Hookworm Infection

Hookworm Infection

Physical Efficiency in Hookworm Infection

For a long time it has been known that hookworm infection causes loss of physical and mental efficiency in the persons affected. The degree of this loss has been supposed to depend upon the number of worms harboured in the system. Recent work on the subject, however, shows that there is a wide difference of opinion amongst workers. For instance Strong (1916) investigating the effects of hookwor...

Recent Researches on Hookworm Infection in Indonesia

I alone am responsible for the opinions as they are expressed in this paper. The members of the Board were placed under great obligations by the kindness of planters, administrators, and doctors in Malaya, Java, and Sumatra, and I feel especially indebted to Dr. Chas. Lane Sansom, c.m.g., p.m.o., Fed. M. S.; Hon. W. Gilmore Ellis, p.c.m.o., Straits Settlements, and to Den Hogg. Ed. Gestr., Herr...

Hookworm: “The Great Infection of Mankind”

0187 Introduction In 1962, Norman Stoll, the distinguished Rockefeller Institute scientist who helped to establish human parasitology research in North America, described the unique health impact of hookworm as follows [1]: As it was when I fi rst saw it, so it is now, one of the most evil of infections. Not with dramatic pathology as are fi lariasis, or schistosomiasis, but with damage silent ...

Peptide-Based Subunit Vaccine against Hookworm Infection

Hookworms infect more people than HIV and malaria combined, predominantly in third world countries. Treatment of infection with chemotherapy can have limited efficacy and re-infections after treatment are common. Heavy infection often leads to debilitating diseases. All these factors suggest an urgent need for development of vaccine. In an attempt to develop a vaccine targeting the major human ...