Rare Case of Enteric Ancylostoma caninum Hookworm Infection, South Korea

Jung, Bong-Kwang; Lee, Jung-Yeop; Chang, Taehee; Song, Hyemi; Chai, Jong-Yil

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Rare Case of Enteric Ancylostoma caninum Hookworm Infection, South Korea

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Jan 2020
By Jung, Bong-Kwang ; Lee, Jung-Yeop ; Chang, Taehee ; ...

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Alternative Title:

Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:

Jung, Bong-Kwang ; Lee, Jung-Yeop ; Chang, Taehee ; Song, Hyemi ; Chai, Jong-Yil
Description:

A 60-year-old man from South Korea underwent a colonoscopy. A juvenile female worm showing 3 pairs of teeth in the buccal cavity was recovered from the descending colon. Partial sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer region showed 100% identity with Ancylostoma caninum, the dog hookworm.
Subjects:

Ancylostoma Ancylostomiasis Animals Humans Male Middle Aged Phylogeny Polymerase Chain Reaction Sequence Analysis, DNA
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 26(1):181-183
Pubmed ID:

31855538
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC6924899
Document Type:

Journal Article
Place as Subject:

Republic of Korea
Location:

Asia
Volume:

26
Issue:

1
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:3eb4df7424bac94374df967d055881badad62ee4f42c1359b270a96cec136685
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/83910/cdc_83910_DS1.pdf
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