ABSTRACT
A. braziliense, a hookworm of dogs and cats, and A. caninum, a hookworm of dogs, cause cutaneous larva migrans (‘creeping eruption’) which results from invasion of the skin by the filariform larvae of hookworms of dogs or cats (not humans). In human hosts, the infective larvae cannot complete their normal life cycle but persist subcutaneously without further development, causing tunnel-like migrating erythemas with severe pruritis.
