Malaria-carrying mosquitos appear to be manipulated by the parasites they carry, but this manipulation may simply be part of the mosquitos' immune response, according to Penn State entomologists. "Normally, after a female mosquito ingests a blood meal, she matures her eggs and does not take...
Knowing the temperatures that viruses, bacteria, worms and all other parasites need to grow and survive could help determine the future range of infectious diseases under climate change, according to new research. Princeton University researchers developed a model that can identify the prospects...
A team in Israel believes the hope of a cure for malaria is a step closer after discovering a genetic cloaking device that the parasite uses to evade the immune system and establish infection. They suggest a treatment that interferes with the DNA of the cloaking device could give the immune...
An international team of scientists, using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, has revealed the three dimensional structure of a key enzyme that enables the single-celled parasite that causes African trypanosomiasis (or sleeping sickness) in humans. With the elucidation of the 3D structure of...
A new study demonstrates for the first time how the Toxoplasma gondii parasvite enters the brain to influence its host's behavior. This research was led by researchers from the Karolinska Institute and Uppsala University in Sweden publishes today in the Open Access journal PLOS Pathogens. The...
Fresh discoveries about how the malaria parasite responds to drugs could help inform strategies for treating infection. Scientists have shown for the first time that severe strains of the parasite, which cause the most harmful malarial infections, are harder to kill with treatment than less...
The World Health Organization estimates that in 2011 there were 216 million cases of malaria and 34.2 million people living with HIV. These diseases particularly afflict sub-Saharan Africa, where large incidence of co-infection result in high mortality rates. Yet, in spite of this global...
A new study found that women who are infected with the parasite T. Gondii (which is transmitted in cat poop) have an increased risk of committing suicide. And while pregnant women have long been cautioned not to handle cat excrement because of the risk of toxoplasmosis, the mental health link is...
Scientists have identified which strains of the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, the cause of toxoplasmosis, are most strongly associated with premature births and severe birth defects in the United States. The researchers used a new blood test developed by scientists at the National Institute of...
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii has some favorable effects on the pathogenesis and progression of a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, reports a study in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite commonly hosted in cats and generally known for the potential complications it...
A research group from the University of Leeds has shown that infection by the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, found in 10-20 per cent of the UK's population, directly affects the production of dopamine, a key chemical messenger in the brain. Their findings are the first to demonstrate that a...
By tracking what parasites eat and detailing the exact pathways down which they metabolize nutrients for growth, researchers in Australia believe they have revealed new drug targets for fighting the deadly tropical parasite Leishmania which infects 12 million and kills half a million people...
Emerging infectious diseases do not only affect humans. Wildlife is threatened as well, and an alarming report from Britain documents an avian tragedy of great proportions.
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Discovery Of Chemical Reaction Process Could Lead To New Malaria, TB Treatments Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say that a recent finding could help develop new treatments to fight diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, KWMU reports (LaCapra, 2/15). The...
At first, my goldfish had these black spots (almost like when you get that black mold on damp wood) on his forehead and on the little fins that come up by their nose. A couple of days later, he began getting them on his gills a couple more spots on his head, and it's beginning to streak on his...
I know this may sound a little wierd, but one day I woke up with terrible stomach cramps, I thought it was constipation, so I took a laxative, it did not work. The next day I woke up with a fever and I had to go to the washroom to poop a lot (it was watery and almost like diarheea). Then...
I have a Beta fish and I think it almost died. I used one of the Jungle Tank Buddies tablets:
http://www.aquariumguys.com/parasiteclear.html
He has stopped laying on the bottom of the tank, he got up near the top again and actually ate some food. He's getting better I hope.
He is in a 10...