Globally, over 600 million people are infected with the skin-penetrating threadworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions with poor sanitation infrastructure.
Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil-transmitted threadworm that is endemic in many tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have ...
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Widespread presence of threadworm suggests other forgotten diseases may be making a comeback
USC researchers have found evidence of threadworm (Strongyloides stercoralis) in South Carolina in two different studies. Their research, which was published in The American Journal of Tropical ...
Threadworms are very common. Nearly half of all children under the age of ten and many adults have threadworms at some time often without realising as the infection usually causes no symptoms ...
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