About Ascariasis | Soil-Transmitted Helminths | CDC
2024年6月13日 · People who do have symptoms can experience abdominal discomfort or pain. Heavy infections (caused by a high number of worms) are more common in children, can block the intestines, and can slow growth in children. Other symptoms such as cough are due to migration of the worms through the body.
CDC - DPDx - Ascariasis - Centers for Disease Control and …
Fertilized and unfertilized Ascaris lumbricoides eggs are passed in the stool of the infected host. Fertilized eggs are are rounded and have a thick shell with an external mammillated layer that is often stained brown by bile. In some cases, the outer layer …
About Soil-transmitted helminths - CDC
2024年6月13日 · Diagnosis. Your healthcare provider can take a stool (poop) sample and examine it for a soil-transmitted helminth infection under a microscope.
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Welcome to DPDx, a website developed and maintained by CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria (DPDM). DPDx uses the Internet to strengthen diagnosis of parasitic diseases, both in the United States and abroad.
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About Toxocariasis | Toxocariasis | CDC
2024年9月10日 · Many people who are infected don't have any symptoms. But in some people, toxocariasis causes fevers, coughing, or abdominal pain and may damage the eyes. Most cases of toxocariasis can be treated with drugs.
Intestinal Parasites | Immigrant and Refugee Health | CDC
The most common signs and symptoms include those associated with anemia (e.g., weakness, pallor), as well as abdominal pain, diarrhea, and eosinophilia. Chronic infection with Ascaris, Trichuris, or hookworm is associated with poor growth in children.
CDC - DPDx - Enterobiasis
Occasionally, invasion of the female genital tract with vulvovaginitis and pelvic or peritoneal granulomas can occur. Other symptoms include, teeth grinding, enuresia, insomnia, anorexia, irritability, and abdominal pain, which can mimic appendicitis.
CDC - DPDx - Toxocariasis
In VLM, which occurs mostly in preschool children, the larvae invade multiple tissues (commonly liver, lung, skeletal muscle, occasionally heart) and cause various nonspecific symptoms (e.g. fever, myalgia, weight loss, cough, rashes, hepatosplenomegaly) usually accompanied by hypereosinophilia.
CDC - DPDx - Strongyloidiasis - Centers for Disease Control and …
A variety of systemic, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, and neurologic signs/symptoms have been documented; complications can be severe. Left untreated, the mortality rates of hyperinfection syndrome and disseminated strongyloidiasis can approach 90%.