Essay On Pinworms

The pinworm, also known as the Enterobius vermicularis is a parasitic worm that lives in the human digestive system. The emergence of pinworms occur mostly during back-to-school season. Pinworms, classified taxonomically as a helminth, are one of the most common worm infections in the United States, and holds the broadest geographic range of any helminth infection in the United States and Western Europe. According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, children are the first of targets as they are less prone to washing their hands and touching contaminated surfaces. The parasitism usually begins in a daycare or preschool setting where children unknowingly get infected by not washing their hands and end up putting their hands
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About 10 mm in length, the small, thin and white female Enterobius vermicularis generally reside in the large intestine and cecum, and also found in the colon and rectum of human hosts.
Female pinworms retain a long, pin-shaped posterior end from which the parasite's name originates. When asleep, the female pinworms rove to the cecum of the large intestine and to lay up to 15,000 eggs on the perineum. The inoculation of these eggs spread to the surrounding skin of the anus and this is when the host begins to touch and scratch the infected area. The eggs then attach to their fingertips and soon enough contaminate clothing, bedding, food, and or other articles. The infection is also spread by the fecal-oral route. Children and sometimes adults tend to transfer the pinworm eggs from the anus to the mouth. Usually this is done either directly by hand

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