hookworm disease

He was one of the first great benefactors of modern science, helping to eradicate hookworm disease.

Drisdelle claims that hookworm disease, a condition not recognized or known during the Civil War was the major cause of much of the mortality.

A number of intestinal nematodes cause diseases affecting human beings, including ascariasis, trichuriasis and hookworm disease.

In Egypt, the Ebers Papyrus contains one of the few references to hookworm disease in ancient texts.

Geophagy being a common practice among southerners may have been caused by the high prevalence of hookworm disease, in which the desire to consume soil is a symptom.

Dr. Charles Stiles charted the extent of hookworm disease, and its positive correlation with insanitary soil conditions, throughout the Southeast.

Also, a few hookworm eggs in the faeces, although confirmatory evidence of infection, do not necessarily indicate that an ailing dog is suffering from hookworm disease.

He founded the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission in 1909, an organization that eventually eradicated the hookworm disease, which had long plagued rural areas of the American South.

The drug of choice for the treatment of hookworm disease is mebendazole which is effective against both species, and in addition, will remove the intestinal worm Ascaris also, if present.

Hookworm disease (also known as "Uncinariasis," and "Ground itch") is a cutaneous (skin) condition characterized by skin lesions that are erythematous macules and papules.

This series of articles discusses giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, toxoplasmosis, toxocariasis, hookworms disease, dirofilariasis (heartworm), baylisascariasis, tick and flea transmitted zoonotic diseases affecting people and animals.

In parts of the world where these climatic requirements are met such as Sri Lanka, southeast Asia and Malasia A. caninum is the main cause of hookworm disease in canines.

The disease resulting from such A. caninum infection is referred to by the general term hookworm disease or the more specific ancylostomiasis and ancylostomosis diagnoses which recognise the genus of the causative nematode.