What is "hookworm"

Usage examples of "hookworm".

Fortunately, I had an adequate supply of a vermicide, normal butyl chloride, in liquid form, that I mixed with mineral oil and administered by stomach tube, causing the dogs to expel hookworms by the thousands.

Because Bebe was not going to be able to furnish enough blood for all the dogs that would come in with heavy infestations of hookworms, I had Ski round up several of the boonie dogs that were running wild and kept them in our camp.

I examined the dogs as they returned and found that all of them were heavily infested with hookworms and heartworms, as expected.

In short, I found myself wide awake in my corner, with the whole assemblage of hookworms gazing at me with astonishment.

Hookworms, tapeworms, pinworms, typhoid, cholera, dysentery, diarrhoea, hepatitis, salmonella and dozens of other diseases have been attributed to the house fly.

You got to be make hills,” she stated, then turned on her heel and went in the house to help my mother slosh Clorox water across the floor to kill the hookworms.

The animals were simply the vehicles to carry God's most precious creations, you see: the flea, the hookworm, the body louse, the intestinal parasite, the polio virus, and the dysentery bacterium.

For some years Eucalyptus-chloroform was employed as one of the remedies in the tropics for hookworm, but it has now been almost universally abandoned as an inefficient anthelmintic, Chenopodium Oil having become the recognized remedy.

But for physical effort on the bug's own part, the prize still goes to worms such as hookworms and schistosomes, which actively burrow through a host's skin from the water or soil into which their larvae had been excreted in a previous victim's feces.

But for physical effort on the bug’s own part, the prize still goes to worms such as hookworms and schistosomes, which actively burrow through a host’s skin from the water or soil into which their larvae had been excreted in a previous victim’s feces.