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Strongyloidiasis

Nature Reviews Disease Primers
Strongyloidiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused primarily by the roundworm Strongyloides stercoralis. Strongyloidiasis is most prevalent in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Although cases have been documented worldwide, global prevalence is largely unknown due to limited surveillance.
Tobin EH, Meseeha M.
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Association between footwear use and neglected tropical diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014
BACKGROUND The control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has primarily focused on preventive chemotherapy and case management. Less attention has been placed on the role of ensuring access to adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene and personal ...
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Strongyloidiasis [PDF]

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2019
Most of the 30 to 100 million people infected with Strongyloides stercoralis have subclinical (or asymptomatic) infections. These infections are commonly chronic and longstanding.
Alejandro Javier Krolewiecki, Thomas B Nutman   +1 more
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Regulatory T Cell Expansion in HTLV-1 and Strongyloidiasis Co-infection Is Associated with Reduced IL-5 Responses to Strongyloides stercoralis Antigen [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2009
Human strongyloidiasis varies from a chronic but limited infection in normal hosts to hyperinfection in patients treated with corticosteroids or with HTLV-1 co-infection. Regulatory T cells dampen immune responses to infections.
Cesar Sanchez, Kristien Verdonck, Angelica Terashima   +2 more
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Surveillance of strongyloidiasis in Spanish in-patients (1998–2014)

PLoS ONE, 2017
BackgroundStrongyloides stercoralis is a parasite that causes strongyloidiasis, a neglected tropical disease. S. stercoralis is a soil-transmitted helminth that is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the world.
Moncef Belhassen-García, Montserrat Alonso-Sardón, Cristina Carranza-Rodríguez   +2 more
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Evaluating the effectiveness and sustainability of a primary healthcare strategy to reduce the prevalence of strongyloidiasis in endemically infected Indigenous communities in Northern Australia. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BackgroundStrongyloidiasis is endemic in many remote Indigenous communities in Australia. Early diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of chronic strongyloidiasis can prevent life-threatening clinical complications and decrease transmission in these endemic
Wendy A Page, David Blair, Karen Dempsey, Beverley-Ann Biggs, Jenni A Judd   +4 more
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Strongyloidiasis associated with severe anemia: A case report in Taiwan

Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023
Strongyloidiasis is caused by infection with the helminth, Strongyloides stercoralis. The life cycle of S. stercoralis in the host could last decades owing to autoinfection.
Chia-Wei Chang, Ling-Yuan Lee, Jung-Chung Lin, Kuo-Yang Huang   +3 more
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Strongyloides stercoralis: A Neglected but Fatal Parasite

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
Strongyloidiasis is a disease caused by Strongyloides stercoralis and remains a neglected tropical infection despite significant public health concerns. Challenges in the management of strongyloidiasis arise from wide ranging clinical presentations, lack
Viravarn Luvira, Tanaya Siripoon, Danabhand Phiboonbanakit, Kollawat Somsri, Dorn Watthanakulpanich, Paron Dekumyoy   +5 more
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A case of Strongyloides Stercoralis induced duodenitis and pancreatitis

IDCases, 2022
Strongyloidiasis is endemic in tropical and sub-tropical regions however cases of strongyloidiasis have been reported in temperate climates. Corticosteroid use, immunosuppression, infection with human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV1), and chronic ...
U. Khan, G. Tchomobe, S. Vakharia, M. Suryadevara, S. Nagarakanti   +4 more
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Strongyloidiasis: the most neglected tropical disease in Ethiopia

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2021
Background Strongyloidiasis is the most neglected of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The aim of this commentary is to describe the possible reasons why strongyloidiasis is so overlooked in Ethiopia, and shed light on better ways of control and ...
Abebaw Tiruneh, Endalew Zemene, Zeleke Mekonnen   +2 more
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