Hookworm infection in returning travellers and migrants: a 10-year case series at a German center for tropical medicine

J Travel Med. 2021 Jan 6;28(1):taaa183. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa183.

Authors

Farah Saffar¹, Florian Kurth^{1

2}, Egbert Tannich³, Michael Ramharter¹, Johannes Jochum¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20359 Hamburg, Germany.
² Medizinische Klinik mit Schwerpunkt Infektiologie und Pneumologie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
³ Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, National Reference Centre for Tropical Pathogens, 20359 Hamburg, Germany.

PMID: 33140825
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaa183

No abstract available

Keywords: Travel medicine; ancylostoma; eosinophilia; hypereosinophilia; soil-transmitted helminths.

MeSH terms

Hookworm Infections* / diagnosis
Hookworm Infections* / epidemiology
Humans
Transients and Migrants*
Travel
Tropical Medicine*