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Strongyloides stercoralis: systematic review of barriers to controlling strongyloidiasis for Australian indigenous communities.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014
BackgroundStrongyloides stercoralis infects human hosts mainly through skin contact with contaminated soil. The result is strongyloidiasis, a parasitic disease, with a unique cycle of auto-infection causing a variety of symptoms and signs, with possible ...
Adrian Miller, Michelle L Smith, Jenni A Judd, Rick Speare   +3 more
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High prevalence of S. Stercoralis infection among patients with Chagas disease: A retrospective case-control study.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018
BackgroundWe evaluate the association between Trypanosoma cruzi infection and strongyloidiasis in a cohort of Latin American (LA) migrants screened for both infections in a non-endemic setting.MethodologyCase-control study including LA individuals who ...
Pedro Puerta-Alcalde, Joan Gomez-Junyent, Ana Requena-Mendez, Maria Jesús Pinazo, Miriam José Álvarez-Martínez, Natalia Rodríguez, Joaquim Gascon, Jose Muñoz   +7 more
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Clinical Characteristics of Disseminated Strongyloidiasis, Japan, 1975–2017

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
Clinical characteristics of disseminated strongyloidiasis, the severest form of strongyloidiasis, are not well described. We conducted a retrospective, consecutive chart review of patients with disseminated strongyloidiasis admitted to Okinawa Chubu ...
Mitsuru Mukaigawara, Masashi Narita, Soichi Shiiki, Yoshihiro Takayama, Shunichi Takakura, Tomokazu Kishaba   +5 more
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Chylous Ascites as the Main Clinical Symptom of a Strongyloides stercoralis Infection in an Immigrant from Bosnia-Herzegovina

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2022
Extraintestinal strongyloidiasis is rare in patients without immunosuppression. We describe the first case of chylous ascites as a result of strongyloidiasis.
Lukas Antonitsch, Daniela Penz, Arnulf Ferlitsch   +2 more
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Adult T‐cell leukemia/lymphoma in French Guiana (1990–2019): Epidemiology, clinical features, and HTLV‐1 genetic diversity in the two main ethnic populations

International Journal of Cancer, Volume 158, Issue 6, Page 1528-1540, 15 March 2026.
What's new? Adult T‐cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) is a rare and aggressive malignancy caused by human T‐cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV‐1). The authors comprehensively analyzed the epidemiological and clinical features of ATL over a 30‐year period in French Guiana, a region with high HTLV‐1 endemicity and a multiethnic population.
Jill‐Léa Ramassamy, Patricia Tortevoye, Balthazar Ntab, Gabriel Carles, Jean‐Pierre Droz, Pierre Couppié, Giovanni Begliomini, Jean‐Francois Carod, N'detodji‐Bill Wankpo, Karim Abdelmoumen, Philippe V. Afonso, Olivier Cassar, Antoine Talarmin, Olivier Hermine, Loïc Epelboin, Ambroise Marçais, Antoine Gessain   +16 more
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Serodiagnosis and early detection of Strongyloides stercoralis infection

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection, 2019
Strongyloidiasis is a major neglected tropical disease with the potential of causing lifelong infection and mortality. One of the ways for effective control of this disease is developing improved diagnostics, particularly using serological approaches.
Norsyahida Arifin, Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah, Hussain Ahmad, Rahmah Noordin   +3 more
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Helminths as architects of trained tolerance: implications for human health

Clinical &Translational Immunology, Volume 15, Issue 3, 2026.
Abstract Helminths infect nearly 2 billion people worldwide and are a major cause of chronic morbidity in low‐resource regions. Unlike bacterial and viral pathogens that elicit protective memory, helminths actively remodel host immunity to enable their years‐long persistence and reinfection.
Quinn Moroz, Jorge Lucas Nascimento Souza, Neima Briggs   +2 more
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Fatal Strongyloides stercoralis hyper-infection in a patient with multiple myeloma

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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, Halima El Omri, Ibrahim Al-Hijji, Ruba Taha, Reham Hassan, Kamal Al Aboudi, Hanadi El-Ayoubi   +6 more
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Patent Human Infections with the Whipworm, Trichuris trichiura, Are Not Associated with Alterations in the Faecal Microbiota [PDF]

, 2013
Background: The soil-transmitted helminth (STH), Trichuris trichiura colonises the human large intestine where it may modify inflammatory responses, an effect possibly mediated through alterations in the intestinal microbiota.
A Olsen, AJ Bancroft, AL Kau, AL Moncayo, Alan W. Walker, AW Walker, C De Filippo, C Quince, CA Figueiredo, DA Bundy, EG Zoetendal, EK Costello, GD Wu, H Sokol, J Bethony, J Maukonen, JL Shin, Jorge Reyes, JS Crowther, Julian Parkhill, KS Hayes, LC Rodrigues, LS Mansfield, M Reina Ortiz, Maritza Vaca, Martha Chico, MI Bahl, MJ Broadhurst, MP Bryant, N Segata, P Endara, P Steinmann, PB Eckburg, PD Schloss, Philip Cooper, RW Li, RW Li, RW Summers, RW Summers, S Wu, ST Walk, Stefan Bereswill, Susannah J. Salter, T Yatsunenko, TT MacDonald, VB Young, Y Suputtamongkol   +46 more
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Steroid-induced Strongyloidiasis with Cholestasis Post-COVID-19 Pneumonia

Oman Medical Journal, 2023
The use of immunosuppressive agents has recently been raised during the COVID-19 pandemic to manage the COVID-19-induced systemic inflammatory response and improve mortality.
Noora Al Busaidi, Fatma Al Farsi, Huda Al Batashi, Masoud Salim Kashoub, Ahmed Al Sinani, Zakariya Al Balushi, Faryal Khamis   +6 more
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