HubHip: Health: Conditions and Diseases: Infectious Diseases: Parasitic: Nematodes (40)

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

Pinworms (10)

Nematodes

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