Nematodes Parasitic Infectious Diseases

Nematodes Parasitic Infectious Diseases

Parasitic nematodes, also know as roundworms, cause diseases in a variety of organs. Their larva can cause disease by migrating through the body.

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eMedicine - Trichinosis - Article by L Kristian Arnold, MD.
Guinea Worm or Dracunculiasis: WHO - Features disease information and status, control activities, and links.
Hookworm Infection - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
What Is A Hookworm Infection or Ancylostomiasis? - Features images, cause, treatment, symptoms, and prevention.
Ascariasis: Kidshealth - Factsheet with signs and symptoms, treatment, and tips for prevention.
Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura: Bad Bug Book - Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Hookworm - Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
Angiostrongyliasis - CDC DPDx - Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
eMedicine - Strongyloidiasis - Article by Hari Polenakovik, MD.
eMedicine - Hookworms - Article by David R Haburchak, MD.
WHO/OMS: Intestinal Nematodes - Factsheets and publications.
Ascariasis - Disease fact sheet from the World Health Organization, prepared for World Water Day 2001.
Ascaris Infection - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - Includes factsheets on organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Creeping Eruption - Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
Trichinosis - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
eMedicine - Toxocariasis - Article by Sun Huh, MD, PhD.
Toxocariasis Fact Sheet - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - Includes cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.
Baylisascaris Infection Fact Sheet - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - Includes factsheets on the raccoon roundworm and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
eMedicine - Ascariasis - Article by Michael E Greenberg, MD, MPH.
Strongyloidiasis - CDC DPDx - Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
Guinea Worm Disease or Dracunculiasis - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
Baylisascaris procyonis: An Emerging Helminthic Zoonosis - Scientific and medical article on the raccoon roundworm and its effects on people.
Trichuriasis - CDC DPDx - Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
Eustrongylides sp. : Bad Bug Book - Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
eMedicine - Nematode Infections - Article by Murat Hökelek, MD, PhD.
Anisakis simplex and related worms: Bad Bug Book - Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
Trichinella: Food Safety Research Information Office - Directory of factsheets, reports, press releases, and resources on the parasite and its effects.
Toxocariasis: Kidshealth - Toxocara are common parasites of dogs and cats. When they infect humans, the illness is called toxocariasis or visceral larva migrans.
Medmicro: Enteric Nematodes of Humans - Medical and scientific information on the organisms and the diseases they cause.
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Trichinosis - Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
Capillariasis - CDC DPDx - Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
Gnathostomiasis - CDC DPDx - Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment. Human gnathostomiasis is due to migrating immature worms.
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Ascariasis - Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
Anisakiasis - Humans are infected by consuming raw or undercooked fish. Features symptoms, effects on the body, and cause of the disease.
WHO: Water related diseases: Ascariasis - Factsheet with disease information, distribution, scope of the problem, and prevention.
eMedicine - Cutaneous Larva Migrans - Article by Margaret C Douglass, MD.
Anisakiasis - CDC DPDx - nematode Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

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