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Pinworm Infection Learning Center

Pinworms are small worms that infect the intestines.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 1, 2008
Enterobiasis, or pinworm infection as it is commonly called, is an intestinal infection caused by the parasitic roundworm called Enterobius vermicularis . The most common symptom of this irritating, but not particularly dangerous, disease is itchi...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Threadworm infection is an intestinal disease, which occasionally spreads to the skin, caused by a type of parasitic roundworm (helminth). In untreated patients, the disease has a high rate of reinfection caused by worms already present in the bod...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Pinworms, Enterobius vermicularis , are small, white worms that can live in the intestines, are common in young children, and are easily treated.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
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