The Giardia lamblia parasite is a common cause of diarrhea. In someone with an infection, they live in the GI system and leave the body in poop. A Giardia (jee-ARE-dee-uh) test checks a stool sample ...

Most people don't get excited about intestinal parasite eggs preserved in 500-year-old human feces. But Marissa Ledger isn't like most people. "A lot of my research is focused on actually studying ...

The parasite toxoplasma gondii causes toxoplasmosis - an infection that can weaken your immune system to life-threatening complications. You get toxoplasmosis after contact with cat feces or ...

“Don’t wait for the signs of intestinal worm infection to present themselves. According to the World Health Organization, ...

“The method is primarily about enabling wider access to diagnosis of parasitic worm infections,” he says. The researchers ...

Parasitic infections or worms can affect anyone, regardless of age or location. While often associated with unsanitary ...

A parasite found in cat feces may have an influence on risk-taking and entrepreneurial behavior, a team of researchers has found. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the ...

a technician stains some of the stool sample with a special dye and looks at it under a microscope to identify any parasites or ova.

Relationships between gastrointestinal parasites (GIPs) and the gastrointestinal microbiome ... We evaluated the associations between GIP infections and fecal microbiome composition in two habituated ...

Objective To study the association between Dientamoebafragilis colonisation and faecal calprotectin to see whether the parasite is a harmless commensal or a gut pathogen. Design Cross-sectional study ...