Hookworm: Not a pre-Columbian pathogen

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 297-308

  Fuller, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hookworm; Life cycle; Pathogen; pre Columbian

Indexed keywords

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTORY; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0031158105     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.1997.9966143     Document Type: Article

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