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Suspected brain cancer turns out to be pork tapeworm infestation
Doctors in Spain suspected that a man suffering from chronic headaches had brain cancer. A scan showed a number of ...
After a trip to India, the woman was diagnosed with neurocysticercosis, a preventable brain infection caused by Taenia solium ...
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have identified a specific enzyme inside immune cells that keeps Toxoplasma gondii, one of the most common brain parasites on the planet, ...
Discovery of brain parasite's unique control protein offers hope for better toxoplasmosis treatments
Rajshekhar Gaji was staring at something that should not exist. Under his microscope, parasites that should have been thriving were instead dying—completely unable to survive without a protein his lab ...
A parasite that may already be hiding in your brain has a shocking survival trick: it can infect the very immune cells sent to destroy it. Yet most people never get sick, and new research from UVA ...
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