Background Strongyloidiasis,caused by the nematodes Strongyloides stercoralis and Strongyloides fuelleborni,is estimated to afect over 600 million individuals worldwide.The disease is endemic in Southeast Asia,where a...
Background:Strongyloidiasis,a neglected disease caused by intestinal nematodes of the genus,is endemic to tropical and subtropical areas such as Vietnam.Morphological methods only identify the genus,while DNA-molecula...
The symptoms of disseminated strongyloidiasis are not typical,and it is difficult for clinicians to identify strongyloidiasis in some non-endemic areas.We report a 70-year-old woman who was diagnosed with Guillain-Bar...
BACKGROUND Strongyloidiasis is usually a chronic infection but it can develop into a fatal disease in immunosuppressed patients.CASE SUMMARY A 68-year-old male with rheumatoid arthritis was treated with a variety of i...
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 ligh...
funded by the Italian Ministry of Health"Fondi Ricerca Corrente-L2P2"to IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital,Negrar,Verona,Italy and by funds of"Ministry of Education,University and Research(Italy)Excellence Departments 2018-2022"Project for the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine,University of Florenee,Florenee,Italy.
Background:Implementation of control programmes for Strongyloides stercoralis infection is among the targets of the World Health Organization Roadmap to 2030.Aim ofthis work was to evaluate the possible impact in term...
Background:Despite the high prevalence of strongyloidiasis in the Laotian population,Laotian hospitals still lack diagnostic capacity to appropriately diagnose Strongyloides stercoralis infections.This cross-sectional...
Strongyloidiasis is an intestinal infection caused by the parasitic nematodes of the Strongyloides species,most commonly Strongyloides stercoralis.We report a case of a 66-year-old immigrant male from Haiti who presen...
Background:Strongyloidiasis is a gastrointestinal infection caused by the parasitic nematode Strongyloides stercorolis.It is estimated to infea up to 370 million people globally and is predominately found in tropical ...
Animal models and clinical studies have shown that helminth infections exert immunomodulatory activity,altering intestinal permeability and providing a potential beneficial action on autoimmune and inflammatory disord...