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A minimal computation of the amount of blood removed daily by Haemonchus contortus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

C. J. Martin  and
I. Clunies Ross
C. J. Martin
Affiliation:
(From the Division of Animal Nutrition, Adelaide, and the McMaster Animal Health Laboratory, Sydney.)
I. Clunies Ross
Affiliation:
(From the Division of Animal Nutrition, Adelaide, and the McMaster Animal Health Laboratory, Sydney.)
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Extract

It has been generally held that the severe anaemia and other pathogenic effects of infestation by hookworm in man and dogs, and by Haemonchus contortus in sheep, are insufficiently explained by the amount of blood removed by the parasites. The action of haemotoxins has therefore been postulated.

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Research Article
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , June 1934 , pp. 137 - 142
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1934

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