In the 1970s, William Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura discovered a class of drugs called avermectins that have helped to control two of the world’s most debilitating tropical diseases: lymphatic filariasis ...

Filarial nematodes -- microscopic, thread-like roundworms -- currently infect up to 54 million people worldwide and are the leading cause of disability in the developing world. Now, researchers have ...

Filarial nematodes--microscopic, thread-like roundworms--currently infect up to 54 million people worldwide and are the leading cause of disability in the developing world. Now, researchers reporting ...

Infecting mosquitoes with a bacterial parasite could help prevent the spread of lymphatic filariasis, one of the major neglected tropical diseases of the developing world, according to new research in ...

The nematode species Dirofilaria repens and Dirofilaria immitis, previously endemic to Southern and Eastern Europe, are transmitted by mosquitoes primarily to canine hosts. The parasites mature inside ...

“nematode factors are in part responsible for inducing the changes that are seen in the lymphatic system” B. malayi and W. bancrofti replicate through a complicated life cycle that begins in humans ...

Array The petal-like structures in this image are heartworm oocytes (red), each with a large nucleus (green). parasites (green flecks) have started to invade. In the center is actin (blue), a protein ...

Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus (O. volvulus). River blindness is on the World Health Organization’s list of ...

Filariasis is a parasitic infection caused by thread-like nematodes (filariae) that belong to the roundworm superfamily filarioidea. These infestations are common in tropical countries such as ...

With more than 80,000 described species that are extremely diverse in terms of ecology and biology, the Nematoda phylum is one of the most common animal phyla. This month's Genome Watch describes ...

Filarial nematodes are thread-like parasitic worms. They cause painful and disfiguring swelling of the legs — a condition known as elephantiasis. Now scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the ...

While most of the thousands of nematode species on Earth are not harmful, some cause diseases in humans and other animals or attack and feed on living plants. Luckily, there are ways to deter these ...