The trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, known as the gut microbiome, have a major impact on human health and disease. These microbes help us digest food and absorb nutrients; they can ...

A newly published study in the Journal of Medical Entomology provides critical insights into the emergence of babesiosis in the Mid-Atlantic region, documenting human cases and the presence of Babesia ...

The new observation that strains of V. cholerae can be expelled into the environment after being ingested by protozoa, and that these bacteria are then primed for colonization and infection in humans, ...

The protozoan disease visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has recently expanded to places where it had not previously been reported and has expanded its geographic distribution within countries where it was ...

Stool specimens from 89 high-risk, sexually active homosexual men were screened for enteric protozoal cysts. Patients whose specimens contained nonpathogenic cysts were investigated further by ...

IN this book the author brings together data and observations which he considers enable him to state definitely that cancer andf certain other diseases are caused by protozoa belonging to the same ...

Climate warming can impact plant quality, which in turn shapes the nutrition and immune defense of insect herbivores like ...

ATTEMPTS to discover the presence of a foreign organism in such diseases as tobacco-mosaic, tomatomosaic, leaf-roll of potato, and numerous other similar infectious diseases have been the concern of ...

Single celled organisms in the environment are protecting pathogenic bacteria and priming them for human infection, an international team of researchers has discovered. Microorganisms such as protozoa ...