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Iron and Copper Metabolisms in Hookworm Anemia [PDF]

, 1957
The authors studied the iron and copper metabolisms in dogs and patients with hookworm anemia, and obtained the following results. 1) In hookworm anemia, serum iron was low in a parallel correlation with the severity of anemia as other iron deficiency ...
Kitazima, Kazuo, Tamotsu SOGAWA, Honda, Seiken, Takakazu NAITO, Sogawa, Tamotsu, Seiken HONDA, Kazuo KITAZIMA, Asano, Kenwo, Kenwo ASANO, Naito, Takakazu, Akira SUIZU, Suizu, Akira   +11 more
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Hookworm infection in Amassoma Community in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2010
Studies on hookworm infection was conducted in Amassoma community, in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Of the 4990 faecal samples examined by standard parasitological technique, 1740 (34.9%) samples were found to contain eggs of hookworm.
PI Agi, GDB Awi-Waadu
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Epidemiology of Hookworm Infection in the School-age Children: A Comparative Cross-sectional Study

Iranian Journal of Parasitology, 2018
Background: Globally more than 740 million peoples are infected with hookworm. In sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 200 million people have been infected with hookworm, 90 million of them were children.
Berhanu ELFU FELEKE
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Levels of serum eosinophil cationic protein are associated with hookworm infection and intensity in endemic communities in Ghana.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundThe eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) is a cytotoxic protein mainly secreted by eosinophils granulocytes and plays a role in host defense against parasitic infections.
Benjamin Amoani, Bright Adu, Margaret T Frempong, Tracy Sarkodie-Addo, Samuel Victor Nuvor, Michael D Wilson, Ben Gyan   +6 more
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Water, sanitation, hygiene, and soil-transmitted helminth infection : a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Preventive chemotherapy represents a powerful but short-term control strategy for soil-transmitted helminthiasis. Since humans are often re-infected rapidly, long-term solutions require improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH ...
Addiss, D. G., Ogden, S., Utzinger, J., Jürg Utzinger (39609), Matthew C. Freeman (308891), Freeman, M. C., Meredith E. Stocks (527042), Meredith E Stocks, Stephanie Ogden (463537), Eric C. Strunz (542577), David G. Addiss (250137), Strunz, E. C., Matthew C Freeman, Eric C Strunz, Stocks, M. E., Stephanie Ogden, Jürg Utzinger, David G Addiss   +17 more
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Parasites and plantations: Disease, environment and society in efforts to induce extinction of hookworm in Jamaica, 1919–1936

Cambridge Prisms: Extinction
Studies of extinction typically focus on unintended losses of biodiversity and culture. This study, however, examines an attempt to induce extinction of a parasite: human hookworm (Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale).
Jonathan D. Roberts, Lorna L. Waddington, Rupert J. Quinnell, Graham Huggan, Alison M. Dunn   +4 more
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Effect of deworming on physical fitness of school-aged children in Yunnan, China : a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial [PDF]

, 2014
There is considerable debate on the health impacts of soil-transmitted helminth infections. We assessed effects of deworming on physical fitness and strength of children in an area in Yunnan, People's Republic of China, where soil-transmitted ...
Peter Steinmann, Xiao-Nong Zhou (92570), Krauth, Stefanie J., Utzinger, Jürg, Peter Steinmann (92572), Fang-Wei Wu (596281), Krauth, Stefanie J, Jan Hattendorf (113923), Kriemler, Susi, Jin-Yong Jiang, Yap, Peiling, Fang-Wei Wu, Zun-Wei Du, Ran Chen (182828), Ran Chen, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Jürg Utzinger, Susi Kriemler (18250), Jin-Yong Jiang (204086), Zhou, Xiao-Nong, Stefanie J Krauth, Zun-Wei Du (204085), Wu, Fang-Wei, Du, Zun-Wei, Jürg Utzinger (39609), Steinmann, Peter, Jiang, Jin-Yong, Peiling Yap, Stefanie J. Krauth (108843), Chen, Ran, Susi Kriemler, Hattendorf, Jan, Peiling Yap (596280), Jan Hattendorf   +33 more
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OP59 - Lurking Hookworm Award: Speech. Association of Caribbean Historians Annual Conference 1990, Trinidad and Tobago

, 1990
l audio cassetteThis resource is available for research. It is the property of the West Indiana and Special Collections Division, The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, St.
Blackett, Richard
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Hookworm infection in foreign countries.

, 1911
At head of title: The Rockefeller sanitary commission for the eradication of hookworm disease.Mode of access ...
Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease.
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Investigation of the Occurrence of Zoonotic Intestinal Parasites along the Karmanasa River Bank in Lalitpur, Nepal

Veterinary Medicine and Science
Introduction Increasing urbanization has particularly affected rivers and their outer edges in cities, including Kathmandu Valley, which encompasses Lalitpur, the nation's third‐largest city.
Roshan Babu Adhikari, Diksha Ghimire, Tirth Raj Ghimire   +2 more
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