Example sentences for: hookworms

How can you use “hookworms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Because immunization would only affect hookworm larvae and not adult hookworms already residing in the gastrointestinal tract of infected individuals, the first dose of the vaccine would be administered following deworming.

  • Because hookworms do not replicate in humans, the morbidity of hookworm is highest among patients that harbor large numbers of adult parasites.

  • Tapeworms, hookworms or lung fluke are known to be debilitating when in large numbers [ 29 ] . If the same applies to wild tigers parasites can potentially be an important population regulating factor in tigers.

  • Adult hookworms cause morbidity in the host by producing intestinal hemorrhage [3].

  • The worms mate and the female hookworms produce up to 30,000 eggs per day, which exit the host's body in the feces (Figure 3).


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