Approximately one billion people worldwide are estimated to be infected with the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, an intestinal parasite of humans. Some of them, especially children who carry high ...

The giant roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides infects approximately 0.8 billion people worldwide, leading to chronic morbidity including intestinal problems and poor growth, particularly in children.

IT has long been a matter of uncertainty whether the ascaris parasite of the domestic pig is specifically identical with Ascaris lumbricoides L. 1758 from the intestine of man. The evidence, as ...