Table 1 Epidemiology of zoonotic hookworm infections in humans
Country | Zoonotic hookworm species | Key epidemiological findings | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
India | Ancylostoma ceylanicum | 5% (2/41) of individuals were infected in tribal populations of Jawadhu Hills, Tamil Nadu | George et al. (2015) |
Timor Leste | Ancylostoma ceylanicum | 95.5% (21/22) of the samples assessed were positive using qPCR | Papaiakovou et al. (2017) |
Bangladesh | Ancylostoma ceylanicum | 3.8% (106/2799) of individuals tested harbored the infection | Benjamin-Chung et al. (2020) |
Bangladesh | Ancylostoma ceylanicum | 4.63% (30/648) of the individuals tested harbored the infection | Dunn et al. (2020) |
Cambodia | Ancylostoma ceylanicum | 46.0% (57/124) of the participants from Preah Vihear Province were infected | |
Cambodia | Ancylostoma ceylanicum | 12.67% (19/151) of the participants were infected | Colella et al. (2021b) |
Philippines | Ancylostoma ceylanicum | 26.6% (34/128) of the positive samples for Ancylostoma spp. were speciated | Aula et al. (2020) |
Vietnam | Ancylostoma ceylanicum | 52.1% (25/48) of the participants tested were infected | Bui et al. (2021) |
Thailand | Ancylostoma ceylanicum | 10% (3/30) of the cultured samples from the Northeast and Southern regions that tested were molecularly speciated | Phosuk et al. (2013) |
Thailand | Ancylostoma ceylanicum | 5.3% (97/1839) of the Burmese refugees that were assessed were infected | O’Connell et al. (2018) |
Brazil | Ancylostoma caninum | 1.9% (12/634) of the hookworm-positive samples were speciated | Furtado et al. (2020) |
India | Ancylostoma caninum | 16.8% (20/119) of hookworm-positive fecal samples were speciated | George et al. (2016) |
Jamaica | Ancylostoma caninum | 22.1% (17/77) of the human stool samples were infected | Lee et al. (2022) |
South Africa | Ancylostoma caninum | 6% (3/50) of the stool samples were determined to be infected using sequencing analysis | Ngcamphalala et al. (2019) |
Lao PDR | Ancylostoma caninum | 15% (3/20) of the hookworm positive samples that were sequenced were speciated | Sato et al. (2010) |