Horsehair worms develop in the bodies of crickets, grasshoppers, and cockroaches as parasites and when they turn into the maturity stage they then leave the host to lay eggs. These worms are found in mainly dump areas, for example, watering troughs, pools, domestic water containers, dump garden soil, streams, puddles, and cisterns and the adult worms live freely in most cases. They are long worms with a size range of 100 millimeters long and in extreme cases a diameter of 3 millimeters. Horsehair worms also known as Nematomorpha or Gordiacea or Gordian Worms are threadlike roundworms similar to a horse’s tail and nematode worms in morphology. In this article, we will talk about horsehair worm and horsehair nematomorpha human diagnosis.
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