Tag Jill E. Weatherhead

Intestinal nematode infections are caused by a group of helminths, sometimes referred to as soil-transmitted nematodes, soil-transmitted helminths, or geohelminths. They are among the most common parasitic infections in humans and affect more than one-seventh of the world’s population. In…

Although all infectious agents of humans are parasites, by convention, parasitic diseases are often defined as diseases caused by ectoparasites, parasites that live on the outside or within the skin of the host, and endoparasites, parasites that live on the…