A medical scan showed live hookworms in a woman’s stomach, shocking doctors who said she didn’t have the telltale gastrointestinal symptoms of the parasitic infection. The Chinese farmer, 75, first ...
The preceding answer choices represent, in descending order, the 5 most prevalent helminth infections worldwide: ascariasis, trichuriasis (or whipworm), hookworm, schistosomiasis, and lymphatic ...
Researchers from the University of Washington received a $2.1 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a clinical trial for a hookworm vaccine. The trial will take place ...