Tapeworm, ascariasis, pinworms: intestinal parasites

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Intestinal parasites affect 2 billion people worldwide each year. iStock / sefa ozel

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Intestinal parasites affect 2 billion people worldwide each year.

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Among the most common forms of intestinal parasitosis are tapeworms, ascariasis or pinworms. The origin of the contamination is mainly the mouth. Treatment can have positive results when symptoms are visible. Otherwise, the infection can progress chronically and cause serious problems.

What are the modes of contamination? How to recognize them? What treatments to get rid of it? Who to consult?

  • Pr Arezki Izri, head of the Parasitology-Mycology service at the Avicenne Hospital in Bobigny, in the Paris region.
  • Pr Hervé Ménan, professor of parasitology and mycology, head of the parasitology and mycology department at the UFR of pharmaceutical and biological sciences of the Félix Houphouët Boigny University in Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire, vice-president of the African society of parasitology and director of CeDReS (Center for Diagnosis and Research on AIDS and other infectious diseases)

At the end of the program, we take stock of the scientific program of the Neurology Days of the Senegalese Association of Neurology which takes place from February 24 to 25. We are talking about it with Dr Marième Soda Diop Sène , epileptologist neurologist and neurophysologist at Fann hospital in Dakar, Senegal. General secretary of the Senegalese league against epilepsy.

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