If your child wakes up scratching their bottom at night, pay close attention - that persistent nighttime itching is the most common sign of pinworms. This itch, often worse after bedtime, can mean ...

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When parents first notice their kids have a pinworm infection, they usually flip. “It freaks parents out,” says Dr. Kristin Bencik-Boudreau, a pediatrician at Bayshore Pediatrics, a primary care ...

Though pinworm infestation has been prevalent since the early years of laboratory animal medicine, the genomes of these parasites have not yet been sequenced. The authors used high-fidelity polymerase ...