Strongyloidiasis--an insight into its global prevalence and management.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Strongyloides stercoralis, an intestinal parasitic nematode, infects more than 100 million people worldwide. Strongyloides are unique in their ability to exist as a free-living and autoinfective cycle. Strongyloidiasis can occur without any symptoms or as a potentially fatal hyperinfection or disseminated infection. The most common risk factors for these complications are immunosuppression caused by corticosteroids and infection with human T-lymphotropic virus or human immunodeficiency virus. Even though the diagnosis of strongyloidiasis is improved by advanced instrumentation techniques in isolated and complicated cases of hyperinfection or dissemination, efficient guidelines for screening the population in epidemiological surveys are lacking.

Methodology and results

SUBMITTER: Puthiyakunnon S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4133206 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature