Meanings of ascaris lumbricoides in English

Ascaris lumbricoides or roundworm is one of the key soil-transmitted helminths affecting humans.

Children putatively immune to the large roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides were identified in an area of Nigeria where infection is hyperendemic.

Health inequities and poverty, with resulting deficiencies in water, sanitation and hygiene, are directly associated with Ascaris lumbricoides prevalence in humans.