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Epidemiology and clinical aspects of Strongyloides stercoralis infection in Cambodia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: The threadworm Strongyloides stercoralis is endemic in settings where sanitary conditions are poor and where the climate is warm and humid. More than 70 tropical countries in Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Indies and Latin America ...
Khieu, Virak
core   +1 more source

Disseminated strongyloidiasis with acute kidney injury

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Scientific Research, 2017
Strongyloides stercoralis, an intestinal parasitic nematode, infects more than 100 million people worldwide. Strongyloides are unique in their ability to exist as a free-living and autoinfective cycle.
AVSSN Sridhar   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ivermectin Treatment and Sanitation Effectively Reduce Strongyloides stercoralis Infection Risk in Rural Communities in Cambodia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
BACKGROUND: Strongyloides stercoralis is the only soil-transmitted helminth with the ability to replicate within its host, leading to long-lasting and potentially fatal infections. It is ubiquitous and its worldwide prevalence has recently been estimated
Virak Khieu (236174)   +23 more
core   +1 more source

Strongyloides questions-a research agenda for the future. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The Strongyloides genus of parasitic nematodes have a fascinating life cycle and biology, but are also important pathogens of people and a World Health Organization-defined neglected tropical disease.
Bryant, A.   +85 more
core   +1 more source

StrongNet: An International Network to Improve Diagnostics and Access to Treatment for Strongyloidiasis Control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Strongyloidiasis is a disease caused by an infection with a soil-transmitted helminth that affects, according to largely varying estimates, between 30 million and 370 million people worldwide [1,2].
Tanaka, T   +155 more
core   +1 more source

Strongyloides Hyperinfection and Hypogammaglobulinemia [PDF]

open access: yesClinical and Vaccine Immunology, 2005
ABSTRACT We report strongyloides hyperinfection in two patients with generalized hypogammaglobulinemia from multiple myeloma and nephrotic syndrome, despite a significant strongyloides-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) response. In contrast to reports on animals, where human IgG was shown to be a protective antibody, our observation suggests ...
Seet, R.C.S., Lau, L.G., Tambyah, P.A.
openaire   +2 more sources

Strongyloides stercoralis is a cause of abdominal pain, diarrhea and urticaria in rural Cambodia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We document clinical manifestations of 21 patients heavily infected with S. stercoralis (more than 250 larvae in a single Baermann test) from a community in rural Cambodia, both before and three weeks after ivermectin (200 μg/kg BW, single oral dose ...
Fabian Schär   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Gastrointestinal Parasites of Free-Ranging Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) in Kathmandu: A One Health Perspective on Shared Environmental Risks. [PDF]

open access: yesVet Med Sci
Free‐ranging rhesus macaques at Kathmandu's UNESCO heritage sites exhibit a 77.1% prevalence of potentially zoonotic gastrointestinal parasites. These findings highlight significant environmental contamination and a shared exposure risk, emphasizing the critical need for integrated One Health management strategies at the urban human‐wildlife interface.
Khadka Y   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Global Prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis Infection

open access: yesPathogens, 2020
Strongyloidiasis is a common neglected tropical disease in tropical and sub-tropical climatic zones. At the worldwide level, there is high uncertainty about the strongyloidiasis burden.
Dora Buonfrate   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

A sero-epidemiological approach to explore transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The debilitating skin disease Buruli ulcer (BU) is caused by infection with Mycobacterium ulcerans. While various hypotheses on potential reservoirs and vectors of M. ulcerans exist, the mode of transmission has remained unclear.
Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy   +32 more
core   +2 more sources

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