Toxoplasma: Some sperm cells had holes in their head, suggesting the parasites were trying to invade them as it would any ...

Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good ...

Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks. However, parasite cleanses ...

Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.

A disease called babesiosis involves parasites that first appear in rodents, and it's becoming more prevalent in Maryland.

Mosquitoes exposed to the newly developed compounds show reduced malarial parasite growth even when infected four days later.

Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have even evolved sophisticated strategies to evade a host’s immune system by avoiding it entirely.