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Strongyloides Meningitis

Southern Medical Journal, 1987
Acute pyogenic meningitis occurred in a 46-year-old woman receiving long-term steroid therapy. Cultures for bacteria and fungi were negative, and the meningitis failed to respond to broad spectrum antibiotics. Abundant Strongyloides stercoralis larvae were found in the patient's feces a sputum, and a filariform larva was found in a hanging drop ...
A, Belani, D, Leptrone, J W, Shands
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AN OVERWHELMING STRONGYLOIDES INFECTION

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1958
Although infections with Strongyloides stercoralis are usually mild, they can be severe1and sometimes fatal.2The patient reported in this paper is of interest for several reasons. First, she had a massive Strongyloides infection, complicated by a terminal Escherichia coli septicemia and meningitis.
H W, BROWN, V P, PERNA
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Strongyloides stercoralis Autoinfection

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1971
To the Editor.— A case of asymptomatic Strongyloides stercoralis autoinfection with marked eosinophilia appeared in a patient absent from endemic areas for 23 years. Report of a Case.— A 37-year-old Puerto Rican man had departed from Puerto Rico at age 14 years, and has lived continuously in New York city since.
M S, Stern, G, Joshpe
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Strongyloides stercoralis

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1990
Strongyloides stercoralis is a common nematode causing helminthic infections in humans. Strongyloidiasis is principally distributed in the tropics and subtropics. In the United States, a prevalence of 0.4% to 4% has been estimated in southeastern states.
Deborah J. Zygmunt, Charles W. Stratton
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Strongyloides stercoralis infection

BMJ, 2013
#### Summary points Strongyloides stercoralis is an intestinal helminth that infects humans through contact with soil containing the larvae. Between 30 and 100 million people are infected worldwide.1 In the United Kingdom, strongyloidiasis is seen predominantly in migrants and returning travellers from endemic areas in the tropics and subtropics ...
Daniel, Greaves   +4 more
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Strongyloides sp.: Strongyloides stercoralis (Bavay 1876) and Strongyloides fuelleborni (Von Linstow 1905)

1995
Strongyloides stercoralis is an intestinal nematode found throughout the tropical and subtropical world. It is also present in certain temperate zones, including North America where it has been reported with a high frequency among Southeast Asian immigrants and in parts of Appalachia.1,3 Dogs and nonhuman primates can harbor Strongyloides, and there ...
Dickson D. Despommier   +2 more
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The biology and genomics of Strongyloides

Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 2006
Parasitic nematodes are widespread and important pathogens of humans and other animals. The parasitic nematodes Strongyloides have an unusual life cycle in which there is a facultative free-living generation in addition to the obligate parasitic generation.
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