ENTEROBIASIS VERMICULARIS AND ITS MAGNITUDE IN EGYPT

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, MISR University for Science and Technology, 6 October City, Giza, Egypt

Abstract

Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm) is one of the most common nematode infections worldwide.
Enterobiasis occurs in both temperate and tropical climates; it is the most common helminthic
infection, and man is the only host particularly school and pre-school aged children of
both sexes. Occasionally a superficial bacterial infection can occur at the scratching sites of intense
perianal pruritus and genitourinary infections like vulvovaginitis, urinary tract infection
in young girls

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Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology
Volume 52, Issue 3
December 2022
Pages 425-430

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