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Clinical presentation and diagnosis of imported strongyloidiasis at a tertiary hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
Background: Since Strongyloides can persist in its host for decades, and cause life threatening infections data on prevalence, the burden and risk factors for infection is crucial in migrant populations.
Ana Requena-Méndez, Emilia Roos, Suzanne D. van der Werff, Katja Wyss, Leigh Davidsson, Pontus Naucler, Anna Färnert, Hilmir Asgeirsson   +7 more
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A Practical Approach to Screening for Strongyloides stercoralis

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021
Strongyloides stercoralis, causative agent of a neglected tropical disease, is a soil-transmitted helminth which may cause lifelong persisting infection due to continuous autoinfection.
Luisa Carnino, Jean-Marc Schwob, Laurent Gétaz, Beatrice Nickel, Andreas Neumayr, Gilles Eperon   +5 more
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Seroprevalence of <i>Strongyloides stercoralis</i> Infection and Its Risk Factors in Pregnant Women Referred to Al-Zahra Hospital in Guilan Province, North Part of Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study From 2024 to 2025. [PDF]

J Parasitol Res
Background In immunocompromised individuals, strongyloidiasis may progress to hyperinfection syndrome or disseminated disease. To date, the death of a pregnant woman infected with Strongyloides stercoralis has been reported. Chronic cases carry a risk of malnutrition, especially among vulnerable populations like pregnant women and children.
Sorouri Majd M, Kia EB, Sharami SH, Mohebali M, Jafari A, Latifi R, Fakhrieh-Kashan Z.   +6 more
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StrongNet: An International Network to Improve Diagnostics and Access to Treatment for Strongyloidiasis Control [PDF]

, 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, Sayasone, S, Montresor, A., Cooper, P, Page, W, Castel, M, Gétaz, L, Savioli, L, Peter Odermatt, Saboya, M, Beatrice Barda, Montresor, Antonio, Albonico, M, Sheorey, H, Albonico, M., Forrer, A, Brattig, N, Barda, B, Requena-Méndez, A, Gombe-Goetz, S, Lieshout, L. van, Montresor, A, Utzinger, J, Mariella Anselmi, Virak Khieu, de los Santos, JJ, Sevcsik, AM, Buonfrate, Dora, Utzinger, J., Becker, S.L., Steinmann, Peter, Nickel, B, Gomez, J, Olsen, A, Getaz, L., Caumes, E, Becker, SL, Bisoffi, Z, Bartoloni, A, Buonfrate, D, Knopp, S, Visser, L, Muñoz Gutiérrez, José, Becker, Sören L, Phongluxa, K, Arancha Amor, Mena, MA, Raso, G, Vercruysse, J, Lammie, P, Marlais, T, Marco Albonico, Marti, H, Bisoffi, Z., Magnussen, P, Perandin, F, Streit, A, Angheben, A., Richard Speare, Jürg Utzinger, Muñoz, José, Steinmann, P., Ferrero, L, Gétaz, Laurent, Ana Requena-Méndez, Calleri, G, Colli, E, Verdonck, K, Guevara, A, Periago, MV, Amor, Arancha, Becker, Sören L., van Lieshout, Lisette, Kotze, A, Lisette van Lieshout, Keiser, Jennifer, Amor, A, Anselmi, Mariella, Marcos, L, Einsiedel, L, Miles, M, Jennifer Keiser, Bradbury, R, Utzinger, Jürg, Muñoz, J, Polman, K, Gobbi, F, Formenti, F, Odermatt, P, Munoz, J., Steer, A, Anselmi, M., Antonio Montresor, Weber, C, Speare, R, Requena-Mendez, A., Bottieau, E, Vonghachack, Y, Savioli, L., Khieu, V., Albonico, Marco, Arandes, AS, Bisoffi, Zeno, Molina, I, Speare, R., Seixas, J, Mueller, A, Angheben, A, Khieu, Virak, Angheben, Andrea, Cooper, Phillip, Mejia, R, Bottazzi, ME, Laurent Gétaz, Lorenzo Savioli, Keiser, J, McCarthy, J, van Lieshout, L, Cooper, Philip, Shield, J, Peter Steinmann, StrongNet Working Group, Luchanez, A, José Muñoz, Amor, A., Krolewiecki, A, Schär, F, Andrea Angheben, StrongNet Working Grp, Khieu, V, Cooper, P., Muth, S, Kearns, T, Barda, B., Lieshout, Lisette van, Buonfrate, D., Mertens, P, Speare, Richard, Savioli, Lorenzo, Odermatt, P., Keiser, J., Odermatt, Peter, Steinmann, P, Nutman, T, Zeno Bisoffi, Requena-Méndez, Ana, Gotuzzo, E, Sören L Becker, Anselmi, M, Neumayr, A, Yajima, A, Dora Buonfrate, Zammarchi, L, Chiodini, PL, Barda, Beatrice, Philip Cooper   +155 more
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Fatal Strongyloides stercoralis hyper-infection in a patient with multiple myeloma

