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Headlines about brain worms can be alarming. There are much more common parasites which can infect your body and brain and ways you can minimise your risks of being infected with one.
We looked at eye photos and found one in every 150 Australians might have scarring from a common parasitic disease.
Classical antibiotics that directly kill pathogens are prone to elicit drug-resistance. Targeting host enzymes required for pathogen survival offers can limit the emergence of resistance.
Ivermectin has been a lifesaving drug for people with parasitic infections like river blindness and strongyloidiasis. But taking it for COVID-19 may result in the opposite effect.
Antimicrobial resistance is a public health and economic disaster waiting to happen. If we do not address this threat, by 2050 more people will die from drug-resistant infections than from cancer.
A new treatment which targets proteins in cells could be key for future schistosomiasis treatment.
A stomach-churning viral video of an Oregon woman who describes removing cattle eyeworms from her eye has renewed interest in parasites that jump from animals to humans. Here’s all you need to know.
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Professor of Eye & Vision Health, Flinders University
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Assistant professor, University of Guelph
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Professor of Parasitology, Aberystwyth University
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Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
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Associate Professor of Pharmacy, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Biocchemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University
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Professor, RMIT University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University
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RMIT University
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RMIT University
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Associate Professor and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
