ossiuriasi
Sign in to saveAlso known as Oxyuris vermicularis infection (disorder), Threadworm infection, Pinworm infection, Enterobius vermicularis infection, oxyuriasis pidulle, Oxyuris vermicularis infection
parassitosi intestinale
Key facts
- Other names
- Enterobiasis, oxyuriasis ( Oxyuridae )
- Specialty
- Pediatrics , Infectious disease
- Symptoms
- Itchy anal area
- Usual onset
- 4 to 8 weeks from exposure
- Causes
- Pinworms ( Enterobius vermicularis )
- Risk factors
- Attending school and nursery, children
- Diagnostic method
- Seeing the worms or eggs
- Prevention
- Handwashing , daily bathing in the morning, daily changing of underwear
- Medication
- Mebendazole , Flubendazole , pyrantel pamoate , or albendazole
- Prognosis
- Non-serious
- Frequency
- Common
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
1,144 papers- Chemotherapy of enterobiasis (oxyuriasis).Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy · 2001
- Pinworm (Enterobius Vermicularis) Infestation: An Updated Review.Current pediatric reviews · 2025
- [Analysis of enterobiasis in the Czech Republic in 2018-2022].Epidemiologie, mikrobiologie, imunologie : casopis Spolecnosti pro epidemiologii a mikrobiologii Ceske lekarske spolecnosti J.E. Purkyne · 2024
- [Pinworm infection (enterobiasis)].Ryoikibetsu shokogun shirizu · 1999
- The Diagnosis and Treatment of Pinworm Infection.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2019
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Appendix with enterobious in lumen.jpg
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- health specialty
- infectious diseases
- ICPC 2 ID
- D96
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:7457
- symptoms and signs
- asthenia
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C128396
- ICD-9-CM
- 127.4
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- mebendazole
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- has cause
- Enterobius vermicularis
- different from
- Helictotrichon
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Italiano
L'ossiuriasi (conosciuta anche come enterobiasi) è una parassitosi intestinale cosmopolita che colpisce soprattutto i bambini. Frequentemente compare una sintomatologia abbastanza caratteristica: prurito anale, sintomi intestinali e, talvolta disturbi "nervosi".
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA