FURTHER INFORMATION

Basic Hookworm Information

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. “Parasites & Health: Hookworm”

http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Hookworm.htm

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: “Fact Sheet: Hookworm

Infection"

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/hookworm/factsht_hookworm.htm

National Library of Medicine, National Insitute of Health, Hookworm

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000629.htm

Hookworm Vaccine

Sabin Vaccine Institute: Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative

http://www.who.int/vaccine_research/diseases/soa_parasitic/en/index2.html

WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research (IVR): Hookworm Disease

http://www.who.int/vaccine_research/diseases/soa_parasitic/en/index2.html

Instituto Butantan

http://www.butantan.gov.br/

Key Researchers

Peter Hotez M.D., Ph.D.

President, Sabin Vaccine Institute

mtmpjh@gwumc.edu

Ami Brown Ph.D., M.P.D.

Program Operation Officer of the Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative

ami.brown@sabin.org

 


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