In the United States, the most well-known skin-penetrating parasitic worm, called a nematode, is the hookworm. But globally, ...

This aligns with findings from Cameroon, where a study on strongylid nematodes in humans and great apes showed a high diversity of parasites shared between the two groups, further illustrating the ...

Globally, over 600 million people are infected with the skin-penetrating threadworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions with poor sanitation infrastructure.

The nematode worm C. elegans will stay away from ... of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa that causes infections in humans. Even though that avoidance behavior is not encoded in the genes ...