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Hookworm-Related Research Articles

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Hookworm vaccines: past, present, and future.
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, November 2006, Volume 6, Issue 11, Pp733-741. Alex Loukas, Jeffrey Bethony, Simon Brooker and Peter Hotez.
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Vaccines: Hookworm Vaccines
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 15 January 2008, Vol.46, No. 2: pp. 282-288. David J. Diermert, Jeffrey M. Bethondy ,Peter J. Hotez
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Vaccine Development & Immunology

X-ray structures of Na-GST-1 and Na-GST-2 two glutathione s-transferase from the human hookworm Necator americanus BMC Structural Biology 2007, 7:42. Oluwatoyin A Asojo, Kohei Homma, Meghan Sedlacek, Michelle Ngamelue, Gaddam N Goud, Bin Zhan, Vehid Deumic, Oluyomi Asojo and Peter J Hotez
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Vaccination with irradiated Ancylostoma caninum third stage larvae induces a Th2 protective response in dogs.
Vaccine
2006, 24(4):501-9.  Fujiwara RT, Loukas A, Mendez S, Williamson AL, Bueno LL, Wang Y, et al. 
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Ancylostoma caninum MTP-1, an astacin-like metalloprotease secreted by infective hookworm larvae, is involved in tissue  migration.
Infect Immun 2006 Feb; 74(2):961-7.  Williamson AL, Lustigman S, Oksov Y, Deumic V, Plieskatt J, Mendez S, et al.
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Policy

The Antipoverty Vaccines.
Vaccine 2006 July; 24 (31-2): 5787-99.  Epub 2006 May 17.  Hotez P, Ferris MT.
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Fighting Tropical Diseases.
Science 17 March 2006; 311(5767):1521.  Sachs JD, Hotez PJ.
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Incorporating a Rapid-Impact Package for Neglected Tropical Diseases with Programs for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
PLoS Med 2006; 3(5): e102.  Hotez PJ, Molyneux DH, Fenwick A, Ottesen E, Ehrlich Sachs S, et al.
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