parasitologists

The resurgence of parasites like Plasmodium has made parasitologists yearn for a vaccine.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Wherever certain species of snails lived, in ditches or ponds or streams, parasitologists came across free-swimming animals that looked like small versions of flukes except that they had great tails attached to their rears.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

They tend not to think like parasitologists, who treat their subjects more as living beings that have to survive in their hosts and get to new ones.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Once parasitologists showed that these manipulations were real, they began to ask how exactly the parasites manage them.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

For once, in one place, parasitologists might be able to know all the parasites.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

More recently, parasitologists have found that ivermectin can work as efficiently against the filiarial worms that cause elephantiasis.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

When parasitologists figure out the full story of parasitic manipulators, it will turn out to be more sophisticated than this.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

It was enormous fun, and what I discovered is that nearly all mummy researchers are gainfully employed with other day jobs, working as pathologists, neurologists, parasitologists, botanists, philosophy instructors, and the like.

The Travels of a Mummy Expert 2009

He can only hope that other parasitologists will join him.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

When parasitologists take a pair of the parasites out of a mouse and put them in a monkey, the flukes are unharmed and soon start churning out their eggs again.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009