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ALTHOUGH hookworm infection (anchylostomiasis) is so rare in this country as to be unknown except among miners, the principles governing its control give an illustration of the relationship between specific and general control over infection, which is not without value for British hygienists. For this reason a monograph recently issued by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research1 is deserving of attention. Hookworm disease is chiefly a rural disease in Brazil as elsewhere, and is most prevalent where there is complete disregard of elementary sanitation, especially in warm climatic conditions, which favour the life of the hookworm embryo in the soil, and encourage workpeople to go barefooted.
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"Studies on Hookworm Infection in Brazil, 1918–20." Second paper by Dr. Wilson G. Smillie (Monographs of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, No. 17, May 12, 1922).
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General and Specific Sanitation. Nature 110, 169–170 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110169a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110169a0