The ongoing investigation into the gastrointestinal outbreak linked to the Saskatoon Farm saw several updates over the ...

Alberta Health Services in Calgary, Canada, (AHS) has identified a gastrointestinal outbreak among patrons of a food facility ...

Alberta Health Services says 18 people have tested positive for presumptive E. coli — three of whom also tested positive for ...

As a result, AHS will be asking more people to get tested, in case they have been infected by the parasite. Specifically, ...

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The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes ...

Initial microscopy at the site revealed the presence of cysts in stools with Entamoeba histolytica-like morphology. However, later genetic testing was negative, suggesting cysts may have been E ...

Entamoeba histolytica kills human cells through trogocytosis or “cell nibbling” where amoebae bite off and ingest fragments of human cells. UC Davis researchers Katherine Ralston, Hannah ...

Nicole Mackey-Lawrence and Bill Petri discuss how the adipokine leptin affects immunity to mucosal infections and describe a newly uncovered role for leptin-receptor polymorphisms in mediating ...