An overview on human helminthic parasitology I. Nematodes, the roundworms

This is perhaps one of the wonders of science that currently we have certain effective anthelmintics to cure more than 300 types of parasitic worm infections found in the human body. Therefore, we have never paid the due attention in some lethal consequences caused by them. The present paper is first in the series of human helminthic parasitology and an attempt to discuss certain roundworms causing various ailments and diseases in human in the light of recent researches done so far in the same field.