Anchylostomiasis is a parasitic disease of animals characterized by dermatitis creeping eruptions, anaemia, diarrhoea and progressive emaciation.
- This is also known as Hook worm disease.
- Eggs are released in faeces hatch into larvae.
- Infect the host through skin penetration or ingestion.
- Larvae migrate to the lungs.
- Finally reaches in intestine through cough swallowing.
- During migration, they may penetrate placenta and infect foetus or may appear in milk to infect suckling neonates.
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