Hookworms are soil-transmitted nematode parasites that can reside for many years in the small intestine of their human hosts, where they suck blood and can cause iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) in ...

Hookworms are parasites that affect the small intestine and lungs. Symptoms generally start with itchiness and a rash where the larvae entered your skin. Doctor-prescribed medications are effective ...

Hookworms are a nasty intestinal parasite that can affect humans and animals alike. Hookworm larvae typically reach their host through infected soil. The parasite, which the Center for Disease Control ...

Treatment with hookworm larvae was well tolerated in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), and although the primary outcome was not met there was some evidence of a beneficial therapeutic effect in ...

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Parasitic hookworm therapy had no significant benefit on MRI in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), the phase II WIRMS trial showed. However, about half of hookworm-treated participants and a ...

A new collaboration between researchers at the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. will aid researchers in providing care for ...

The U.S. thought it wiped out hookworm decades ago. But a new study shows that it never truly went away. Hookworm thrives in regions of extreme poverty with poor sanitation and affects some 740 ...

Hookworm infection is the result of a parasitic roundworm that lives in the small intestine of birds or mammals. These are blood-feeding worms cause one of the most neglected tropical disease called ...

Hookworm infections in humans are caused by two important species of nematode parasites (a type of a roundworm), Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus. A much larger group of hookworms that ...