Bong-Kwang Jung, Jung-Yeop Lee, Taehee Chang, Hyemi Song, Jong-Yil Chai
Emerging infectious diseases 2020 JanA 60-year-old man from South Korea underwent a colonoscopy. A juvenile female worm showing 3 pairs of teeth in the buccal cavity was recovered from the descending colon. Partial sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer region showed 100% identity with Ancylostoma caninum, the dog hookworm.
Bong-Kwang Jung, Jung-Yeop Lee, Taehee Chang, Hyemi Song, Jong-Yil Chai. Rare Case of Enteric Ancylostoma caninum Hookworm Infection, South Korea. Emerging infectious diseases. 2020 Jan;26(1):181-183
PMID: 31855538
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