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    Hookworm infection is an infection by a type of intestinal parasite known as a hookworm. Initially, itching and a rash may occur at the site of infection...
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    Hookworms are intestinal, blood-feeding, parasitic roundworms that cause types of infection known as helminthiases. Hookworm infection is found in many...
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    Necator americanus are the two human hookworm species that are normally discussed together as the cause of hookworm infection. They are dioecious. Ancylostoma...
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    hookworm infection and whipworm infection. These three types of infection are therefore caused by the large roundworm A. lumbricoides, the hookworms Necator...
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    detected by examining the feces for eggs or larvae. Roundworm infection in dogs and the hookworm in dogs is of particular health significance in Central Europe...
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    Necator americanus is a species of hookworm (a type of helminth) commonly known as the New World hookworm. Like other hookworms, it is a member of the phylum...
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    hookworms against the commonly used treatments, thus a vaccine against hookworm disease is sought to provide more permanent resistance to infection....
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    Topical Solution, uses moxidectin for control and prevention of roundworms, hookworms, heartworms, and whipworms, as well as imidacloprid to kill adult fleas...
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    Parasites - Hookworm". Retrieved 13 January 2015. "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Parasites - Trichuriasis (also known as Whipworm Infection)". Retrieved...
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    Pinworm infection (threadworm infection in the UK), also known as enterobiasis, is a human parasitic disease caused by the pinworm, Enterobius vermicularis...
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    environment from where the definitive hosts (humans and other mammals) get the infection. In some species, another intermediate host is required, generally a cyprinid...
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    of organisms causing these conditions are protozoa (causing protozoan infection), helminths (helminthiasis), and ectoparasites. Protozoa and helminths...
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    species of nematode known as a hookworm, which principally infects the small intestine of dogs. The result of A. caninum infection ranges from asymptomatic...
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    infection), and hookworm infection (includes necatoriasis and Ancylostoma duodenale infection) Trichostrongyliasis (Trichostrongylus spp. infection)...
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    definitive host, where the flukes sexually reproduce, is a vertebrate. Infection by trematodes can cause disease in all five traditional vertebrate classes:...
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    the host. In adult cats, the infection – which is called toxocariasis – is usually asymptomatic. However, massive infection in juvenile cats can be fatal...
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    disease in humans, caused by the larvae of various nematode parasites of the hookworm family (Ancylostomatidae). The parasites live in the intestines of dogs...
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  • keratopathy Haemophilus felis Head pressing Heart valve dysplasia Hookworm infection Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Leishmaniasis Luxating patella Lyme disease...
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    culturally appropriate. Sometimes geophagy is a consequence of carrying a hookworm infection. Although its etiology remains unknown, geophagy has many potential...
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    treatment of a variety of intestinal parasite infections, including ascariasis, pinworm infection, hookworm infection, trichuriasis, strongyloidiasis, taeniasis...
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    Whipworm infection affected about 464 million in 2015. It is most common in tropical countries. Those infected with whipworm often also have hookworm and ascariasis...
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    role in infection rates. In India, Muslims can have a higher rate of infection compared to Hindus, who do not eat beef. T. saginata infection is usually...
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  • Ancylostoma. It is a hookworm both of humans and of other mammals such as dogs, cats, and golden hamsters. It is the only zoonotic hookworm species that is...
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    People living in tropical and subtropical countries are at greater risk of infection. It has been proposed that Ascaris lumbricoides and Ascaris suum (pig...
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    is a species of hookworm belonging to the genus Ancylostoma. It is an intestinal parasite of domestic cats and dogs. Severe infection is often fatal to...
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  • condition of infection by Necator hookworms, such as Necator americanus. This hookworm infection is a type of helminthiasis (infection) which is a type...
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    Cestoda (redirect from Cestode infection)
    Tapeworm Infection 2005 Mayo Clinic Website on infectious diseases, Mayo Clinic - Tapeworm Infection, 2006 Medline Plus - Taeniasis (tapeworm infection) University...
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    Filariasis is a parasitic disease caused by an infection with roundworms of the Filarioidea type. These are spread by blood-feeding insects such as black...
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    worm spread to Angola c. 2018, and it is now considered endemic there. Infection of domestic dogs is a serious complication in Chad. The common name "guinea...
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    including southern China, and the Pacific islands. If left untreated, the infection can develop into lymphatic filariasis. In rare conditions, it also causes...
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