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Institutional Hookworm Disease in a Non-Endemic Region1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

W. A. Sawyer ,
W. C. Sweet  and
A. Eland Shaw
W. A. Sawyer
Affiliation:
International Health Board
W. C. Sweet
Affiliation:
International Health Board
A. Eland Shaw
Affiliation:
Goodna, Queensland, Australia.
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Conditions in institutions for children or defectives may become peculiarly favourable to the propagation of hookworm disease. The subject of the present study is a long-standing infection with Ancylostoma duodenale in the Hospital for the Insane at Goodna, Queensland, the largest of the three hospitals for the insane maintained by the State Government. The investigation was of special interest because the institution is in a region in which the general population is free from hookworm disease, owing to low rainfall, and because the infection was with A. duodenale, while the predominating hookworm infection of Queensland is with Necator americanus.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , October 1923 , pp. 77 - 88
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1923

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