Scientists have shed new light on Ascaris infection, which affects 1 billion people worldwide. Targeting specific liver proteins may offer new preventative options against an infection that kills ...

image: Ascaris larva is in liver histological section stained with Hemotoxylin and Eosin. view more Credit: C. Dold and C. Holland. Approximately one billion people worldwide are estimated to be ...

We are one step closer to understanding a worm infection affecting one in eight of the world population. A new Irish-led study shines a light on what can make us vulnerable to the disease.

IT has long been a matter of uncertainty whether the ascaris parasite of the domestic pig is specifically identical with Ascaris lumbricoides L. 1758 from the intestine of man. The evidence, as ...

IN March 1950, a fæcal specimen was collected from a patient in the Brisbane General Hospital, who was infected with Ascaris lumbricoides. This was preserved by the addition of hot 10 per cent ...

Cell-free extracts of adult female Ascaris suum can convert 2-hydroxy-4-methylthiobutyrate and 2-keto-4-methylthiobutyrate to methionine. The oxidation of the hydroxy analogue utilizes NAD as cofactor ...