A parasitic worm infection, also known as a helminth infection, occurs when parasitic worms, or helminths, infect the body.

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Parasite biology is the study of all biological ... of animal-adapted Cryptosporidium hominis subtypes differ from common human subtypes in the copy number of subtelomeric MEDLE genes ...

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