How Do Skin-Penetrating Nematodes Find Your Feet as You Walk Barefoot Through Soil?

When I say I'm a neurobiologist who studies how parasitic worms use smell to find animals to infect, the response I usually get is, Parasitic worms can smell? Yes, many parasitic worms sense a wide variety of odors. How exactly they use odors to search for hosts is a question I'm working to answer.

Cutaneous Larva Migrans as a frequent problem in travellers, Kuna

What's the scariest parasite a person can get? - Quora

Dermatologic Manifestations of Filariasis: Overview, Onchocerciasis, Lymphatic Filariasis

Cutaneous Larva Migrans Current Tropical Medicine Reports

How to Get Rid of Nematodes, Organic Pest Control

8 Common Parasitic Worms That May Lurk in Humans - Blogs - Makati Medical Center

Potentially deadly parasite that goes through bare feet is in US

Terror in the dirt: Sensory determinants of host seeking in soil-transmitted mammalian-parasitic nematodes - ScienceDirect

Hookworm, Facts, Life Cycle, Picture, & Treatment