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infection of humans worldwide. Infestation can cause morbidity by compromising nutritional status, affecting cognitive processes, inducing tissue reactions such as granuloma to larval stages, and by causing
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infection and polyparasitism associated with poor cognitive performance in
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The body is long, cylindrical, and fusiform (pointed at both the ends). The body wall is composed of
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worms known as the "small intestinal roundworms", which is a type of parasitic worm. One species,
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424:Johann August Ephraim Goeze
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520:List of parasites (human)
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412:Ascaris lumbricoides
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172:Ascaris lumbricoides
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406:in 1683. The genus
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219:nematode
163:Species
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