Cutaneous Hookworm Reservoir*

Hookworm-related Cutaneous Larva Migrans with Exceptional Multiple Cutaneous Entries

Hookworm-related Cutaneous Larva Migrans (HrCLM) is a pruritic serpiginous cutaneous eruption caused by animal hookworms commonly found in tropical and subtropical areas, especially the Southeastern United States. We describe here a very exceptional HrCLM case showing multiple larva entries/lesions in a 63-yearold white male living in Miami. Clinically he presented with multiple pruritic erythe...

Hookworm-related cutaneous larva migrans acquired in the UK.

Hookworm-related cutaneous larva migrans (HrCLM) is a skin disease caused by infection with the larvae of animal hookworms. With conditions for infection more favourable in tropical climates, HrCLM in the UK is classically diagnosed in the returning traveller. We present two cases of clinically diagnosed UK-acquired HrCLM from a district general hospital in the south of England. A 68-year-old w...

Prolonged incubation period of Hookworm-related cutaneous larva migrans.

A 58-year-old woman presented with a 10-day history of a pruritic rash and pain in the web space between the right first and second toe, extending laterally along the dorsal surface of her foot (Figure 1). Three months before symptom onset she had walked barefoot on the beach in Grenada. She had no other relevant history. Physical examination revealed a serpiginous erythematous tract on the dor...

Hookworm Infection

Detection of Hookworm Eggs

IN the routine examination of stools for hookworm eggs the work of the .Rockefeller International Health Board has proved that the centrifuge increases the positive findings by just over ten per cent. This has been proved independently by the workers in Trinidad and in British Guiana their results being, curiously enough, identical within one place of decimals. It is obvious on consideration th...