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Today, new international efforts to control the morbidity of hookworm and other soil-transmitted helminth infections are in progress (www.who.int/wormcontrol).
Estimates of the intensity of hookworm infection are typically obtained by using quantitative fecal egg counts as a surrogate marker for worm burden.
However, there are also several reasons to believe that the school-based deworming programs could have less of an impact on the control of morbidity from hookworm than from other STH and schistosome infections [3].
He further offered the silent and insidious character of hookworm as a partial explanation for its neglect by the global medical community.
Hookworm infection is acquired by invasion of the infective larval stages through the skin (