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    Ascaris is a nematode genus of parasitic worms known as the "small intestinal roundworms", which is a type of parasitic worm. One species, Ascaris lumbricoides...
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    Ascaris lumbricoides is a large parasitic worm that causes ascariasis in humans. A roundworm of genus Ascaris, it is the most common parasitic worm in...
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  • the presence of several parasites in animals and in his patients including Guinea worm, threadworms, tapeworms, and the Ascaris worm. This followed a tradition...
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    Araujo, Adauto (20 February 2012). "Are Ascaris lumbricoides and Ascaris suum a single species?". Parasites & Vectors. 5: 42. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-5-42...
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    Parasitism (redirect from Macro-parasite)
    Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and...
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    a parasitic worm. It is a nematode (roundworm) and a common intestinal parasite or helminth, especially in humans. The medical condition associated with...
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    parasites, infecting all classes of vertebrates. It includes a number of genera, the most well known of which are: Amplicaecum Angusticaecum Ascaris †Ascarites...
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    accumulate in the lung in response to a parasitic infection. The parasite can be Ascaris, Strongyloides stercoralis, or Dirofilaria immitis which can enter...
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  • Depending on the type of parasite, antihelmynthic drugs can be prescribed. [citation needed] The most common parasites involved: Ascaris Schistosoma Toxoplasma...
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  • veterinary important helminth parasites, for example: Ancylostoma caninum Ancylostoma ceylanicum Ancylostoma duodenale Ascaris suum Dicrocoelium dendriticum...
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  • antiparasitic drugs that expel parasitic worms (helminths) and other internal parasites from the body by either stunning or killing them and without causing significant...
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    include Ascaris lumbricoides (Ascaris), Anclostoma duodenale and Necator americanus (hookworm), and Trichuris trichiura (whipworm). Ascaris and whipworm...
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    "Mammalian metallopeptidase inhibition at the defense barrier of Ascaris parasite". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States...
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    Two species were included in the new subgenus, Ascaris (Anisakis) distans Rudolphi, 1809 and Ascaris (Anisakis) simplex Rudolphi, 1809.[citation needed]...
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  • effects on the weight of female Ascaris lumbricoides infections of humans and its impact on patterns of egg production". Parasites & Vectors. 2 (1): 11. doi:10...
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    Trichinella spiralis (category Parasites of rodents)
    Trichinella spiralis is a viviparous nematode parasite, occurring in rodents, pigs, bears, hyenas and humans, and is responsible for the disease trichinosis...
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    Ascaris lumbricoides developing in the egg Ascaris lumbricoides adult worms (with measuring tape for scale) Ascaris lumbricoides adult worms Ascaris egg...
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    of" (see -oid). In 1758, Linnaeus described some nematode genera (e.g., Ascaris), then included in the Vermes. The name of the group Nematoda, informally...
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    intestinal roundworms (Ascaris spp.). The Cosmocercidae include taxa that parasitize certain amphibians. The Toxocaridae include parasites of canids, felids...
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    Ukraine, and Russia (where it is held in Spring). Cross-section of the parasite Ascaris under 200x magnification. Winner of the Microscopy images category...
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    essentially intestinal parasites and their eggs which are liberated along with the faeces of infected persons into the soil. Ascaris and hookworm eggs become...
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    roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides by self-experimentation. He described canine filarial worm Dipetalonema reconditum, and demonstrated the parasite life cycle...
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  • (roundworms) of the genus Ascaris (giant intestinal roundworms). The large roundworm of pigs (Ascaris suum) typically infects pigs while Ascaris lumbricoides affects...
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    anthelmintic properties against the nematode Ascaris suum, a swine parasite that is closely related to the human parasite A. lumbricoides. The half maximal effective...
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  • containing trypsin inhibitors (sweet potatoes), and infection by Ascaris parasites, which secrete a trypsin inhibitor. In New Guinea (origin of the term...
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  • the world human population. Clinically, the life-long presence of the parasite in tissues of a majority of infected individuals is usually considered...
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    otherwise known as pinworms. The Strongyloides stercoralis nematode can parasitize humans. The adult parasitic stage lives in tunnels in the mucosa of the...
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    caused by parasites.[citation needed] Parasites are organisms which derive sustenance from its host while causing it harm. The study of parasites and parasitic...
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    The infection is spread when food or water that contains the eggs of the parasite is ingested or by close contact with an infected animal. The eggs are released...
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    Angiostrongylus cantonensis (category Parasites of rodents)
    Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a nematode (roundworm) parasite that causes angiostrongyliasis, an infection that is the most common cause of eosinophilic...
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