Directory of Nematodes Resources

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

Subcategories

• Dracunculiasis
• Pinworms
• Toxocariasis
• Trichinosis

Resources in This Category

• Acanthocheilonemiasis

  http://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/acanthocheilonemiasis/
  NORD fact sheet about this rare tropical infectious disease offers alternative names, a general discussion, and resources.

• Angiostrongyliasis - CDC DPDx

  http://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/angiostrongyliasis/index.html
  Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

• Anisakiasis

  http://www.tmd.ac.jp/med/mzoo/vlm/anisakiasis.html
  Humans are infected by consuming raw or undercooked fish. Features symptoms, effects on the body, and cause of the disease.

• Ascariasis: Kidshealth

  http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/ascariasis.html
  Factsheet with signs and symptoms, treatment, and tips for prevention.

• Ascaris Infection - CDC

  http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/ascariasis/
  Includes factsheets on organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.

• Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura: Bad Bug Book

  http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/CausesOfIllnessBadBugBook/ucm070828.htm
  Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.

• Bad Bug Book: Anisakis simplex and Related Worms

  http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/CausesOfIllnessBadBugBook/ucm070768.htm
  Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.

• Baylisascaris Infection Fact Sheet - CDC

  http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/baylisascaris/
  Includes factsheets on the raccoon roundworm and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.

• Baylisascaris procyonis: An Emerging Helminthic Zoonosis

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730233/
  Scientific and medical article on the raccoon roundworm and its effects on people.

• Capillariasis - CDC DPDx

  http://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/intestinalCapillariasis/index.html
  Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

• CDC DPDx: Anisakiasis

  http://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/anisakiasis/index.html
  Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

• DPDx: Lymphatic Filariasis

  http://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/lymphaticFilariasis/index.html
  Provides information on the different parasitic nematodes that can inhabit the lymphatics and subcutaneous tissues and cause this condition, and the life cycle of each.

• eMedicine - Ascariasis

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/996482-overview
  Article by Michael E Greenberg, MD, MPH.

• eMedicine - Cutaneous Larva Migrans

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1108784-overview
  Article by Margaret C Douglass, MD.

• eMedicine - Hookworms

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/218805-overview
  Article by David R Haburchak, MD.

• eMedicine - Nematode Infections

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/224011-overview
  Article by Murat Hökelek, MD, PhD.

• eMedicine - Strongyloidiasis

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/229312-overview
  Article by Hari Polenakovik, MD.

• Eustrongylides sp. : Bad Bug Book

  http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/CausesOfIllnessBadBugBook/ucm070800.htm
  Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.

• Filarial Nematodes

  http://www.pathobio.sdu.edu.cn/sdjsc/engparabook/ch092.htm
  Scientific and medical information on these thread-like parasitic nematodes that are transmitted by arthropod vectors.

• Gnathostomiasis - CDC DPDx

  http://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/gnathostomiasis/index.html
  Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment. Human gnathostomiasis is due to migrating immature worms.

• Hookworm Infection - CDC

  http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/hookworm/
  Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.

• Medical Microbiology: Enteric Nematodes of Humans

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8261/
  Medical and scientific information on the organisms and the diseases they cause.

• MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Ascariasis

  https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000628.htm
  Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.

• MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Creeping Eruption

  https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001454.htm
  Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.

• MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Hookworm

  https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000629.htm
  Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.

• Medmicro: Enteric Nematodes of Lower Animals Transmitted to Humans

  http://www.pathobio.sdu.edu.cn/sdjsc/engparabook/ch091.htm
  Provides information on the more common zoonoses caused by enteric nematodes of lower animals for which humans are not the natural hosts.

• NHS Choices: Roundworm

  http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Roundworm/
  Provides information on these worms that can infest the human digestive tract. Includes details of symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

• Strongyloidiasis - CDC DPDx

  http://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/strongyloidiasis/index.html
  Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

• Trichuriasis - CDC DPDx

  http://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/trichuriasis/index.html
  Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

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