Image: Left: Filariform (元) hookworm larva in a wet mount. Hookworm infections are treatable with medication prescribed by your health care provider. The most serious effects of hookworm infection are blood loss leading to anemia, in addition to protein loss. Some have gastrointestinal symptoms, especially persons who are infected for the first time. Most people infected with hookworms have no symptoms. One kind of hookworm can also be transmitted through the ingestion of larvae. Hookworm infection is mainly acquired by walking barefoot on contaminated soil. americanus predominates in the Americas and Australia it was once widely distributed in the southern United States and is still. duodenale occurs in the Middle East, North Africa, and southern Europe.N. americanus occur in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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The larvae mature into a form that can penetrate the skin of humans. The estimated worldwide prevalence of hookworm infection is 576 to 740 million, mostly in developing areas. This parasite evolved to live in the blood of small mammals, which usually don't show any ill effects of infection, according to a 2009 paper published in the journal Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. They can then mature and hatch, releasing larvae (immature worms). Pictures Of Common Human Parasites This confetti-like image is Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme Disease. If the infected person defecates outside (near bushes, in a garden, or field) of if the feces of an infected person are used as fertilizer, eggs are deposited on soil. In such cases, people may have no symptoms or may have abdominal pain. Hookworm eggs are passed in the feces of an infected person. Rarely, larvae of an animal hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum, travel to the intestine. Together, they account for a major burden of disease worldwide. Hookworm, Ascaris, and whipworm are known as soil-transmitted helminths (parasitic worms). Hookworm was once widespread in the United States, particularly in the southeastern region, but improvements in living conditions have greatly reduced hookworm infections. An estimated 576-740 million people in the world are infected with hookworm.
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