Diseases Caused by Worms

 

Name of Disease

Causing Agent

Mode of Transmission

Taeniasis

Taenia solium

on eating pork

Ancylosioniasis or Hook worm disease

Ancyclostoma duodenale

walking barefoot on faecally contaminated soil

Ascariasis

Ascaris lumbriocoides

swallowing ripe Ascaris egg with raw vegetables

Enterobiasis or Pinworm disease

Enterobius vermicularis

eating eggs in contaminated food or drink

Filariasis

Wuchereria bancrofti

mosquito bite