Enterobius vermicularis, commonly known as the pinworm, is a helminth infection that predominantly affects children worldwide. The parasite is highly contagious and is most frequently transmitted in ...

Pinworm infection remains prévalent in children in many parts of the world. This study was designed to determine the prevalence of this infection in schoolchildren in Taiwan after the termination of ...

A 9-year-old Canadian boy presented to the emergency department with a 4-day history of sudden, unremitting pain in the right iliac fossa. His medical history was otherwise unremarkable, and he had ...

Enterobius vermicularis is an important helminthic infection among children in rural areas of developing countries. Enterobiasis is frequently asymptomatic. The most typical symptom is perianal ...

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A person infected with pinworm is often asymptomatic, but itching around the anal area is a common symptom. Symptoms often attributed to pinworm infection are as follows: Diagnosis of pinworm can be ...

From the Pathology Laboratory, City Hospital, Worcester, Mass.

Plus, all the common mistakes putting you at risk of worms DOCTORS were shocked to discover pinworms living inside a teenager’s appendix. The 15-year-old arrived at A&E doubled over with tummy pain, ...

Multiple live Enterobius vermicularis are seen crawling from the inferior tip of the resected appendix within the peritoneal cavity of a 9-year-old boy with acute appendicitis.

Background: Symptomatic infection with pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis), a human pathogen, is clinically relevant in Germany, with an estimated prevalence in childhood of 2–20%. Enterobiasis can ...

A 55-year-old man presented with intermittent, crampy pain in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen. The pain had started two days after his return from a two-week trip to Hungary. He reported no ...