Ascariasis occurs when a type of roundworm known as Ascaris lumbricoides infects the small intestine. Symptoms include abdominal pain, vomiting, and loss of appetite. Though common across the ...

Intestinal obstruction is a rare manifestation of ... leading to chronic blood loss and reduced iron levels. To remove the ascaris lumbricoides, medics made a small cut in his intestine, about ...

A 3-year-old boy from Indonesia had to undergo emergency intestinal surgery after vomiting live worms — the shocking result of a heavy infestation of Ascaris lumbricoides, a parasitic roundworm ...

Doctors wrote in the Journal of Medical Case Reports that an X-ray showed grey masses inside the boy's stomach, which indicated "intestinal ... confirmed to be Ascaris lumbricoides, a type of ...

Approximately one billion people worldwide are estimated to be infected with the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, an intestinal parasite of humans. Some of them, especially children who carry high ...

said that the worms appear to be Ascaris lumbricoides, a type of intestinal parasite. This parasite is "one of the most common agents of human disease in the world," said Hotez, who was not ...

They found that his stool contained eggs from the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, a type of intestinal parasite. People become infected with the worm when they ingest eggs from the parasite ...

The patient was also diagnosed with malnutrition, likely caused by the worms feeding off the nutrients in his small bowel. Surgeons manually removed the tangle of Ascaris lumbricoides, or giant ...

Ascaris lumbricoides, an intestinal roundworm, is one of the most common helminthic human infections worldwide A large-scale de-worming treatment programme is needed to rid some 1.5 billion people ...

Soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) are caused by four species of parasitic worms (Ascaris lumbricoides ... that has been added to the list of intestinal parasites requiring control measures.