Vol. 9, Special Issue 5, Part D (2024)

Hookworm infection is one of the most common neglected tropical parasitic zoonoses. Stray dogs act as foci of infection to the pet animals and human beings especially children through contaminated soil with hookworm eggs or infective larvae. Ancylostoma caninum causes esoniophilic enteritis and iron-deficiency anaemia in human beings. A. braziliense is one of the most common etiological agents for cutaneous larval migrans in human beings in tropical regions with poor sanitary measures. Regardless of this, the present study was aimed to assess the permissibility of hamsters for research studies on public health important canine hookworms namely, A. caninum and A. braziliense. The research showed hamsters can be used for research study involving A. caninum but not for A.braziliense. Most of the infective larvae of A. braziliense were arrested in the visceral organs. However, very few of A. caninum larvae undergone complete development in the intestinal mucosa of infected hamsters on 35 days post infection.