The parasites which are responsible include Echinococcus granulosus and Echinococcus multilocularis. Humans acquire the ... (though it can be found in other types of meat as well.) ...

Human African Trypanosomiasis Trypanosomiasis, also called sleeping sickness, is caused by the protozoan parasites Trypanosoma brucei gambiense ... pig meat (though it can be found in other types of ...

These parasites, which include various types of protozoa and helminths (worms), can be transmitted between animals and, in some cases, to humans. Recent research has focused on understanding the ...

But rather than do this, I have decided to be measured and scientific, and convey objectively the destructive and (occasional) helpful things that parasites do to the human body. Despite our suits ...

In other cases, parasites can kill their host. Perhaps the most gruesome type of parasite, parasitoids, kill their hosts in order to reproduce. The disturbing chest-bursting scene from the 1979 ...

We are interested in applying methods from community ecology to study the process of disease in complex assemblages of hosts and parasites. Unfortunately, the types of data necessary to address such ...

Brain tumors are rare, and there are many different types. The most common brain tumors ... T gondii is a common parasite that infects warm-blooded animals, including humans. Infections most often ...