Hookworms in the Americas: An alternative to trans-Pacific contact

Parasitology Today

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 72-74

  Hawdon, John M ^a   Johnston, Susan A ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HOOKWORM; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SHORT SURVEY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA;

EID: 0030025838     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-4758(96)80658-2     Document Type: Article

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