Hookworm: “The Great Infection of Mankind”

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 ...

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...

رابطه بین بیماری کم خونی و کرم قلابدار در شمال ایران relationship between intensity of hookworm infection and anaemia

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