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What (who) is ancylostomiasis - definition

DISEASE OF HUMANS AND ANIMALS CAUSED BY PARASITIC WORMS KNOWN AS ANKYLOSTOIDS.
Anchylostomiasis; Miners' anaemia; Tunnel disease; Brickmaker's anaemia; Egyptian chlorosis; Ancylostomiasis of skin
  • An epidemic of "miner's [[anaemia]]" caused by ''Ancylostoma duodenale'' among workers constructing the [[Gotthard Tunnel]] contributed to the understanding of ancylostomiasis.<ref name=Peduzzi/>

ancylostomiasis         
[?a?k?l?(?)st?(?)'m???s?s, ?ans?-]
(also ankylostomiasis)
¦ noun Medicine hookworm infection of the small intestine, often leading to anaemia.
Origin
C19: from mod. L. Ancylostoma (a genus of hookworms) + -iasis.
Ancylostomiasis         
Ancylostomiasis is a hookworm disease caused by infection with Ancylostoma hookworms. The name is derived from Greek ancylos αγκύλος "crooked, bent" and stoma στόμα "mouth".
Ankylostomiasis         
  •  ''Ancylostoma braziliense'' mouthparts
  • [[Civilian Public Service]] workers built and installed 2,065 [[outhouse]]s for hookworm eradication in [[Mississippi]] and [[Florida]] from 1943 to 1947.
  • Hookworm egg
  • A doctor examines a boy for signs of hookworm in [[Coffee County, Alabama]], 1939.
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  • Ethiopian children treated for schistosoma and hookworms
HUMAN DISEASE
Hookworm Disease; Ankylostomiasis; Wurmkrankheit; Uncinariasis; Letospira interrogans; Brickmaker's anæmia; Hookworm infections; Hookworm disease; Hookworm infestation; Hookworm diseases; Footworm
·add. ·noun A disease due to the presence of the parasites Agchylostoma duodenale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe anaemia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anaemia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anaemia, Egyptian chlorosis.

Wikipedia

Ancylostomiasis

Ancylostomiasis is a hookworm disease caused by infection with Ancylostoma hookworms. The name is derived from Greek ancylos αγκύλος "crooked, bent" and stoma στόμα "mouth".

Ancylostomiasis is also known as miner's anaemia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anaemia and Egyptian chlorosis. Helminthiasis may also refer to ancylostomiasis, but this term also refers to all other parasitic worm diseases as well. In the United Kingdom, if acquired in the context of working in a mine, the condition is eligible for Industrial Injuries Disability Benefit. It is a prescribed disease (B4) under the relevant legislation.§

Ancylostomiasis is caused when hookworms, present in large numbers, produce an iron deficiency anemia by sucking blood from the host's intestinal walls.