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Ascaris is a nematode genus of parasitic worms known as the "small intestinal roundworms". [1] One species, Ascaris lumbricoides, affects humans and causes the disease ascariasis.
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Ascaris lumbricoides is a large parasitic roundworm of the genus Ascaris. It is the most common parasitic worm in humans. [1] An estimated 807 million–1.2 billion people are infected with Ascaris lumbricoides worldwide. [2] People living in tropical and subtropical countries are at greater risk of infection.
Ascariasis; High number of ascaris worms – visible as black tangled mass – are filling the duodenum, the first portion of the bowel after the stomach, of this South African patient (X-ray image with barium as contrast medium).
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The pinworm (species Enterobius vermicularis), also known as threadworm (in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand) or seatworm, is a parasitic worm.It is a nematode (roundworm) and a common intestinal parasite or helminth, especially in humans. [7]
The Oxyurida and Rhigonematida are occasionally placed in the Ascaridina as superfamily Oxyuroidea, but while they seem indeed to be Spiruria, they are not as close to Ascaris as such a treatment would place them. [1] These "worms" contain a number of important parasites of humans and domestic animals, namely in the superfamily Ascaridoidea.
The Acoela and Nemertodermatida were traditionally regarded as turbellarians, [13] [19] but are now regarded as members of a separate phylum, the Acoelomorpha, [20] [21] or as two separate phyla. [22] Xenoturbella, a genus of very simple animals, [23] has also been reclassified as a separate phylum. [24]