Researchers from the University of Toronto have discovered that mice infected with the common gut parasite Tritrichomonas muris are at an increased risk of developing inflammatory colitis. (sciencedaily.com)
This behavior is one of the few clear - cut examples of diet manipulation by parasites and may have implications to human health in that there may be a similar, albeit still undiscovered, manipulative power in human gut parasites, they note. (sciencemag.org)