The trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, known as the gut microbiome, have a major impact on human health and disease. These microbes help us digest food and absorb nutrients; they can ...

The new observation that strains of V. cholerae can be expelled into the environment after being ingested by protozoa, and that these bacteria are then primed for colonization and infection in humans, ...

The protozoan disease visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has recently expanded to places where it had not previously been reported and has expanded its geographic distribution within countries where it was ...

IN this book the author brings together data and observations which he considers enable him to state definitely that cancer andf certain other diseases are caused by protozoa belonging to the same ...

Stool specimens from 89 high-risk, sexually active homosexual men were screened for enteric protozoal cysts. Patients whose specimens contained nonpathogenic cysts were investigated further by ...

ATTEMPTS to discover the presence of a foreign organism in such diseases as tobacco-mosaic, tomatomosaic, leaf-roll of potato, and numerous other similar infectious diseases have been the concern of ...

In 1907, French physician and parasitologist Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing ...

Dr. Ramona Hurdayal is a Lecturer at the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town and is Y1-rated by the National Research Foundation. She receives funding ...

Diseases live and spread in humans, animals, and non-living objects. Contagious diseases can infect people from skin-to-skin contact, breathing, eating, and other pathways. Most contagious diseases ...

Responsibility for public health protection from communicable diseases exists at three government levels in the U.S. (federal, state/tribe, and local/municipal), with states having the authority to ...

Single celled organisms in the environment are protecting pathogenic bacteria and priming them for human infection, an international team of researchers has discovered. Microorganisms such as protozoa ...