Trends in Parasitology is a highly regarded review journal of international importance, reflecting the global significance of medical and veterinary parasites. The journal aims to provide a point of ...

Parasitology is the scientific discipline that investigates parasites—organisms that live in or on a host and derive resources at the host’s expense—along with their hosts and the environments that ...

Veterinary parasitology encompasses the study of parasites that affect domestic and wild animal populations, with far‐reaching implications for animal welfare, agricultural productivity and public ...

Microbiologists have shown that Toxoplasma gondii, the parasite that is responsible for toxoplasmosis, utilizes at least two modes of locomotion during its infection cycle. Microbiologists at ...

One of the most common client questions—“How long does a tick need to feed?”—doesn’t have a single answer. Transmission timing varies widely depending on the pathogen and the tick species involved, ...

Aging parasitologists are working hard to inspire more students to enter the field Hannah Richter In the fall of 1985, Scott L. Gardner found himself standing over his toilet bowl, fishing around in ...

The Laboratory of Human Parasitology is dedicated to improving understanding and treatment of parasitic infection through advancing systems of their diagnoses. The laboratory's work involves defining ...

Entamoeba histolytica is a single-cell parasite that causes intestinal disease, but sometimes invades the body, attacking cells and creating liquefying abscesses. UC Davis parasitologist Katherine ...

Helminthological Society of Washington, D.C. Motriuk-Smith, D., R.S. Seville, L. Quealy, and C.E. Oliver. Comparison of the ITS1 and ITS2 rDNA in Eimeria ...

A herring in the North Sea, a crab in the Wadden Sea or an anemone fish on a coral reef… biologists like to think in terms of individual species that all have their own place within food webs in ...