A Florida woman’s serious pneumonia that landed her in the hospital turned out to have a very strange culprit: deer meat ...

Infections can trigger pregnancy complications, and now, new miniature versions of the placenta are helping show why.

Imagine a common ant scouring its habitat for food when it stumbles upon a snail’s slime balls. The ant chows down the snail slime, which, unbeknownst to it, contains the larvae of Dicrocoelium ...

"We had an open mind, and we reported the published findings." Previous research linking cat exposure to schizophrenia risk ...

Science Alert goes on to report that once inside our bodies, T. gondii can infiltrate the central nervous system and ...

Southern sea otters in San Luis Obispo County are dying from a rare and aggressive strain of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite originates from a host seemingly removed from the sea otters’ ...

The placenta's response to infections from malaria, toxoplasmosis and listeria has been mapped in high resolution, possibly paving the way for new treatment options.

Many of the studies specifically linked Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) – also known as the “cat poop parasite” – to increased rates of mental illnesses including schizophrenia among cat owners.

Those students who tested positive in a saliva test for T. gondii exposure "were 1.4 times more likely to major in business and 1.7 times more likely to have an emphasis in ‘management and ...

The first panoramic view of infection pathways in the human placenta has been created, which could highlight potential drug targets to develop pregnancy-safe therapies for malaria, toxoplasmosis and ...

In a new study, scientists found that people who owned cats before age 25 were about twice as likely to develop schizophrenia Being a cat owner can double the risk of developing schizophrenia ...