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<journal-id>2524-177X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista médica del Hospital General de México]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. med. Hosp. Gen. Méx.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2524-177X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Sociedad Médica del Hospital General de México A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S2524-177X2019000400215</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24875/hgmx.m19000032</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Severe iron anemia deficiency caused by hookworm: Case report and literature review]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Giraldo-Forero]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Julio C.]]></given-names>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Muñoz-Niño]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Laura A.]]></given-names>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Coronado-Castiblanco]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Karen V.]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,INCCA University Colombia  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Bogotá ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Military University Nueva Granada School of Medicine ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Bogotá ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Military University Nueva Granada Infectious Diseases Research Seedbed, School of Medicine ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Bogotá ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>82</volume>
<numero>4</numero>
<fpage>215</fpage>
<lpage>220</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2524-177X2019000400215&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2524-177X2019000400215&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2524-177X2019000400215&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ Background: Hookworms, cosmopolitan geohelmintiasis by Ancylostoma duodenale, and Necator americanus infect more than 1 billion people.  Objective: The aim of this study was to present a clinical case of severe iron anemia and literature review report.  Materials and methods: This was a descriptive study with a review of the clinical history and literature.  Results: A 19-year-old patient, who was referred to the Hospital Militar Central, presented with paraclinical signs showing severe anemia; abdominal pain for 3 weeks, with emesis and fetid liquid stools, with mucus, without blood, asthenia, adynamia, and feeling light-headed; generalized asymptomatic physical examination with pallor, tachycardia, and with the presence of low intensity systolic murmur in the aortic focus. He was diagnosed with severe microcytic hypochromic heterogeneous anemia with a probable ferropenic origin. He got a transfusion of red blood cells and was managed with o-meprazole, ferrous sulfate, and albendazole.  Conclusion: In Colombia, the prevalence of hookworms is 13%, iron deficiency, 4.9%, and iron deficiency anemia in school children, 0.6%.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Hookworms]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Ancylostoma duodenale]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Necator americanus]]></kwd>
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