What is a medical worm?

Worms are multicellular animals. Most of them exist in nature, and a few will be parasitic in animals and plants or on their bodies. Worms parasitic on human body are called medical worms.

Worms parasitic on humans are mainly trematodes and tapeworms of Platycladus orientalis and nematodes of Linear Animals.

They can be parasitic on human digestive tract, biliary tract and blood vessels, as well as lung, liver, brain, muscle and other tissues and organs.