Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have developed widespread drug resistance in both North America and Australia.

A new study from the Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble characterized the structure of an important trypanosomal protein ...

The European Medicines Agency’s positive opinion for ivermectin-albendazole for treating soil-transmitted helminth infections ...

So far, no preventative vaccination against malaria exists, and its control depends heavily upon antimalarial drugs that kill parasites inside the human body. Malaria has been noted for more than ...

"Also, we hope that combining two drugs with different mechanisms of action will reduce the risk of the parasites becoming drug-resistant," he adds. The ALIVE clinical trial, conducted in Ethiopia ...