Infections with a heavy worm burden can lead to anemia, cholecystitis, and emaciation.
Even when they have heavy worm burdens, large juveniles grow faster than smaller individuals with light worm burdens.
Facilitation processes cause the reproductive success of the parasite to decrease with lower worm burden.
With increasing worm burden, symptoms such as restlessness, irritability, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.
Other studies using the same vaccine have shown statistically significant 79% reductions in worm burden resulting from this approach.
Such observations made an intuitive connection between worm burden and intellectual performance, but even today this link is anything but well-established.
Every mouthful of this grass is adding to the worm burden.
There was no reason why it should, because none of the samples showed a pathogenic worm burden.
With APR-1, vaccination even led to reduced worm burden.
Juvenile frogs are often infected and a heavy worm burden can seriously restrict their growth.