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Clinical features

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Symptoms depend on the load - usually the infections are asymptomatic, but when an individual has more than 200 worms they can reach the rectum, causing:

  • a need to defaecate during the night
  • abdominal pain
  • chronic watery or bloody diarrhoea
  • rectal prolapse
  • eosinophilia
  • anaemia
  • finger clubbing
  • short stature in chronic infection

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