Scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have developed a more precise diagnostic tool to distinguish between two closely related threadworm species, improving the global ...

In a recent article posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers present the protocol for their systematic review on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and ...

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Human strongyloidiasis is endemic throughout much of Africa, Asia, South America and the South Eastern United States. Primary infection involves penetration of the skin by soil-dwelling infectious ...

Strongyloides affects up to 40% of foreign-born Canadians and is often asymptomatic. Risk factors for hyperinfection, which is associated with a high risk of death, include use of immunosuppressant ...

Unlike other nematode parasites, Strongyloides stercoralis has the unique ability to carry out its entire life cycle within a human host, a state known as autoinfection. Researchers identified a way ...

“YOU ARE not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” As the message from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implies, ivermectin—a drug used to treat parasites, including in horses ...