an·cy·lo·sto·mi·a·sis

(an'si-lō-stō-mī'ă-sis, an'ki-),

Hookworm disease caused by Ancylostoma duodenale and characterized by eosinophilia, anemia, emaciation, dyspepsia, and, in children with severe chronic infections, swelling of the abdomen with mental and physical maldevelopment.

Synonym(s): ankylostomiasis, intertropical hyphemia, tropic hyphemia, miner's disease, tunnel disease, uncinariasis

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uncinariasis

(1) Ancylostomiasis, see there (ground itch).
(2) Infection by the northern carnivore hookworm (Uncinaria stenocephala).

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References in periodicals archive

Carrion has 9 articles (e.g., actinomycosis, chromoblastomycosis, dermatomycosis); and 3) medical parasitologist Rafael Rodriguez Molina also with 9 articles (e.g., experimental studies with hogs, intestinal infections, macrocytic anemia, malaria, sprue, uncinariasis).

Moderate (n=76) Filariasis (24), Tuberculosis (18), Uncinariasis (17), Sprue (17) III.

The Puerto Rico Journal of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (1925-1950): from a health department bulletin to a UPR School of Tropical Medicine Scientific Journal

The colonial officer did mention uncinariasis and nematode, but Ashford's name was omitted.

The historical antecedents of the UPR School of Tropical Medicine

In August, 1904 he performed an autopsy of a patient who "died of intense uncinariasis complicated by intestinal bilharziosis, extracting from the trunk of the portal vein 219 schistosome flukes." By December 1904, Gonzalez-Martinez had identified 59 cases of 1321 fecal samples examined (4.5 % positive rate) and in 1905 he reported a single case from a patient from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

The rise and fall of Bilharzia in Puerto Rico: its centennial 1904-2004

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