"Ancylostoma" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of nematode intestinal parasites that consists of several species. A. duodenale is the common hookworm in humans. A. braziliense, A. ceylonicum, and A. caninum occur primarily in cats and dogs, but all have been known to occur in humans.
| Descriptor ID |
D000722
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.500.294.400.968.100.100
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| Concept/Terms |
Ancylostoma duodenale- Ancylostoma duodenale
- Hookworm, Old World
- Hookworms, Old World
- Old World Hookworm
- Old World Hookworms
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ancylostoma" by people in Profiles.
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Banas V, Elfawal MA, Rosa BA, Mahoney M, Kauffman J, Goetz E, Chen P, Aroian RV, Mitreva M, Janetka JW. Discovery of Human PIM Kinase Inhibitors as a Class of Anthelmintic Drugs to Treat Intestinal Nematode Infections. ACS Infect Dis. 2025 Feb 14; 11(2):506-517.
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Elfawal MA, Goetz E, Kim Y, Chen P, Savinov SN, Barasa L, Thompson PR, Aroian RV. High-Throughput Screening of More Than 30,000 Compounds for Anthelmintics against Gastrointestinal Nematode Parasites. ACS Infect Dis. 2025 Jan 10; 11(1):104-120.
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Li H, Gazzola D, Hu Y, Aroian RV. An efficient method for viable cryopreservation and recovery of hookworms and other gastrointestinal nematodes in the laboratory. Int J Parasitol. 2023 07; 53(8):451-458.
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Mirza Z, Soto ER, Hu Y, Nguyen TT, Koch D, Aroian RV, Ostroff GR. Anthelmintic Activity of Yeast Particle-Encapsulated Terpenes. Molecules. 2020 Jun 27; 25(13).
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Elfawal MA, Savinov SN, Aroian RV. Drug Screening for Discovery of Broad-spectrum Agents for Soil-transmitted Nematodes. Sci Rep. 2019 08 26; 9(1):12347.
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Pan SC, Ward DV, Yin Y, Hu Y, Elfawal MA, Clark RE, Aroian RV. Cognitive and Microbiome Impacts of Experimental Ancylostoma ceylanicum Hookworm Infections in Hamsters. Sci Rep. 2019 05 27; 9(1):7868.
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Noon JB, Schwarz EM, Ostroff GR, Aroian RV. A highly expressed intestinal cysteine protease of Ancylostoma ceylanicum protects vaccinated hamsters from hookworm infection. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019 04; 13(4):e0007345.
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Hu Y, Miller M, Zhang B, Nguyen TT, Nielsen MK, Aroian RV. In vivo and in vitro studies of Cry5B and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist anthelmintics reveal a powerful and unique combination therapy against intestinal nematode parasites. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018 05; 12(5):e0006506.
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Hu Y, Nguyen TT, Lee ACY, Urban JF, Miller MM, Zhan B, Koch DJ, Noon JB, Abraham A, Fujiwara RT, Bowman DD, Ostroff GR, Aroian RV. Bacillus thuringiensis Cry5B protein as a new pan-hookworm cure. Int J Parasitol Drugs Drug Resist. 2018 08; 8(2):287-294.
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Xie Y, Hoberg EP, Yang Z, Urban JF, Yang G. Ancylostoma ailuropodae n. sp. (Nematoda: Ancylostomatidae), a new hookworm parasite isolated from wild giant pandas in Southwest China. Parasit Vectors. 2017 Jun 02; 10(1):277.