A new tablet being developed to cure intestinal worms has shown promising results in trials and could help eradicate the ...

This large roundworm is responsible for a type of intestinal nematode infection that affects millions of people worldwide, ...

Soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) are caused by four species of parasitic worms ( Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and the hookworms Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus) that are ...

A fixed-dose combination of albendazole and ivermectin may be a better tool against soil-transmitted helminths, that cause ...

Once inside the spider, the tiny worm obtains nourishment from it's hosts body fluids, digestive glands, gonads ('parasitic castration') and muscles. As a consequence the spider becomes ...

elegans worms. The size of the spheres allowed them to pass through the worm's digestive system until they met a structure known as the grinder, that, like its name suggests, grinds up the food ...