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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 21(3), 1972, pp. 300-301
Copyright © 1972 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Ancylostoma Ceylanicum: a Parasite of Man in Calcutta and Environs*

A. B. Chowdhury{dagger} AND G. A. Schad{ddagger}
The Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Medical Research and Training, Calcutta

Sixteen of 183 persons (8.7%) of a predominantly rural sample population (175 from a village 40 miles north of Calcutta and 8 from the city) harbored Ancylostoma ceylanicum. In all but one instance this species occurred concurrently with both Necator americanus and A. duodenale; in the remaining case it was recovered with the latter only. A. ceylanicum constituted 0.1% of all the hookworms recovered, and even in the 16 persons infected with this species it accounted for only 1.3% of the worms. In only one of these infections were both sexes represented.

Accepted for publication January 24, 1972.


* This research was supported, in part, by the United States Public Health Service Grant No. 5 RO 7 TW00141-05CIC, and, in part, under Public Law-480, Section 104 (c), agreement No. 6X4327.


{dagger} Division of Parasitology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta 12, India.


{ddagger} Department of Pathobiology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.




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