Nuns at an Italian convent were forced to write their vows in their own blood, self-flagellate every night, and eat spoiled food, a former member of the order is claiming. “We pierced our skin with ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater collected near Hachijojima Island. The newly discovered species, named Viscidocauda repens, belongs to the ...

This patient exhibits a pruritic, erythematous flagellate eruption. Flagellate refers to the linear or curved whip-like appearance of the rash. As can be seen particularly in Figure 1, the curved ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater collected near Hachijojima Island. The newly discovered species, named ...

If you’re waking up with unexplained scratches or scratch-like marks on your body, there could be a number of possible causes. The most likely reason for the appearance of scratches is that you’re ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 159, No. 977 (Mar. 17, 1964), pp. 668-686 (33 pages) Mixotricha is a large polymastigote flagellate from the gut of the ...

COVID-19 restrictions in the past years have prevented crowds and devotees from participating in the ritual, a practice discouraged by the Catholic Church in the Philippines.

Abstract A 39-year-old woman with a long-standing vascular malformation of the posterior tongue underwent intralesional sclerotherapy with a single dose of bleomycin. Within 1 week after treatment, ...

A 48-year-old white man presented with a 4-week history of itchy lesions on the skin of his upper back and shoulders. The patient’s medical history included ulcerative colitis and a seizure disorder.

The Journal of Parasitology is the official publication of the American Society of Parasitologists (ASP). It has been in print continuously since 1914, when it was founded by Henry Baldwin Ward. The ...