Recent investigations of helminth parasites in lizard populations across Northeastern Brazil have opened new avenues in understanding host–parasite dynamics in a region marked by its unique ...

A growing body of research is suggesting that parasitic worms could in fact have a positive effect on our immune system. A new study is bolstering that hypothesis, finding in animal experiments that a ...

Helminths recovered from 25 nestlings, 65 juvenile, and 55 adult black-billed magpies, Pica pica hudsonia (Sabine, 1823) between April 1963 and April 1964, were Echinostoma sp., Dilepis undula, ...

New research looked at if exposure to pathogens, in particular helminths, can stimulate the immune system and reduce predisposition for inflammatory bowel disease. According to the World Health ...

Millions of patients worldwide are infected with parasitic worms. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), helminth worms are particularly common. Helminth infections are most prevalent in ...

A newly discovered pathway reveals potential therapeutic target against helminth infections. New research from the University of Pittsburgh (PA, USA) reveals how the immune system defends against ...

Scientists are only just beginning to understand how parasitic helminth worms inhabiting the mammalian intestine and other tissues manipulate their hosts. In at least some cases, helminths may help ...

Are intestinal worms the next probiotic? Some scientists think so. A growing body of research suggests that infection with helminths, or parasitic worms, may help balance the immune system and reduce ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Explanations for the variable number of helminth parasite species in each fish host species were sought using the independent variables: ...

Parasitic worms could hold the key to living longer and free of chronic disease, according to a review article. Parasitic worms could hold the key to living longer and free of chronic disease, ...

Every two weeks, Alex Chinitz swallows the strangest of brews: fruit juice with 20 to 30 larvae of Hymenolepis diminuta mixed in. That fancy Latin word is the name of a helminth—a tapeworm, to be ...