A patient consulted a physician about chest pain, cough, fever. Roentgenography of lungs revealed eosinophilic infiltrates which were found to contain the larvae. What kind of helminthiasis are these presentations typical for?

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Ascariasis is a helminths which spends the larvae stage in the lungs where they later move on to the small intestine.

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