The study of AQPs is a worthwhile endeavor that is more likely to advance our understanding of how water transport works in living cells and especially in protozoan parasites. Recently ...

Sarcocystis miescheriana is a protozoan parasite with a prey-predator life cycle. Domestic and wild pigs may serve as intermediate hosts, potentially ingesting infective oocysts or sporocysts shed ...

Civil unrest in key endemic regions, such as the Central African Republic and southwestern Cameroon, has hindered disease ...

The journey to eliminate malaria is complex, hindered by the parasite's adaptability and challenges in vaccine development.

A shipment of beef tongues imported from the US was intercepted at Taiwan’s border after being found to contain a parasite ...

and a protozoan parasite of monarch butterflies) have so far provided clear support for the trade-off theory. Hosts can also evolve in response to infection in ways that influence virulence.

The relatively recent discovery of aquaporins (AQP) has introduced a new mechanism of membrane transport that may provide a therapeutic target for parasitic protozoan infections. The AQP family of ...