From December 1980 through November 1981, 145 raccoons (Procyon lotor) from Land Between The Lakes in Stewart County, Tennessee, and Lyon and Trigg counties, Kentucky, were examined for helminth ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In north-central Texas streams, seasonal changes in ambient temperature and rainfall result in dynamic variation in microhabitat structure, ...

The study of helminth parasites in amphibians encompasses a broad range of parasitic worms including nematodes, trematodes and cestodes. These organisms, adapted to exploit amphibian hosts, play ...

Washington, DC - April 8, 2019 - Intestinal infection with helminths--a class of worm-like parasites--prevented weight gain in laboratory mice on a high-fat diet. The helminths did so by boosting ...

Neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs, are a group of chronic, debilitating, communicable diseases that predominantly affect those living in poverty in developing countries in Latin America, Africa and ...

Parasitic worms known as helminths have a complicated relationship with the immune systems of the hosts they invade. Termed by experts as “masters of immunomodulation”, worms are able to tinker with ...

Every two weeks, Alex Chinitz swallows the strangest of brews: fruit juice with 20 to 30 larvae of Hymenolepis diminuta mixed in. That fancy Latin word is the name of a helminth—a tapeworm, to be ...