| wormy persons: contributions to the nature and patterns of overdispersion with ascaris lumbricoides, ancylosotma duodenale, necator americanus and trichuris trichiura. | the dominant intestinal helminths in the iranian villages of kargar malleh (hookworms), bandar abbas (hookworms) and jazin (ascaris lumbricoides and trichuris trichiura), were recorded with their frequency distributions, in 80, 40 and 111 villagers, respectively in 1977-78. anthelminthics were then used to remove all intestinal stages which were identified and counted. analyses showed clumped or over-dispersed patterns in all cases. each community contained 'wormy persons', 1 to 3% of the indivi ... | 1981 | 7314236 |