Step-forward in mission to tackle parasitic worm infections
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 21:00
in Health & Medicine
Gastrointestinal parasitic infections, which are worm infections in the intestine, affect nearly one quarter of the world population and normally result in a chronic, long-lived infection associated with poor quality of life and health problems. A team of researchers has identified a pathway that seems to be important in driving the chronic infection and that could now potentially be targeted for therapy.