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| ref name="Ferri's Clinical Advisor">{{cite book |last=Ferri |first=Fred |title=Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2017 |publisher=Elsevier |date=2017 |pages=117-117 |chapter=Chapter:Ascariasis |isbn=978-0-3232-8048-8}}</ref>
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| ref name="Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics">{{cite book |last1=Kliegman |first1=Robert |last2=Stanton |first2=Bonita |last3=St. Geme |first3=Joseph |last4=Schor |first4=Nina |title=Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics Twentieth Edition |publisher=Elsevier |date=2016 |pages=1733-1734 |chapter=Chapter 291:Ascariasis (Ascaris lumbricoides) |isbn=978-1-4557-7566-8}}</ref>
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| ref name="Principles and Practice">{{cite book |last=Durand |first1=Marlene |title=Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases Updated Edition, Eighth Edition |publisher=Elsevier |date=2015 |pages=3199-3207 |chapter=Chapter 288:Intestinal Nematodes (Roundworms) |isbn=978-1-4557-4801-3}}</ref>
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| ref name="Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine">{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=Kami |last2=Weiss |first2=Louis |last3=Tanowitz |first3=Herbert |title=Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine Sixth Edition |publisher=Elsevier |date=2016 |pages=682-698 |chapter=Chapter 39:Parasitic Infections |isbn=978-1-4557-3383-5}}</ref>
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| ! colspan="6" |Differentiating Ascaris from other Nematodes<ref name="Principles and Practice">Durand, Marlene (2015). "Chapter 288:Intestinal Nematodes (Roundworms)". Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases Updated Edition, Eighth Edition. Elsevier. pp. 3199–3207. ISBN 978-1-4557-4801-3.</ref>
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| |Nematode
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| |Transmission
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| |Direct Person-Person Transmission
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| |Duration of Infection
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| |Location of Adult worm(s)
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| |Treatment
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| |Ascaris lumbricoides
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| |Ingestion of infective ova
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| |No
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| |1-2 years
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| |Free in the lumen of the small bowel
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| (primarily jejunum)
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| * Albendazole
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| * Mebendazole
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| * Pyrantel
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| * Ivermectin
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| * Levamisole
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| * Piperazine
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| |-
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| |Trichuris trichiura
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| (whipworm)
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| |Ingestion of infective ova
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| |No
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| |1-3 years
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| |Anchored in the superficial mucosa of cecum and colon
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| * Albendazole
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| * Mebendazole
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| |Hookworm (Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale)
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| |Skin penetration by filariform larvae
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| |No
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| * 3-5 years (Necator)
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| * 1 year (Ancylostoma)
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| |Attached to the mucosa of mid-upper portion of the small bowel
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| * Albendazole
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| * Mebendazole
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| * Levamisole
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| * Pyrantel
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| |Strongyloides stercoralis
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| |Filariform larvae penetrates skin or bowel mucosa
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| |Yes
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| |Lifetime of the host
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| |Embedded in the mucosa of the duodenum, jejunum
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| * Ivermectin
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| * Albendazole
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| * Thiabendazole
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| |Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)
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| |Ingestion of infective ova
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| |Yes
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| |1 month
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| |Free in the lumen of cecum, appendix, adjacent colon
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| * Albendazole
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| * Mebendazole
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| * Pyrantel
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| * Ivermectin
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| * Levamisole
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| * Piperazine
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