USC researchers have found evidence of threadworm (Strongyloides stercoralis) in South Carolina in two different studies. Their research, which was published in The American Journal of Tropical ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The direction of free-living development (homogonic vs. heterogonic) in Strongyloides stercoralis and Strongyloides planiceps was examined by ...

Referring to nematodes as unusual is almost an understatement, as strange behavior is completely normal for them. Pristionchus pacificus, which lives, among other places, on the Pacific island of La ...

Globally, over 600 million people are infected with the skin-penetrating threadworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions with poor sanitation infrastructure.

Strongyloides stercoralis is an intestinal nematode responsible for strongyloidiasis, a largely neglected tropical disease that affects millions worldwide. Infection typically occurs through skin ...

In the United States, the most well-known skin-penetrating parasitic worm, called a nematode, is the hookworm. But globally, ...

I was peering through back issues of Emerging Infectious Diseases as one typically does (amiright? right?) and found a real gem of a letter. A French physician wrote of a special patient that had ...

Fig. 2: The life cycle of Strongyloides stercoralis. The life cycle is more complex than that of most nematodes, with its alternation between free-living and parasitic cycles and its potential for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Among the progeny of parasitic females of Strongyloides ransomi, males did not appear in significant numbers until the 7th week of infection ...