Hookworm Vaccines

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...

The Anti-Hookworm Campaign

press, by H. E. Lord Ronaldshay, the Governor, will serve a double purpose, not only in directing the attention of the sanitary authorities to the ascertained facts of the prevalence of "the infection, but what, in the first instance, is even more important, it will make the people themselves realise that there exists among them (to the extent of 7 5 per cent.) an insidious and persistent infec...

The Human Hookworm Vaccine

Hookworm infection is one of the world's most common neglected tropical diseases and a leading cause of iron deficiency anemia in low- and middle-income countries. A Human Hookworm Vaccine is currently being developed by the Sabin Vaccine Institute and is in phase 1 clinical testing. The candidate vaccine is comprised of two recombinant antigens known as Na-GST-1 and Na-APR-1, each of which is ...

On Hookworm Anemia

By EUGENE STRANSKY, M.D., AND FLORENCIO N. QuINTos, M.D. H OOKWORM anemia has been known since the construction of the Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland in the years 1876-80. Perroncito’ observed that many Italian workers developed a severe and at times fatal anemia, with hookworm infestation. In the following decades hookworm anemia was called miner’s anemia because of its occurrence in deep humi...