Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MDIntestinal worms often lead to gastrointestinal symptoms, like diarrhea, because ...

A four year-long research study has found that particles secreted by an intestinal worm may assist in treating ... work well inside animals or humans. "The team in Denmark got promising results ...

Trichuris incognita is a newfound intestinal roundworm ... pigs than those normally found in humans." The parasite's eggs are passed in infected people's feces; the eggs can end up contaminating ...

Professor Roberts, whose work is published in Science, explains: "It is like a three-legged stool - the microbes ... the bacteria and the worms. Intestinal roundworm parasites are one of the most ...

A new tablet being developed to cure intestinal worms has shown promising results in trials and could help eradicate the parasitic infection, which affects about 1.5 billion people globally ...

Soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) are caused by four species of parasitic worms (Ascaris lumbricoides ... that has been added to the list of intestinal parasites requiring control measures.

In the middle of 2020, Alex Loukas deliberately infected himself with intestinal worms. The procedure was pretty straightforward: he used a Band-Aid to press a few larvae of the New World hookworm ...

A University of Washington researcher has found that infestations of two parasitic worms ... in human digestive tracts and lay millions of eggs, which are excreted by the hosts in feces.