Evaluation of Hookworm Diagnosis Techniques from Patients in Debre Elias and Sanja Districts of the Amhara Region, Ethiopia

dc.contributor.author	Jejaw Zeleke, Ayalew
dc.contributor.author	etal
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-06T12:22:09Z
dc.date.available	2023-04-06T12:22:09Z
dc.date.issued	2023-04-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5804
dc.description.abstract	mately 500 million people, with 5.1 billion at risk for acquiring infection worldwide [4]. Hookworm is a blood-feeding intestinal worm, and the mature larvae ingest the blood, rupture the erythrocytes, and degrade the hemoglobin by attaching to the gut wall, which results in iron deficiency anemia. Hookworm changes feeding sites and during feeding secretes an anticoagulant, resulting in additional blood loss from the damaged gut wall. The most damaging effects of hookworm infections include impaired physical, intellectual, and cognitive development of children, increased mortality in pregnant women and their infants, and reduced work capacity of adolescents and adults [5, 6]	en_US
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dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Hookworm is one of the big three soil-transmitted helminths (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and hookworm). These three helminths infect more than two billion people worldwide, and the disease burden might approach that of malaria [1]. Soil-transmitted helminth infections cause a great and frequently silent burden of morbidity and mortality on poor populations in developing countries that accounts for approximately 85% of the NTD burden [2, 3]. Despite the existence of control programs, the hookworm disease burden remains high. Currently, hookworm affects appro	en_US
dc.title	Evaluation of Hookworm Diagnosis Techniques from Patients in Debre Elias and Sanja Districts of the Amhara Region, Ethiopia	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US