Until three years ago nobody had developed a vaccine against any parasitic disease. Now there are two against malaria: the ...

A Florida woman was hospitalized with severe pneumonia caught from venison that was contaminated with the usually silent Toxoplasma gondii parasite.

At the other extreme we've got disease organisms like the protozoan that causes malaria, which can be very harmful. What's especially important in this context is that if the organism is harmful ...

It is an infectious disease caused by a protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. The disease has been named after Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas, who discovered it in 1909. Chagas Disease is ...

Common pet fish diseases come from poor water quality, stress, overcrowding, and not isolating new or ill fish to stop disease spread. However, you can minimize these factors with proper care and good ...

Texas Parks and Wildlife describes Trichomoniasis as an “infectious disease affecting birds caused by a protozoan ...

Around the spring every year, viruses and diseases in birds are more common to see all over the state and country according ...

Tetrahymena is a large unicellular protozoan with two nuclei, the macronucleus and the micronucleus (Figure 1). The micronucleus is the germ-line nucleus that contains five normal pairs of ...

Trichomoniasis is an infectious disease affecting birds caused by a protozoan (single-celled) parasite, Trichomonas gallinae. It affects mostly pigeons and doves, but other species, such as finches, ...

Another problem occurs in mild weather areas where tropical milkweed survives the winters. Monarchs that visit the plants deposit a protozoan parasite called Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (“OE”) on the ...

Increased risk of infections (eg, viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoan or helminthic). Latent tuberculosis (monitor). Monitor for HPA axis suppression and Cushings syndrome after therapy withdrawal.

More than 600,000 people die of malaria each year. With low-cost, very effective vaccines being deployed we should be able to ...