Scientists identify most proteins made by parasitic worm
Monday, May 23, 2011 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have completed a large-scale analysis of most of the proteins produced by Brugia malayi, one kind of parasitic worm that causes lymphatic filariasis, or elephantiasis. The greatly swollen lower limbs that can result from chronic infection with this mosquito-borne parasite can be severely disabling.