Horne P D
Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Ontario.
J Parasitol. 2002 Oct;88(5):1019-21. doi: 10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[1019:FEOEIA]2.0.CO;2.
The oldest and most common parasite for which we have direct evidence, in the New World, is Enterobius vernicularis. Numerous archaeological sites, especially in the arid American southwest, have yielded fecal samples positive for pinworm ova, some of these dating back 10,000 yr. Reports of pinworm from the Old World are scarce. This article reports the first evidence of pinworm infection from Roman-occupied (30 BC-AD 395) Egypt.
在新世界，我们有直接证据的最古老且最常见的寄生虫是蠕形住肠线虫。许多考古遗址，尤其是美国西南部干旱地区的遗址，都发现了含有蛲虫卵的粪便样本呈阳性，其中一些可追溯到1万年前。来自旧世界的蛲虫报告很少。本文报告了在罗马占领时期（公元前30年至公元395年）的埃及首次发现蛲虫感染的证据。
