anthelmintic: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	vermifuge • antihelmintic

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Photograph of a zygote of the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides.

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Key People

Ōmura Satoshi

Ōmura Satoshi

Japanese microbiologist

Campbell, William

William Campbell

Irish-born American parasitologist