Scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have developed a more precise diagnostic tool to distinguish between two closely related threadworm species, improving the global surveillance of the disease ...
May 30, 2025
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A new tablet combining albendazole and ivermectin is safe and more effective than albendazole alone in treating Trichuris trichiura and other soil-transmitted helminths (STH), according to a clinical trial conducted by the ...
Jan 10, 2025
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Strongyloidiasis—a poorly understood parasitic worm disease common in remote Australian communities and some returned travelers, refugees or asylum seekers—is finally gaining attention in the national research arena.
Jan 12, 2024
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Many Australians likely read the coverage of the live roundworm found in the brain of a New South Wales woman with morbid curiosity. If you missed it, a wriggling, eight-centimeter-long parasitic roundworm was removed from ...
Sep 14, 2023
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