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Hookworm: “The Great Infection of Mankind”

Peter J. Hotez, Jeff Bethony, María Elena Bottazzi, Simon Brooker, Paulo Marchiori Buss

PLoS Medicine · 2005 · 205 citations · 18 references

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Abstract

Over the last five years, there has been increasing recognition of the global health importance of hookworm. New international efforts to control the morbidity of hookworm are in progress

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