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helminth

In medicine, collective name used to describe parasitic worms. There are several classes of helminth that can cause infections in humans, including ascarids (ascariasis), tapeworms, and threadworms.
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His research interests focus on the epidemiology and pathogenesis of helminthic diseases.
Diphyllobothriasis associated with eating raw Pacific salmon by Arizono, Naoki; Yamada, Minoru; Nakamura-Uchiyama, Fukumi; Ohnishi, Kenji / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Eosinophilia encompasses a wide range of differential diagnoses, including a wealth of non-infectious conditions such as adverse drug effects, allergies, rheumatological disorders (which lead the list of differential diagnoses in affluent, temperate regions of the world that are seemingly largely devoid of helminths), and helminthic infections, particularly with tissue-dwelling parasites.
Parasitic infections often present with nonspecific symptoms by Grobusch, Martin P.; Menezes, Colin N. / CME: Your SA Journal of CPD
Among other helminthic infections, the most popular ones are ancylostomiasis, strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis and taeniasis.
Health hazards in Central Asia on Afghanistan example by Korzeniewski, Krzysztof / International Journal of Health Science
 
 
 
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