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What are the types of roundworms?
Roundworms are parasites that need to live in the body. These parasitic infections can cause diarrhea and fever. Types of roundworms in humans include pinworms and ascariasis.
How many species of roundworms are there?
Not only are there more than 15,000 known species of roundworms, but there are many thousands of individual nematodes in even a single handful of garden soil. And they keep coming! Some species of roundworm may contain more than 27 million eggs at one time and lay more than 200,000 of them in a single day.
What is the most common roundworm?
Ascaris lumbricoides (also called human roundworm), which is the most common roundworm infection, and affects as many as one billion people worldwide.
What are three roundworms that infect humans?
Ascariasis, hookworm and whipworm are parasitic worms. They're known as soil-transmitted helminths (STH) because the infection spreads through contaminated soil. Ascaris, sometimes abbreviated as A., is the group of worms that cause ascariasis. The worm looks like the common earthworm.
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