A world-first human trial at James Cook University using live hookworms to combat diseases such as type 2 diabetes has proven successful—sparking interest in staging a larger-scale international trial ...
The study tested stool specimens from 704 children from Alabama’s Wilcox and Perry counties for STH. Results surprisingly found no traces of STH in any samples, despite 12 percent of the study cohort ...
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US researchers have genetically modified hookworms to produce and secrete specific antibodies. This is a “first step” towards creating “living pharmaceutical factories” th ...
Soil-transmitted helminthiases are a group of parasitic infections caused by roundworms, hookworms and whipworms. They are ...
Dr. Kate Elden, DVM, is a veterinary leader and chief medical officer at Dutch. She is driven by a lifelong belief in the power of the human-animal bond—shaped early by grow… Hookworms may be tiny, ...
A study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases found no cases of soil-transmitted hookworm in hundreds of tested children, refuting a long thought public health concern that linked the illness to ...