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http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Ascariasis.htm
http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic840.htm
http://ryoko.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/ascaris.html
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/ascaris/default.htm
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http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/2002/Vol80-No1/bulletin_2002_80(1)_40-46.pdf
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Useful Weblinks:

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/ascariasis/en/

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/ascaris/default.htm

http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic840.htm

http://www.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/