Enterobius vermicularis, commonly known as the pinworm, is a helminth infection that predominantly affects children worldwide. The parasite is highly contagious and is most frequently transmitted in ...

Pinworm infection remains prévalent in children in many parts of the world. This study was designed to determine the prevalence of this infection in schoolchildren in Taiwan after the termination of ...

A 9-year-old Canadian boy presented to the emergency department with a 4-day history of sudden, unremitting pain in the right iliac fossa. His medical history was otherwise unremarkable, and he had ...

A 1-year-old boy is brought to your urgent care clinic after his mother found a white object similar to a grain of rice in his stool during a diaper change. She was alarmed when she saw this object ...

A 32-year-old woman presented with anal pruritus and bleeding. Colonoscopy revealed infection with Enterobius vermicularis (shown in a video).

During a medical procedure to remove a 16-year-old girl's appendix, doctors discovered that she was suffering from an infestation of pinworms. Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm) causes significant ...

The Journal of Parasitology is the official publication of the American Society of Parasitologists (ASP). It has been in print continuously since 1914, when it was founded by Henry Baldwin Ward. The ...

Multiple live Enterobius vermicularis are seen crawling from the inferior tip of the resected appendix within the peritoneal cavity of a 9-year-old boy with acute appendicitis.