Reported number of countries (within bars) and people treated with praziquantel (above bars) against schistosomiasis since 1988 and projections for 2018.

Brain parasites, those that infect the central nervous system which includes the brain, are potentially the most damaging and ...

Spread of schistosomiasis, a deadly parasitic disease that can cause anemia, infertility, and other illnesses, can be prevented by freshwater prawns. Schistosomiasis, a deadly parasitic disease ...

Former President and humanitarian Jimmy Carter dies at the age of 100. Jimmy Carter, who was a peanut farmer in Georgia, won his presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War.

Currently the drug praziquantel is the only treatment for schistosomiasis, so one crucial application of the collection could be monitoring for the potential spread of drug resistance genes.

The impact of schistosomiasis on the susceptibility ... particularly in view of up-scaling the current administration of praziquantel, which holds the risk of developing drug-resistant parasites.