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Obligate intracellular parasitic protozoan that causes toxoplasmosis
There is no established, generalizable parasite that causes diabetes in humans; large-scale reviews and fact-checkers find associations but not causation, and experts warn that social media claims of ...
Documented instances exist in the medical literature where parasites have invaded pancreatic tissue or the biliary tree and provoked acute or chronic —and in a few case reports that pancreatic damage ...
Parasitic causes of acute pancreatitis are uncommon but well-documented, with the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides cited repeatedly as the single most common parasite implicated, especially in endemic r...
A growing body of observational studies finds higher rates of certain parasitic infections in people with diabetes, while a separate strand of experimental and animal research finds some helminths can...
A small but clear set of parasitic infections has documented pancreatic invasion in humans that can produce pancreatitis and, in some cases, secondary (type 3c) diabetes — most notably cystic echinoco...
Parasitic infections involving the pancreas are medically real but extremely uncommon; most evidence shows are more prevalent among people with diabetes, while true pancreatic infestations—by agents s...
Parasites that invade the human brain range from single‑celled protozoa to multicellular worms and, depending on the organism and host status, can cause anything from mild, self‑limited inflammation t...
Observational and experimental research suggests a plausible connection: certain parasitic infections—especially helminths—can alter immune responses linked to multiple sclerosis (MS) and have been as...
A small number of clinical case reports document parasites physically invading the pancreas and producing pancreatitis with subsequent insulin deficiency or new-onset diabetes — most notably and isola...
Toxoplasma gondii and brain-invasive helminths such as Taenia solium (neurocysticercosis) are the parasites most consistently linked in the literature to cognitive decline or dementia-like syndromes i...
Parasitic infections such as Toxoplasma gondii and Taenia solium (neurocysticercosis) can produce cognitive impairment that mimics or, according to some studies, may contribute to dementia syndromes, ...
There is no credible evidence that a is the cause of the global Type 2 diabetes (T2D) epidemic; the best-supported findings are associations between certain and diabetes prevalence, isolated case repo...
(worm) infections are repeatedly associated with improved insulin sensitivity and reduced metabolic inflammation in animal models and some human epidemiology, mediated largely by type-2 immune shifts,...
Toxoplasma gondii is a neurotropic parasite that establishes long-term, often latent, infections in the brain and has been repeatedly implicated in altered cognition; animal experiments show clear eff...