Intestinal worms are parasites that live in your gut ... That means you might be able to see worms or pieces of worms in human poop. There are many types of worms that might be in your poop ...

A recent X-ray scan showcasing calcified parasites embedded throughout a patient's body has gone viral, highlighting the ...

Most people don't get excited about intestinal parasite eggs preserved in 500-year-old human feces. But Marissa Ledger isn't like most people. "A lot of my research is focused on actually studying ...

Its role in human health is still a topic of ... is the relationship between Blastocystis and the gut microbiome. A study comparing the stool microbiota of Blastocystis-positive and negative ...

The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...

Horsehair worms, belonging to ... as well as the ecological roles these parasites play in their environments. One study examined the impact of two types of intestinal parasites—gregarines ...

Human-associated gut microbial communities are composed not only of bacteria but also of protozoa, whose role in the gut ecosystem is only recently starting to be uncovered. Trans-kingdom interactions ...

Without treatment, severe infestations can cause bowel blockages and tapeworms have been recorded as growing up to 15 metres long in the intestines of human ... intestinal worm infection to present ...

Among the museum's selection of parasites is an 8.8-meter-long tapeworm recovered intact from a hapless diner’s intestine ... thread-like object in his feces,” Kuramochi said.