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» Angiostrongyliasis - CDC DPDx
   Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
   http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/angiostrongyliasis.htm

» Anisakiasis
   Humans are infected by consuming raw or undercooked fish. Features symptoms, effects on the body, and cause of the disease.
   http://www.tmd.ac.jp/med/mzoo/vlm/anisakiasis.html

» Ascariasis
   Disease fact sheet from the World Health Organization, prepared for World Water Day 2001.
   http://www.worldwaterday.org/wwday/2001/disease/ascariasis.html

» Ascariasis: Kidshealth
   Factsheet with signs and symptoms, treatment, and tips for prevention.
   http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/infections/parasitic/ascariasis.html

» Ascaris Infection - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases
   Includes factsheets on organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
   http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/ascaris/

» Ascaris lumbricoides
   Includes images, life cycle, and the pathology the nematode causes.
   http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/~schisto/general_parasitology/parasitology_nematode_examples.html

» Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura: Bad Bug Book
   Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
   http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodborneIllness/FoodborneIllnessFoodbornePathogensNaturalToxins/BadBugBook/ucm070828.htm

» Bad Bug Book: Anisakis simplex and Related Worms
   Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
   http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodborneIllness/FoodborneIllnessFoodbornePathogensNaturalToxins/BadBugBook/ucm070768.htm

» Baylisascaris Infection Fact Sheet - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases
   Includes factsheets on the raccoon roundworm and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
   http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/baylisascaris/factsht_baylisascaris.htm

» Baylisascaris procyonis: An Emerging Helminthic Zoonosis
   Scientific and medical article on the raccoon roundworm and its effects on people.
   http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol8no4/01-0273.htm

» CDC DPDx: Anisakiasis
   Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
   http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Anisakiasis.htm

» Capillariasis - CDC DPDx
   Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
   http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Capillariasis.htm

» DPDx: Filariasis
   Provides information on the different parasitic nematodes that can inhabit the lymphatics and subcutaneous tissues and cause this condition, and the life cycle of each.
   http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Filariasis.htm

» Eustrongylides sp. : Bad Bug Book
   Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, associated foods, target populations, and outbreaks.
   http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodborneIllness/FoodborneIllnessFoodbornePathogensNaturalToxins/BadBugBook/ucm070800.htm

» Filarial Nematodes
   Scientific and medical information on these thread-like parasitic nematodes that are transmitted by arthropod vectors.
   http://www.utmb.edu/gsbs/microbook/ch092.htm

» Gnathostomiasis - CDC DPDx
   Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment. Human gnathostomiasis is due to migrating immature worms.
   http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/gnathostomiasis.htm

» Hookworm Infection - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases
   Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
   http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/hookworm/

» Medical Microbiology: Enteric Nematodes of Humans
   Medical and scientific information on the organisms and the diseases they cause.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=mmed&part=A4737

» MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Ascariasis
   Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000628.htm

» MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Creeping Eruption
   Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001454.htm

» MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Hookworm
   Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000629.htm

» MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Trichinosis
   Features cause, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, complications, and prevention.
   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000631.htm

» Medmicro: Enteric Nematodes of Lower Animals Transmitted to Humans
   Provides information on the more common zoonoses caused by enteric nematodes of lower animals for which humans are not the natural hosts.
   http://www.utmb.edu/gsbs/microbook/ch091.htm

» NHS Choices: Roundworm
   Provides information on these worms that can infest the human digestive tract. Includes details of symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
   http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Roundworm/

» Parasitic Roundworm Diseases
   Factsheets on nematodes that infect people.
   http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/parasiticroundworm/

» Strongyloidiasis - CDC DPDx
   Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
   http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Strongyloidiasis.htm

» Trichinella: Food Safety Research Information Office
   Directory of factsheets, reports, press releases, and resources on the parasite and its effects.
   http://fsrio.nal.usda.gov/document_reslist.php?product_id=152

» Trichinosis - CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases
   Includes factsheets on the organism and the disease it causes, news releases, and reports.
   http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/trichinosis/

» Trichuriasis - CDC DPDx
   Factsheet with causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
   http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Trichuriasis.htm

» TropIKA: Soil Transmitted Helminthiases
   Information on this disease and the gut parasites that cause it, review articles, news items, editorial opinions, research articles and reports.
   http://www.tropika.net/svc/home/soil-transmitted-helminthiases

» WHO/OMS: Intestinal Nematodes
   Factsheets and publications.
   http://www.who.int/topics/intestinal_diseases_parasitic/en/

» WHO: Water Related Diseases: Ascariasis
   Factsheet with disease information, distribution, scope of the problem and prevention.
   http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/ascariasis/en/

» What Is A Hookworm Infection or Ancylostomiasis?
   Features images, cause, treatment, symptoms, and prevention.
   http://www.personalmd.com/news/hookworm_072600.shtml

» eMedicine - Ascariasis
   Article by Michael E Greenberg, MD, MPH.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/996482-overview

» eMedicine - Cutaneous Larva Migrans
   Article by Margaret C Douglass, MD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1108784-overview

» eMedicine - Hookworms
   Article by David R Haburchak, MD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/218805-overview

» eMedicine - Nematode Infections
   Article by Murat Hökelek, MD, PhD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/224011-overview

» eMedicine - Strongyloidiasis
   Article by Hari Polenakovik, MD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/229312-overview

» eMedicine - Trichinosis
   Article by Clinton Murray, MD.
   http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/230490-overview