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Bookmark or Share- Roundworms: Parasitic Infection, Pinworm Symptoms, TreatmentRoundworms are parasites — organisms that need to live on or in another creature to survive. Often, the parasite causes problems for its host (creature it depends on). For roundworms, they need the body of humans or other animals to mature into egg-laying adults. How common are roundworms?
- CDC - Roundworms & HookwormsRoundworm infections usually happen when soil, sand, or plants that have been contaminated with infected animal feces are accidentally put in the mouth and ingested. Hookworm infections happen when larvae penetrate the skin.
- Roundworms: Symptoms and Treatment - PatientRoundworms (also called nematodes) are worms with a long round body. They vary in length from several millimetres to up to two metres. Roundworms are common in warm tropical countries and most infections seen in the UK will have been acquired abroad. Children are more often affected than adults.
- About Ascariasis | Soil-Transmitted Helminths | CDCAscaris infection is sometimes called ascariasis. The human roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, sometimes just called Ascaris or ascariasis, is a parasitic worm that infects an estimated 772–892 million people globally. Ascaris, along with whipworm and hookworm, is a soil-transmitted helminth (STH).
- Ascariasis - Symptoms & causes - Mayo ClinicAscariasis (as-kuh-RIE-uh-sis) is a type of roundworm infection. These worms are parasites that use your body as a host to mature from larvae or eggs to adult worms. Adult worms, which reproduce, can be more than a foot (30 centimeters) long.
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