dog hookworm

This disease, caused by dog hookworm, is particularly common on the beaches of Thailand.

Right : Dog hookworm.

Ancylostoma caninum (dog hookworm)

If humans come into contact with larvae of the dog hookworm or the cat hookworm, or of certain other hookworms that do not infect humans, the larvae may penetrate the skin.

Deworm pet dogs - canine and feline hookworms rarely develop to adulthood in humans (Ancylostoma caninum, the common dog hookworm, occasionally develops into an adult to cause eosinophilic enteritis in people), but their invasive larvae can cause an itchy rash called cutaneous larva migrans.