Scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have developed a more precise diagnostic tool to distinguish between two closely related threadworm species, improving the global ...

Strongyloides stercoralis is an intestinal nematode responsible for strongyloidiasis, a largely neglected tropical disease that affects millions worldwide. Infection typically occurs through skin ...

Strongyloidiasis—a poorly understood parasitic worm disease common in remote Australian communities and some returned travelers, refugees or asylum seekers—is finally gaining attention in the national ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Among the progeny of parasitic females of Strongyloides ransomi, males did not appear in significant numbers until the 7th week of infection ...

In a recent article posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers present the protocol for their systematic review on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cure rates were comparable for patients with strongyloidiasis treated with either moxidectin (93.6%) or ...

Human strongyloidiasis is endemic throughout much of Africa, Asia, South America and the South Eastern United States. Primary infection involves penetration of the skin by soil-dwelling infectious ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The direction of free-living development (homogonic vs. heterogonic) in Strongyloides stercoralis and Strongyloides planiceps was examined by ...

Unlike other nematode parasites, Strongyloides stercoralis has the unique ability to carry out its entire life cycle within a human host, a state known as autoinfection. Researchers identified a way ...

“YOU ARE not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” As the message from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implies, ivermectin—a drug used to treat parasites, including in horses ...