BACKGROUND Strongyloides sterocoralis is a parasitic infection caused by a roundworm that is transmitted through soil contaminated with larvae.It can infrequently cause hepatic abscesses in immunocompromised patients ...
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...
Rationale: Strongyloides stercoralis (S. stercoralis) is an intestinal nematode with a complicated life cycle that can involve the gastrointestinal system. Infected patients are generally asymptomatic;but if symptomat...
funded by University of Malaya,PPP grant(PG040-2014A);Fundamental Research Grant Scheme(FRGS)from Ministry of Higher Education(FP015-2014B);UM/MoHE High Impact Research Grant(UM.C/625/1/HIR/MOHE/MED/23);Universiti Sains Malaysia,Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education grant(HICoE 311/CIPPM/4401005)
Objective: To investigate the status of Strongyloides(S.) stercoralis infections among migrant workers in Malaysia for the first time and identify risk factors.Methods: Four diagnostic methods were employed for the de...
This study is funded as part of the COUNTDOWN research programme consortium,by the Research and Evidence Division of the Department for International Development,UK;The funders had no role in study design,decision to publish,or preparation of the manuscript。
Background:The crater lakes of Barombi Mbo and Barombi Kotto are well-known transmission foci of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis having had several important control initiatives previously.To collec...
Strongyloides stercoralis,a soil transmitted helminth infection,affects millions with varying prevalence worldwide.A large number of affected hosts are asymptomatic.Symptoms pertaining to pulmonary and gastrointestina...
Supported in part by a grant from the Louis Albert Foundation;Tolosa;Argentina(Grant No.G06 LM008655)
Objective:To communicate the presence of adult females,rabditoid larvae and eggs of Strongyloides stercoralis(S.stercoralis)in the respiratory secretions obtained by tracheal aspirate from a HIV-negative patient who w...
supported by Research Deputy of Hormozgan University of Medical Science(grant No.90/108/1977)
Objective:To determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among mentally retarded residents of rehabilitation center of Bandar Abbas,Hormozgan province,southern Iran.Methods:A cross-sectional study was ...
Supported by Scientific Research Fund for Education Departmentof the the School of Medicine-Buenos Aires University(No:J500798759)
A case of pulmonary coinfection by Strongyloides stercoralis and Pneumocystis jiroveci has been detected in an AIDS patient treated in the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit of the Muniz Hospital.At diagnosis,the patient...