A microscopic parasite that can live for decades in the human brain infects an estimated one-third of the world's population ...

Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite famous for its cunning ways. This microbial manipulator can only reproduce inside of cats, so, if it finds itself in another mammalian host, like a rat, it ...

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health ...

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A team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, explains in a paper published in PLOS Pathogens how a microscopic parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can significantly disrupt brain function ...