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2010
Strongyloides stercoralis (S.S.) is a human intestinal parasite, which may lead to complicated strongyloidiasis. We report a case of disseminated strongyloidiasis following the treatment of myeloma.
Mohamed A. Yassin, MD, Halima El Omri, MD, Ibrahim Al-Hijji, MD, Ruba Taha, MD, Reham Hassan, MD, Kamal Al Aboudi, MD, Hanadi El-Ayoubi, MD   +6 more
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The Global Prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis Infection

Pathogens, 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, Donal Bisanzio, Giovanni Giorli, Peter Odermatt, Thomas Fürst, Christina Greenaway, Michael French, Richard Reithinger, Federico Gobbi, Antonio Montresor, Zeno Bisoffi   +10 more
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High prevalence and spatial distribution of Strongyloides stercoralis in rural Cambodia [PDF]

, 2014
The threadworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, endemic in tropical and temperate climates, is a neglected tropical disease. Its diagnosis requires specific methods, and accurate information on its geographic distribution and global burden are lacking.
Fabian Schär (280371), Hanspeter Marti, Sinuon Muth, Jan Hattendorf (113923), Socheat Duong (130761), Penelope Vounatsou, Peter Odermatt, Duong, Socheat, Hanspeter Marti (224864), Armelle Forrer, Virak Khieu (236174), Virak Khieu, Schär, Fabian, Sinuon Muth (251084), Odermatt, Peter, Muth, Sinuon, Khieu, Virak, Forrer, Armelle, Penelope Vounatsou (49253), Fabian Schär, Marti, Hanspeter, Peter Odermatt (148926), Socheat Duong, Hattendorf, Jan, Vounatsou, Penelope, Armelle Forrer (183487), Jan Hattendorf   +26 more
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Strongyloides stercoralis is a cause of abdominal pain, diarrhea and urticaria in rural Cambodia [PDF]

, 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, Peter Odermatt, Marti, Hanspeter, Virak Khieu, Schär, Fabian, Srey, Sophanaroth, Sinuon Muth, Hanspeter Marti, Sophanaroth Srey, Odermatt, Peter, Muth, Sinuon, Khieu, Virak   +11 more
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A Rare Presentation of Strongyloides stercoralis Infection from an Immunocompetent Individual in a Tertiary Care Center in South India

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2022
Strongyloidiasis is a neglected parasitic disease caused by the intestinal parasite, Strongyloides stercoralis. Most patients with strongyloidiasis are asymptomatic, but few present with varied clinical manifestations such as cutaneous, gastrointestinal,
S.S. Jaya Lakshmi, Anusha Gopinathan, K.V. Leela   +2 more
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Intestinal strongyloidiasis and hyperinfection syndrome [PDF]

, 2006
In spite of recent advances with experiments on animal models, strongyloidiasis, an infection caused by the nematode parasite Strongyloides stercoralis, has still been an elusive disease.
Raja S Vadlamudi, Vadlamudi, Raja, Chi, David S., Guha Krishnaswamy, Krishnaswamy, Guha, Krishnaswamy Guha, Chi David S, David S Chi, Vadlamudi Raja S   +8 more
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