Hira P R, Patel B G
J Trop Med Hyg. 1984 Feb;87(1):7-10.
The rate of hookworm infections, determined by stool examination over a 7-month period, was 16.56% in medical examinees and 19.91% in in-patients in an urban hospital population in Zambia. The egg-load though was low. Culture of ova to the filariform larval stage, examination of adult worms expelled after anthelminthic treatment and collected at autopsy confirmed that the dominant species was Necator americanus. However, we report, perhaps for the first time, the presence of Ancylostoma duodenale in man in Zambia. Such information is important in assessing the clinical significance of hookworm infection in the country and for formulating a rational chemotherapeutic policy. No cases of infection with the 'false' hookworm Ternidens deminutus were identified.
在赞比亚一家城市医院的人群中，通过为期7个月的粪便检查确定，体检者的钩虫感染率为16.56%，住院患者的感染率为19.91%。不过虫卵负荷较低。将虫卵培养至丝状蚴阶段、检查驱虫治疗后排出并在尸检时收集的成虫，证实优势种为美洲板口线虫。然而，我们或许首次报告了赞比亚人体内存在十二指肠钩口线虫。此类信息对于评估该国钩虫感染的临床意义以及制定合理的化疗政策很重要。未发现感染“假”钩虫微小齿龈线虫的病例。
