Image-based artificial intelligence spots parasitic worm infections in children's stool samples. Credit: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2024). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012041, CC-BY 4.0 ...

A DEADLY parasite carried by foxes that can hide in your body for up to 15 years silently destroying organs is on the rise ...

One specimen, a thick-shelled oval, is the egg of a parasitic nematode worm. The other five are unidentified worm eggs or protozoan cysts. Past studies , the paper notes, have only found instances ...

Importantly, the AI also proved capable of identifying infections even with relatively few parasitic worm eggs. In fact, it spotted 79 cases that the human expert had missed.

At night, female worms come outside to lay eggs in the skin around your anus. If you scratch the area, the eggs get on your fingers or under your nails, and then spread to the next thing you touch.

Intestinal worms are organisms that feed off the human body. Tapeworm, hookworm, pinworm, and other types of worms affect the body in different ways. A person may notice worms in stool. Types of ...

Worms are transmitted via the fecal-oral route, meaning that microscopic parasite eggs in soil can spread to drinking water or food, after which they are ingested through the mouth of a new host.

A 200-million-year-old piece of fossilized poop has provided some of the earliest evidence yet that modern-day parasites plagued the age of the dinosaurs. ... Several more of the round shapes appeared ...

In fact, most kids in Australia (or any other rich country) get very few worms compared to kids in places where poor hygiene practices make all sorts of worms common.