New research from the University of California, Riverside suggests mammals have regulatory systems in place that lower the body’s immune response to a parasitic infection, such as hookworm, instead of ...

Dear Doctor: I read a terrible story about a couple who went to the Caribbean and got hookworms by going barefoot. Is that only possible in the tropics, or should I be worried here in the United ...

Treatments are limited for soil-transmitted helminth infections, especially those due to Trichuris trichiura. In this phase 2a, dose-ranging clinical trial, emodepside showed activity against T.

HOOKWORMS AND FRIENDS>> Peter Hotez, the director of the Sabin Institute's Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative, is prominent in Merrill Goozner's feature on the initiative's trials now getting underway ...