Infantile hookworm disease in China: a review

摘要: Hundreds of cases infantile hookworm disease which shows bloody stools, melena, anorexia, listlessness and oedema, have been reported in China since the 1960s. Hookworm eggs were detected due course faeces cases. With exception a single worm identified as Necator americanus, all adult worms expelled following chemotherapy or examined at autopsy Ancylostoma duodenale. Many children showed clinical manifestations their on day 1-26 after birth, more occurred within 3 months birth. Evidently, these infections mostly transmitted from mothers by transplacental and/or transmammary routes.