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Humans are infected by consuming raw or undercooked fish. Features symptoms, effects on the body, and cause of the disease.
http://www.tmd.ac.jp/med/mzoo/vlm/anisakiasis.html
Includes images, life cycle, and the pathology the nematode causes.
http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/~schisto/Nematodes/Ascaris.html
Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap25.html
Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap30.html
Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap28.html
Includes factsheets on the raccoon roundworm and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/baylisacaris/default.htm
Includes cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/pa...es/toxocara/factsht_toxocara.htm
Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/trichinosis/
Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/angiostrongyliasis.htm
nematode Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Anisakiasis.htm
Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Capillariasis.htm
Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment. Human gnathostomiasis is due to migrating immature worms.
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/gnathostomiasis.htm
Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/hookworm/
Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/guineaworm/
Includes factsheets on organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/ascaris/
Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Strongyloidiasis.htm
Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Trichuriasis.htm
Disease fact sheet from the World Health Organization, prepared for World Water Day 2001.
http://www.worldwaterday.org/2001/disease/ascariasis.html
Features disease information and status, control activities, and links.
http://www.who.int/ctd/dracun/index.html
Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000628.htm
Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000629.htm
Medical and scientific information on the organisms and the diseases they cause.
http://gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch090.htm
Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000631.htm
Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001454.htm
Article by Michael E Greenberg, MD, MPH.
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic145.htm
Article by David R Haburchak, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1028.htm
Article by Margaret C Douglass, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic91.htm
Article by Murat Hökelek, MD, PhD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1594.htm
Article by Hari Polenakovik, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2189.htm
Article by Sun Huh, MD, PhD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2293.htm
Article by Clinton Murray, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2306.htm
Article by L Kristian Arnold, MD.
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic612.htm
Directory of factsheets, reports, press releases, and resources on the parasite and its effects.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fsrio/topics/tptrichinella.htm
Factsheet with cause, geographic distribution, at risk poulation, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.
http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/guinea.html
Includes life cycle, images, and pathology.
http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/hookworms.html
Factsheet with signs and symptoms, treatment, and tips for prevention.
http://www.kidshealth.org/parent...ctions/parasitic/ascariasis.html
Toxocara are common parasites of dogs and cats. When they infect humans, the illness is called toxocariasis or visceral larva migrans.
http://www.kidshealth.org/parent...ions/parasitic/toxocariasis.html
Factsheets on nematodes that infect people.
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/roundwor.htm
Includes history, cause, images, symptoms, treatment, and prevention.
http://www.studentbmj.com/back_issues/0803/education/280.html
Features images, cause, treatment, symptoms, and prevention.
http://www.personalmd.com/news/hookworm_072600.shtml
Factsheet with disease information, distribution, scope of the problem, and prevention.
http://www.who.int/water_sanitat...n_health/diseases/ascariasis/en/
Scientific and medical article on the raccoon roundworm and its effects on people.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol8no4/01-0273.htm
Factsheets and publications.
http://www.who.int/topics/intestinal_diseases_parasitic/en/