Guides: BIOL 4091: Parasitology: Soil Transmitted Nematodes

NOTE: CDC's DPDx webpage for Laboratory Identification of Parasites of Public Health Concern has been moved to https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/index.html. See the Parasites A-Z Index to locate diagnostics for a parasite.

What Are Nematodes?
This website from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln provides a species list of nematodes, diagnostic keys and worm maps.
Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections - WHO
Fact sheet on nematodes from the World Health Organization.
Helminth Parasites - ASP
The basics about nematodes, cestodes and termatodes from the Australian Society for Parasitology.

Ascaris lumbricoides

CDC Fact Sheet on Ascariasis
The US Center for Disease Control offers complete information about this disease caused by the soil-transmitted helminth: life cycle, epidemiology, disease, treatment, prevention, etc.
Ascariasis - Global Network for NTDs
Ascariasis is considered a Neglected Tropical Disease. Read here about the worm, the disease and the Global Network's work to eradicate the disease.

Enterobius vermicularis

CDC Fact Sheet on Enterobiasis
The US Center for Disease Control offers complete information on this disease caused by the nematode: life cycle, epidemiology, disease, treatment, prevention, etc.
Enterobius vermicularis from ADW
The Animal Diversity Web provides extensive information on the biology, behavior and ecology of parasites.

Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale

CDC Fact Sheet on Hookworm
The US Center for Disease Control offers complete information about this disease caused by the soil-transmitted helminths: life cycle, epidemiology, disease, treatment, prevention, etc.
Hookworm: Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus
An extensive entry on hookworms from the Stanford University course, "Parasites and Pestilence." Includes the discovery of the nematodes and several maps of infected populations.

Strongyloides stercoralis

CDC Fact Sheet on Strongyloides
The US Center for Disease Control offers complete information about this disease caused by the soil-transmitted helminths: life cycle, epidemiology, disease, treatment, prevention, etc.
Strongyloides stercoralis - ADW
The Animal Diversity Web provides extensive information on the biology, behavior and ecology of parasites.

Trichuris trichiura

CDC Fact Sheet on Trichuriasis
Also called whipworm infection. The US Center for Disease Control offers complete information on this soil-transmitted helminth: life cycle, epidemiology, disease, treatment, prevention, etc.
Trichuris trichuria - EOL
The Encyclopedia of Life covers all aspects of the whipworm - behavior, reproduction, ecology, and more.

News about Nematodes

Meet the Parasites That Might Cure Crohn's Disease
A 2016 article from Forbes magazine.
Enterobius vermicularis infestation of the appendix and management at the time of laparoscopic appendicectomy
A 2010 article from the International Journal of Surgery on how to avoid spreading pinworms during an appendectomy. Yuck!
Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark
A 2017 post by Matt Soniak in Mental Floss. The glow came from a symbiosis between nematodes and bacteria.

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BIOL 4091: Parasitology