hookworm

How To Use hookworm In A Sentence

• Trichuris was more prevalent in urban children, Ascaris and hookworm were more common in rural children, and hookworm was particularly rare in the urban area.
• = -- The parasites found in food in this country are echinococcus, guineaworm, hookworm, trichina, and tapeworm. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)
• It is said to succeed better than thymol in hookworm (uncinariasis) and, unlike that agent, can be given in association with castor oil, the latter also increasing its efficiency.
• The monthly preventative treatment that Lulu receives is effective on heartworm infection and intestinal parasites such as roundworm, hookworm and whipworm. Life & Style
• It eliminates the tissue stages of heartworms and also removes and controls adult and immature stages of hookworms.
• Transmission of roundworm, whipworm and hookworm requires a warm wet environment to ensure survival of eggs or larvae in soil that is contaminated with human faeces.
• Little threadworms and hookworms are about one centimetre long, while roundworms are about 20 cm long and our friend the tapeworm can reach up to 10 metres in length.
• A few years ago, a well-known research immunologist injected himself with hookworms and reduced his allergic symptoms (shudder).
• House flies are suspected of transmitting at least 65 human diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax, leprosy, food poisoning, pinworms, hookworms, and some tapeworms.
• Back in the Stone Age (or the Middle Ages, for that matter), the immunoglobulin E system had its hands full fighting off roundworms, tapeworms, hookworms, and flukes; it had no time for being precious about dust mites and cat hair.