TY - JOUR AU - Lilley, Bruce AU - Lammie, Patrick AU - Dickerson, Jennifer AU - Eberhard, Mark T1 - An Increase in Hookworm Infection Temporally Associated With Ecologic Change T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 1997 VL - 3 IS - 3 SP - 391 SN - 1080-6059 AB - This report describes a significant increase in the prevalence of hookworm infection in an area of Haiti where intestinal parasites are common, but hookworm has not been common. Changing environmental conditions, specifically deforestation and subsequent silting of a local river, have caused periodic flooding with deposition of a layer of sandy loam topsoil and increased soil moisture. We speculate that these conditions, conducive to transmission of the infection, have allowed hookworm to reemerge as an important human pathogen. KW - United States KW - Haiti DO - 10.3201/eid0303.970321 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/3/3/97-0321_article ER - End of Reference