ...