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Classroom classification

百科

Ascariasis

消化内科

Common symptoms

胆道蛔虫症、蛔虫性肠梗阻、腹泻、腹痛、恶心、消化不良、蛔虫感染、脓肿、腹膜炎

The pathology of disease

Ascariasis is infection by Ascaris lumbricoides; most common human helminth; tropical; pulmonary Loeffler; intestinal obstruction; albendazole.

Symptoms

Abdominal pain; malnutrition; pulmonary Loeffler (cough/wheeze); eosinophilia; bowel obstruction; tropical hygiene

Causes

Ascaris lumbricoides; fecal-oral; contaminated food/soil.

Treatment

Albendazole/mebendazole; public health; sanitation; surgery if obstruction

Dept

Infectious disease / tropical medicine / gastroenterology.

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