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Descriptor English: Ancylostomiasis
Descriptor Spanish: Anquilostomiasis
Descriptor anquilostomiasis
Entry term(s) anquilostomosis
Scope note: Infección de los seres humanos o los animales producida por nematodos del género ANCYLOSTOMA. La enfermedad se caracteriza por anemia, dispepsia, eosinofilia e hinchazón abdominal.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ancilostomíase
Descriptor French: Ankylostomose
Entry term(s): Ancylostomiases
Tree number(s): C01.610.335.508.700.775.455.154
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000724
Scope note: Infection of humans or animals with hookworms of the genus ANCYLOSTOMA. Characteristics include anemia, dyspepsia, eosinophilia, and abdominal swelling.
Annotation: hookworm infect; Ancylostoma americanum infection = NECATORIASIS, not ANCYLOSTOMIASIS
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Hookworm Infections (1966-1967)
Public MeSH Note: 68; was see under HOOKWORM INFECTION 1963-67
Online Note: search HOOKWORM INFECTIONS 1966-67
History Note: 68; was see under HOOKWORM INFECTION 1963-67
DeCS ID: 735
Unique ID: D000724
NLM Classification: WC 890
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1968/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1993/06/04
Ancylostomiasis - Preferred
Concept UI M0001101
Scope note Infection of humans or animals with hookworms of the genus ANCYLOSTOMA. Characteristics include anemia, dyspepsia, eosinophilia, and abdominal swelling.
Preferred term Ancylostomiasis
Entry term(s) Ancylostomiases



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