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 ...

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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 ...

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Strongyloides affects up to 40% of foreign-born Canadians and is often asymptomatic. Risk factors for hyperinfection, which is associated with a high risk of death, include use of immunosuppressant ...

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 ...

A 65-year-old Vietnamese immigrant was hospitalized for persistent abdominal pain and malodorous black stools. He was being treated with glucocorticoids for giant-cell arteritis.

“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 ...