helminthiasis in English

noun
1
infestation with parasitic worms.
Action starts now to control disease due to schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis .

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1. Anthelmintics (Concept Id: C0003158) substance that destroys helminth parasitic worms or prevents their growth or replication; used therapeutically in the treatment of helminthiasis.

2. Ankylostomiasis, or Anchylostomiasis (also called helminthiasis, “miners’ anaemia,” and in Germany Wurmkrankheit), a disease to which in recent years much attention has been paid, from its prevalence in the mining industry in England, France, Germany, …

3. The use of untreated human feces in agriculture poses significant health risks and has contributed to widespread infection with parasitic worms—a disease called helminthiasis, affecting over 1.5 billion people in developing countries.

4. Ankylostomiasis, or Anchylostomiasis (also called helminthiasis, "miners' anaemia," and in Germany Wurmkrankheit), a disease to which in recent years* much attention has been paid, from its prevalence in the mining industry in England, France, Germany, Belgium, North Queensland and elsewhere.