To avoid contracting infections from their schools’ toilets, some pupils told our correspondent that they often hold back ...

But in the immunosuppressed, it can cause a deadly hyperinfection syndrome, with the worms going through accelerating and ...

The mosquitoes capable of spreading the parasites then are still present today. While the most important malaria mosquito in Australia, Anopheles faurati, is limited to northern regions of coastal ...

In a video uploaded to social media platform TikTok, Doctor Suraj Kukadia explained the risks of using tap water for this ...

Intestinal protozoan infections took center stage with the rapid spread of HIV infection and AIDS. Interestingly, some of the protozoa, particularly C. parvum and Isospora belli, ...

Compounds for treating protozoan infections and related diseases. Source: United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Credit: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The granted patent ...

Infections with intestinal protozoa (eg, Cryptosporidium spp, Entamoeba histolytica, and Giardia intestinalis) cause substantial gastrointestinal morbidity, malnutrition, and mortality worldwide. 1–4 ...

The goal of this study was to determine how common and widespread geo-helminths, STH, and intestinal protozoa infections are in the Mathira constituency of Nyeri County, Kenya. The study aimed to ...

Protozoal Infection is an indication for drug development with over 390 pipeline drugs currently active. According to GlobalData, preregistered drugs for Protozoal Infection have a 100% likelihood of ...

Human protozoan infections are an important target for development of new vaccines and drugs. No completely efficacious vaccines for human protozoan infections are available and in the case of malaria ...

A single celled organism with a nucleus can cause a protozoan infection. Protozoa commonly show features similar to those of animals, such as mobility, and they can survive outside the human body.

Chemokines belong to the group of small proteins within the cytokine family having strong chemo-attractant properties. In most cases, the strong immuno-modulatory role of chemokines is crucial for ...