TY - JOUR AU - FOSTER, A. O. AB - ON A PROBABLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANEMIA AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO HOOKWORM INFECTION. B Y A. O. FOSTERS (Eeceived for publication April 10, 1936.) An understanding of resistance to metazoan infections has been encouragingly approached through the isolation of individual factors which affect the balance between resistance and susceptibility in particular host-parasite combinations. In the case of the relationship of the dog to its hookworm parasite, Ancylostoma caninum, there has been summarized elsewhere (Poster, 1935) a considerable body of evidence which emphasizes the importance in this respect of such factors as age of host, diet, genetic constitution, degree of infestation, and pathogenicity of parasite. As a working hypothesis it was sug- gested that factors which militate against a host's well-being are factors which render that host more susceptible to the invasion of hookworms. In this report it is desired to present briefly the results of ex- perimental studies with two additional factors, namely, periodic blood loss and a milk (iron-deficient) diet, both of which were observed to render dogs and cats more susceptible to parasitism with A. cani- num. Although these factors were the subjects of separate experi- mental studies, and are treated as such in the following pages, it is TI - ON A PROBABLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANEMIA AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO HOOKWORM INFECTION1 JF - American Journal of Epidemiology DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a118243 DA - 1936-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/on-a-probable-relationship-between-anemia-and-susceptibility-to-EHyYaxq0Um SP - 109 EP - 126 VL - 24 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -