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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 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 stercoralis and Strongyloidosis
2014Strongyloidosis is a chronic, soil-transmitted, intestinal parasitic disease. Strongyloides stercoralis is a roundworm and the main causative agent of this disease. S. stercoralis has a unique life cycle, which consists of direct (homogonic) development and indirect (heterogonic) development.
Korenaga M., Bruschi F
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Disseminated Strongyloides stercoralis Infection
Southern Medical Journal, 1991A case of disseminated S stercoralis is an immunosuppressed patient manifested with diarrhea, a rash, and progressive respiratory insufficiency. The parasites were eradicated with thiabendazole despite continued steroid therapy, and the patient survived the hospitalization.
W G, Simpson +2 more
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Strongyloides stercoralis and the immune response
Parasitology International, 2010The immune system is a highly evolved network of cells and molecules that can distinguish between invading pathogens and the body's own cells. But helminths, in their complex forms, are capable of down-regulating host immunity, protecting them from being eliminated and also minimizing severe pathology in the host.
Nnaemeka C, Iriemenam +3 more
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Arthritis Associated with Strongyloides stercoralis
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1990A case of reactive arthritis combined with uveitis associated with a longstanding and heavy infestation with Strongyloides stercoralis is reported in a 32-year-old HTLV-1 positive West Indian man. Stool examination revealed numerous adult worms and larvae. Treatment with thiabendazole and ivermectin resulted in prompt improvement.
O, Patey +5 more
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Syndrome of Hyperinfection with Strongyloides stercoralis
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1981Two patients hyperinfected with Strongyloides stercoralis (an intestinal nematode) are described. Both were both in Puerto Rico and had left the island six to 15 years previously; both were receiving adrenal steroids (one for Hodgkin's disease and the other for Goodpasture's syndrome).
Y, Igra-Siegman +4 more
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Strongyloides stercoralis Hyperinfection
New England Journal of Medicine, 2017A 47-year-old man who had lived in Laos and was taking prednisone for dermatomyositis presented with hemoptysis, rash, abdominal pain, and melena. He was found to have Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection syndrome.
Heidi H, McDonald, Milton, Moore
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Eosinophilic Endocarditis and Strongyloides stercoralis
The American Journal of Cardiology, 2013A 40-year-old woman from El Salvador presented with 3 months of abdominal pain and diarrhea followed by 2 weeks of atypical chest pain and exertional dyspnea and was diagnosed with eosinophilic endocarditis secondary to Strongyloides stercoralis infection.
Jeremy, Thaden +6 more
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Strongyloides stercoralis Choroiditis
JAMA OphthalmologyThis case report describes a patient whose autopsy revealed that the posterior choroid of the right eye had a focal eosinophil-rich inflammatory infiltrate with a cross-section of a possible degenerating Strongyloides stercoralis larva and a coiled, incompletely sectioned, filariform larva in a medium-caliber choroidal artery.
Madelynn, Corda +2 more
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