{"id":145,"date":"2009-06-28T17:57:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-06-28T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T22:57:22","slug":"145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parasitic diseases are common in the eastern Kentucky Appalachian region.  This is one of the topics of a report in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosntds.org\/article\/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pntd.0000256\">June 2008 PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/Neglected_diseases_of_poverty_PLoS.jpg\" alt=\"Neglected_diseases_of_poverty_PLoS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The diseases mentioned, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strongyloidiasis\">Strongyloidiasis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ascariasis#Treatment\">Ascariasis<\/a>, are parasitic nematode infections!  <\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0; margin: 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/Strongyloides_stercoralis.jpg\" alt=\"Strongyloides stercoralis\" \/><br \/>Strongyloides stercoralis<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: right; padding: 0; margin: 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/Ascaris_lumbricoides.jpg\" alt=\"Ascaris lumbricoides\" \/><br \/>Ascaris lumbricoides<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; clear: both;\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nHere is a diagram of the Strongyloides lifecycle from the CDC:\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpd.cdc.gov\/DPDx\/HTML\/Frames\/S-Z\/Strongyloidiasis\/body_Strongyloidiasis_page1.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/Strongyloides_LifeCycle.gif\" alt=\"Strongyloides LifeCycle\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the Ascaris lifecycle.  The Ascaris worms are huge, 20-49 cm long!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpd.cdc.gov\/dpdx\/html\/imagelibrary\/A-F\/Ascariasis\/body_Ascariasis_il7.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/Ascariasis_LifeCycle.gif\" alt=\"Ascariasis LifeCycle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parasitic diseases are common in the eastern Kentucky Appalachian region. This is one of the topics of a report in June 2008 PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The diseases mentioned, Strongyloidiasis and Ascariasis, are parasitic nematode infections! Strongyloides stercoralis Ascaris lumbricoides &nbsp; Here is a diagram of the Strongyloides lifecycle from the CDC: And the Ascaris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}