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

Intestinal worms (or helminths) are multicellular parasites that live inside the gut. When mature, they can generally be seen with the naked eye. In developing countries with poor sanitation, the most ...

Threadworm is a very common infection that occurs when tiny, thread-like worms infest the human intestine. The worms, which are between 2 and 13 millimeters (mm) long and resemble a piece of white ...

Care’s Expert Pharmacist, Karen Baker said the most common infections that increase when children go back to school are threadworms and chickenpox. These viruses "easily spread between children in ...

To treat threadworms successfully, all individuals from the same household as the infected individual should be treated. Since threadworm eggs are easily transmitted via shared clothing, towels, bed ...

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 ...

Christmas. A time for giving and receiving. This year, I would like to thank Santa for the gift of threadworms. My kids asked for a hamster but worms were an interesting alternative. To be honest, ...

The comedian Shappi Khorsandi once commented that she used the mythical concept of “sugar worms” to get her children to brush their teeth after sweets. It’s a trick I poached to convince my daughter ...