The sites of physical migration of adult Ascaris include a biliary duct, liver parenchyma, pancreas, peritoneum, thoracic cavity, lacrimal duct, Eustachian tube, fallopian tube, brain, and even a pulmonary artery.1 Areas that are not organically part of the Ascaris migration pattern are accessed through fistulization from sites that are normally infested with Ascaris. Only a limited number of r...

BACKGROUND The parasitic nematodes Ascaris lumbricoides and A. suum are of great public health and economic significance, and the two taxa were proposed to represent a single species. miRNAs are known with functions of gene regulations at post-transcriptional level. RESULTS We herein compared the miRNA profiles of A. lumbricoides and A. suum female adults by Solexa deep sequencing combined wi...

Ascaris lumbricoides, the large human roundworm, infects approximately 1,200 million people, with children under the age of 15 being particularly at risk. Monte Carlo quantitative microbial risk analyses were undertaken to estimate median Ascaris infection risks in children under 15 from eating raw carrots irrigated with wastewater. For a tolerable additional disease burden of 10(-5) DALY (disa...

Reuse of sewage biosolids in Victoria, Australia, typically involves mesophilic anaerobic digestion followed by air-drying and long-term storage to ensure removal of ova of soil-transmitted helminths (STH) such as Ascaris lumbricoides. Long-term storage degrades the biosolids' agronomic quality due to the loss of key plant nutrients and takes up large areas of storage space. The impact of varyi...

Ascaris lumbricoides infestation is endemic in tropical countries. Most infections by A. lumbricoides are asymptomatic, but they can produce a wide spectrum of manifestations including hepatobiliary and pancreatic complications. Pancreatic ascariasis is a rare entity. In a study of 500 patients with hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease due to A. lumbricoides infection, only seven had pancreatic...

BACKGROUND Intestinal helminthiasis is common in our environment and antihelminthic drugs are specie specific. Thus, need to identify and characterize the species cannot be overemphasized. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of Ascaris Lumbricoides in Enugu Metropolis. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 361 subjects in Enugu metropolis was carried out in this study. A single stool sample...