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http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/angiostrongyliasis.htm

Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

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.

Anisakiasis - CDC DPDx

http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Anisakiasis.htm

nematode Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

Anisakis simplex and related worms: Bad Bug Book

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap25.html

Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.

Ascariasis

http://www.worldwaterday.org/2001/disease/ascariasis.html

Disease fact sheet from the World Health Organization, prepared for World Water Day 2001.

Ascariasis: Kidshealth

http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/infections/parasitic/ascariasis.html

Factsheet with signs and symptoms, treatment, and tips for prevention.

Ascariasis: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000628.htm

Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.

Ascaris Infection - CDC Division of Parasitic Dise

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/ascaris/

Includes factsheets on organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.

Ascaris lumbricoides

http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/~schisto/Nematodes/Ascaris.html

Includes images, life cycle, and the pathology the nematode causes.

Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura: Bad

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap30.html

Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.

Baylisascaris Infection Fact Sheet - CDC Division

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/baylisacaris/default.htm

Includes factsheets on the raccoon roundworm and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.

Baylisascaris procyonis: An Emerging Helminthic Zo

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol8no4/01-0273.htm

Scientific and medical article on the raccoon roundworm and its effects on people.

Capillariasis - CDC DPDx

http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Capillariasis.htm

Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

Creeping Eruption: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedi

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001454.htm

Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.

eMedicine - Ascariasis

http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic145.htm

Article by Michael E Greenberg, MD, MPH.

eMedicine - Cutaneous Larva Migrans

http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic91.htm

Article by Margaret C Douglass, MD.

eMedicine - Hookworms

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1028.htm

Article by David R Haburchak, MD.

eMedicine - Nematode Infections

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1594.htm

Article by Murat Hökelek, MD, PhD.

eMedicine - Strongyloidiasis

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2189.htm

Article by Hari Polenakovik, MD.

eMedicine - Toxocariasis

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2293.htm

Article by Sun Huh, MD, PhD.

eMedicine - Trichinosis

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2306.htm

Article by Clinton Murray, MD.

eMedicine - Trichinosis

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic612.htm

Article by L Kristian Arnold, MD.

Eustrongylides sp. : Bad Bug Book

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap28.html

Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.

Gnathostomiasis - CDC DPDx

http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/gnathostomiasis.htm

Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment. Human gnathostomiasis is due to migrating immature worms.

Guinea Worm Disease Facts

http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/guinea.html

Factsheet with cause, geographic distribution, at risk poulation, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.

Guinea Worm Disease or Dracunculiasis - CDC Divisi

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/guineaworm/

Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.

Guinea Worm or Dracunculiasis: WHO

http://www.who.int/ctd/dracun/index.html

Features disease information and status, control activities, and links.

Hookworm : MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000629.htm

Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.

Hookworm Infection - CDC Division of Parasitic Dis

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/hookworm/

Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.

Hookworms - Ancylostoma sp. and Necator sp.

http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/hookworms.html

Includes life cycle, images, and pathology.

Medmicro: Enteric Nematodes of Humans

http://gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch090.htm

Medical and scientific information on the organisms and the diseases they cause.

Parasitic Roundworm Diseases

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/roundwor.htm

Factsheets on nematodes that infect people.

Strongyloidiasis

http://www.studentbmj.com/back_issues/0803/education/280.html

Includes history, cause, images, symptoms, treatment, and prevention.

Strongyloidiasis - CDC DPDx

http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Strongyloidiasis.htm

Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

Toxocariasis Fact Sheet - CDC Division of Parasiti

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/toxocara/factsht_toxocara.htm

Includes cause, symptoms, prevention, and treatment.

Toxocariasis: Kidshealth

http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/infections/parasitic/toxocariasis.html

Toxocara are common parasites of dogs and cats. When they infect humans, the illness is called toxocariasis or visceral larva migrans.

Trichinella: Food Safety Research Information Offi

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fsrio/topics/tptrichinella.htm

Directory of factsheets, reports, press releases, and resources on the parasite and its effects.

Trichinosis - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/trichinosis/

Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.

Trichinosis: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000631.htm

Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.

Trichuriasis - CDC DPDx

http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Trichuriasis.htm

Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.

What Is A Hookworm Infection or Ancylostomiasis?

http://www.personalmd.com/news/hookworm_072600.shtml

Features images, cause, treatment, symptoms, and prevention.

WHO/OMS: Intestinal Nematodes

http://www.who.int/topics/intestinal_diseases_parasitic/en/

Factsheets and publications.

WHO: Water related diseases: Ascariasis

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/ascariasis/en/

Factsheet with disease information, distribution, scope of the problem, and prevention.