Seemingly innocent microorganisms may have harmful consequences: Ubiquitous waterborne protozoa appear capable of aiding the survival of several types of bacteria responsible for gut-wrenching food ...

Biologists have developed a sensor that employs one-celled protozoa to detect toxins in water sources. The new technique works by introducing protozoa into small chambers with water samples taken from ...

A new test using protozoa — single-celled organisms — has been developed by U.K. researchers, who say it has "great potential" for reducing the use of animals to determine the safety of cosmetics.

Legionella pneumophila, the bacterial agent of legionnaires' disease, replicates intracellularly within a specialized vacuole of mammalian and protozoan host cells. Little is known about the ...

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Researchers have analyzed drinking water and detected oocysts of Cryptosporidium and cysts of Giardia, two protozoa that cause outbreaks of diarrhea in humans. The levels detected are very low and do ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 18 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests some lake sturgeon might harbor a protozoan parasite that can cause a sexually transmitted disease in humans. Purdue University Professor ...

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PROF. C. A. KOFOID delivered, on December 27 last in Boston, an address as vice-president of Section F (Zoology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as president of the ...

Some protozoa infect the brain of their host, shaping its behavior in ways most suited to the pathogen, even if it leads to the suicide of the host THE ANCIENT DEBATE surrounding the existence of free ...