0 any of various types of creature with a round body that can live in the bowels of people and some animals, and often cause disease
Fecal contaminated water carries infectious diseases like cholera and typhoid and is implicated in many cases of diarrheal disease, roundworm infection, and schistosomiasis.
Watkins et al. (1996 b) found no effect of treatment of children with moderate to heavy levels of roundworm on either reading or vocabulary score or on school attendance.
One such roundworm called toxocara carnis can result in the loss of eyesight in children and cause serious diseases of the liver and lungs.
Toxicara canis is a common roundworm of dogs: eggs which are passed in faeces can give rise to an infection in men, toxocariasis.
Dogs are also susceptible to parasites such as fleas, ticks, and mites, as well as hookworm, tapeworm, roundworm, and heartworm.
This parasitic roundworm has worldwide distribution and numerous hosts.
Puds are very susceptible to diseases like bladder worms, lungworms, roundworms, and heartworms.
The foregoing strategies are used, variously, by larval stages of tapeworms, thorny-headed worms, flukes and parasitic roundworms.
