Scientists working out of Trinity College Dublin, Maynooth University, and Queen Mary University of London have unearthed a potential new preventative option to combat Ascaris roundworm infection.

Approximately one billion people worldwide are estimated to be infected with the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, an intestinal parasite of humans. Some of them, especially children who carry high ...

The paper was just published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The study is a collaboration between the University of Bergen, Tartu University Hospital Lung Clinic, University of ...

Doctors from India have successfully removed 14 squirming roundworms from a woman's bile duct, who reportedly suffered from severe abdominal pain for six months. A woman named Sunita, 38, complained ...

The paper «Ascaris exposure associated with lung function, asthma and DNA-methylation in Northern-Europe» was just published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The study is a ...

Parasitic worms can live inside humans gaining nourishment from the food we ingest (roundworms) or from our blood (hook worms), whilst being safe from predators. Although roundworm infections are ...

The Laboratory of Immunoparasitology is a basic science and translational lab focused on understanding the complex relationship between infections, specifically infections of poverty, and the host ...

A study in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology suggests that young European men exposed to roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) have an increased likelihood of developing asthma and significant ...

Scientists working out of Trinity College Dublin, Maynooth University, and Queen Mary University of London have unearthed a potential new preventative option to combat Ascaris roundworm infection.

Exposure to the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides among young men can cause a striking reduction in lung function and nearly five times higher odds of having asthma compared to the non-exposed, ...

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 ...