Two articles published in this issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and
Hygiene (AJTMH) address a similar theme. McKenna et al. 1 report a study evaluating the …

Human hookworm infection is one of the most ubiquitous illnesses in people who live in
extreme poverty. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study estimates that in the year 2016 …

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In recent years, the identification of adult hookworms and hookworm-like eggs from
archaeological deposits that predate the arrival of European colonists in the late 15th …

Like other countries around the globe where conditions existed for the parasites causing
hookworm disease to thrive, this disease was a serious problem to settlers in countries of the …

To be presented before this Society for the Theobald Smith Memorial Lecture of 1962 is for
me a special honor. At the formal level, Dr. Smith was my chief for two and a half years in …

Human hookworms are clearly fascinating organisms whose biology is so closely linked to
that of man that despite nearly a century of research and of concerted attempts to bring …

Hookworm disease and its associated morbidities continue to be a major public health
problem in many tropical and subtropical nations and remain endemic throughout the …

In areas of rural poverty in the tropics and subtropics, more than 700 million persons are
infected with the parasites Necator americanus and Ancylostoma duodenale. The adult …