A microscopic parasite that quietly settles into the brain of humans and animals is not nearly as quiet as scientists once believed.

Love Cats? Here’s the hidden parasite they might be passing to you: Researchers have discovered a potential "off-switch" for ...

Rajshekhar Gaji was staring at something that should not exist. Under his microscope, parasites that should have been thriving ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, explains in a paper published in PLOS ...

Tajie Harris, PhD, is the director of the Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG Center) at the University of Virginia School ...

A microscopic parasite that can live for decades in the human brain infects an estimated one-third of the world’s population ...

Clinical case: A novel parasite identified in a patient after months of diagnostic uncertainty. © Hossain, M., Kennedy, K.

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health ...