parasitic worms
Gut-dwelling invaders
Parasitic worms are worms that live in or on a host organism, deriving nutrients at the host's expense.
The major groups include roundworms, tapeworms, and flukes, which can infect humans, livestock, and wildlife.
Many cause serious diseases: hookworms feed on blood, tapeworms absorb nutrients from the gut, schistosomes damage organs.
The clinic treats children for parasitic worms.
Medical and veterinary contexts often use the term helminths.
- nematodeThreadlike parasitic worm
- helminthsEndoparasitic worm organisms
- parasitic infectionIllness from living invaders
- hookwormIntestinal blood-feeding nematode
- flukeChance stroke of luck
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- infectious diseasescholera, anthrax, malaria, measles, flu
- wormsearthworm, earthworms, nightcrawler, roundworms, flatworms
- fish diseasesfin rot, ick, dropsy, velvet, white spot
- Livestock Diseasesbloat, hoof and mouth, anthrax, ketosis, brucellosis
- plant diseasesblight, wilt, rot, canker, root rot
- reptile diseasesrespiratory infection, stomatitis, thermal burns, impaction, gout