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Trichuris trichiura (Linnaeus 1771)

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Parasitic Diseases

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Trichuris trichiura, popularly known as whipworm because of its characteristic shape, is distributed throughout the world in the same areas where Ascaris and hookworm are found. It is estimated that there are at presentsome 800 million infections.

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  1. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Dickson D. Despommier Ph.D. (Professor of Public Health (Parasitology) and Microbiology)

  2. Laboratory of Malaria Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA

    Robert W. Gwadz Ph.D. (Captain, US Public Health Service, Assistant Chief)

  3. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA

    Peter J. Hotez M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases), Epidemiology, and Public Health)

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Despommier, D.D., Gwadz, R.W., Hotez, P.J. (1995). Trichuris trichiura (Linnaeus 1771). In: Parasitic Diseases. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2476-1_2

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