How to Use pinworm in a Sentence
pinworm
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Additionally some pathogens, including pinworm, were present in the majority of samples.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
22 Oct. 2025
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The types of roundworms typically in humans include pinworms and ascariasis, but can be treated with medication.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
19 Dec. 2025
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For example, the medication mebendazole starves pinworms by stopping them from absorbing glucose.
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Sarah Boden,
NPR,
16 Mar. 2026
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Some of these pathogens are human-specific, including pinworm and Shigella, which indicates that this is a way to distinguish human infected from the waste of other species.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
22 Oct. 2025
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These methods sort through the DNA in a sample looking for specific genes that are signatures of parasites like pinworms, as well as bacterial pathogens.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
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For Capone, this high precedence of pinworm was incredibly surprising, given that the samples were over 1,000 years old and the DNA would have been highly degraded over such a long period of time.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
22 Oct. 2025
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