ALLMedicine™ Strongyloidiasis Center

Nov 30th, 2021 - Strongyloidiasis, a neglected tropical disease (NTD), which is caused by Strongyloides stercoralis, can be fatal in immunocompromised patients. In most chronic cases, infections most frequently are asymptomatic, and eosinophilia might be the only ...

Nov 11th, 2021 - Strongyloidiasis represents a major medical and veterinary helminthic disease. Human infection is caused by Strongyloides stercoralis, Strongyloides fuelleborni fuelleborni and Strongyloides fuelleborni kellyi, with S.stercoralis accounting for th...

Oct 28th, 2021 - Detection of IgG in urine is an efficient method comparable to that in serum for diagnosis of strongyloidiasis but effects of daily variation in urine dilution on diagnostic accuracy is not clearly known. This study evaluated effects of urine conc...

Oct 19th, 2021 - Human strongyloidiasis is one of the neglected tropical diseases caused by infection with soil-transmitted helminth Strongyloides stercoralis. Conventional stool examination, a method commonly used for diagnosis of S. stercoralis, has low sensitiv...

Sep 29th, 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread use of dexamethasone. Corticosteroid therapy is an important risk factor for Strongyloides hyperinfection. Challenges associated with the performance of Strongyloides tests, and the poor availability of ...

May 21st, 2021 - In late 2019, an unidentified viral pneumonia was detected in Wuhan, China. Later, it was declared that it was pneumonia due to a new coronavirus. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially called it COVID-19 disease (Xie and Chen 2020). Iverm...

Sep 7th, 2017 - A prospective controlled trial to compare the efficacy and safety of 7-day albendazole, single dose ivermectin, and 2-single dose ivermectin in 72 patients with chronic strongyloidiasis will be conducted at Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.

Mar 4th, 2011 - The general purpose of the project is to analyse soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) in a highly endemic area in northern Argentina with a multidisciplinary approach. The specific objectives are to evaluate the local epidemiology of STH, validate...

Mar 8th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued guidance warning consumers against using the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to treat or preven...

Mar 28th, 2016 - Soin, et al, reported an interesting case of strongyloidiasis in a refugee in their Photo Rounds article, “Rash, diarrhea, and eosinophilia” (J Fam Pract. 2015;64:655-658).

Mar 9th, 2015 - Cutaneous larva migrans (CLM), also known as creeping eruption, is a pruritic serpiginous eruption caused by the migration of animal hookworm larvae through the epidermis. 1,2 The most common parasites are Ancylostoma braziliense (common in dogs an.

Mar 1st, 2015 - THE CASE A 31-year-old man came to an internal medicine clinic because he’d been losing weight over the past 2 years and hadn’t been able to regain any weight despite eating properly. Our patient was born in Ethiopia, but had been living in Canada.

Oct 21st, 2014 - Soil-Transmitted Helminths Strongyloidiasis is a soil-transmitted helminth infection that is concentrated in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, with an estimated prevalence of 50 million infections worldwide.[8] Studies have shown that...