The parasite spends the first stage of its life cycle in the salivary glands of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. When an infected mosquito bites a human, the malaria parasite enters the red blood ...

Parasites that exhibit a complex life cycle require a definitive host for reproduction and one or more intermediate host species for growth and development. Vector-borne pathogens are transmitted ...

These changes typically occur when the parasite is at a stage of its life cycle when it can successfully infect the primary host. Behavioral changes that favor parasite transmission often involve ...

Here's everything you need to know about the brutal life cycle of Xenomorphs and what makes them so unbelievably lethal.

Follow the circular life cycle of Schistosoma, a life-threatening parasite that can live in water, snails and even people. Watch our stop-motion video to learn how the sneaky Schistosoma parasite ...

Malaria is caused by a eukaryotic microbe of the Plasmodium genus, and is responsible for more deaths than all other ...

Dr Sam Ghali, an emergency physician in Florida, shared a shocking CT scan revealing severe parasitic infection in a ...

Why should you care about a war between parasites inside of a snail? Well, human lives might depend on who wins that battle. Trematodes cannot complete their life cycle without shuffling through ...

A shocking CT scan recently shared by Dr. Sam Ghali on X reveals the frightening effects of cysticercosis, a parasitic ...

An environmentally conscious dairy farmer has cut youngstock treatments by 70% thanks to a pioneering multi-pronged approach ...

In order to transmit from the human host to the mosquito vector, the parasite has to differentiate to its sexual ... mosquito in order to initiate the unrelenting transmission cycle. “We have combined ...

In order to transmit from the human host to the mosquito vector, the parasite has to differentiate ... to initiate the unrelenting transmission cycle. "We have combined state-of-the-art single ...