Brain-damaging infections, which are caused by tapeworm eggs accidentally ingested through undercooked food or fruits and ...

Tapeworm eggs can go anywhere in the body, including the skin, brain and other organs, although many infections never lead to symptoms, said Paul Cantey, a medical epidemiologist in the Center for ...

Most people don't have any symptoms, so doctors have to take a stool sample to look for eggs from or parts of the tapeworm. If you do have symptoms, they can include stomach discomfort, diarrhea ...

As the monsoon rains persist in Mumbai, doctors have issued a health advisory over a spike in tapeworm infections, ...

When the researchers fed the mice worm eggs, the population of good bacteria, called Clostridiales, shot up. In contrast the amount of bad bacteria, called Bacteroides, went down.

As the number of eggs found in the patient's stool diminished, his symptoms began to return. When his tissue became inflamed again three years later, he reinfected himself with 2,000 eggs and got ...

Bogoch and his collaborators found that the iPhone procedure had a sensitivity of 69.4 percent for detecting any parasitic worm egg and sensitivities of 81.0, 54.4, and 14.3 percent for the ...

No worm eggs or additional worms were found in stool samples from the young girl. The Mississippi State Department of Health visited the patient's home, but the family's pigs had been sent to ...

Using stool samples from Viking latrines, researchers have genetically mapped one of the oldest human parasites -- the whipworm. The mapping reflects the parasite's global spread and its ...

Using a hot bath to raise body temperature or worms eggs to stimulate immunoregulatory production in the gut are 2 novel approaches that may ease autism symptoms.