Strongyloidiasis in Transplant Patients

The Sources of Stress in Renal Transplant Patients

Introduction Renal transplant is the best treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease (1). Annually, about 17000 patients receive deceased or living donor transplants, which help them promote health and self-efficacy (1-2). However, despite advances in transplant technology, patients face a number of post-operative challenges, which might lead to stress in patients, includin...

Strongyloidiasis Epidemiology and Treatment Response in Patients with HIV Infection

Surveillance of strongyloidiasis in Spanish in-patients (1998–2014)

BACKGROUND Strongyloides stercoralis is a parasite that causes strongyloidiasis, a neglected tropical disease. S. stercoralis is a soil-transmitted helminth that is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Strongyloidiasis can occur without any symptoms or as a chronic infection characterized by mild, unspecific symptoms such as pruritus, abdominal pain or discomfort...

Invasive enteric infections in hospitalized patients with underlying strongyloidiasis.

Disseminated strongyloidiasis is often associated with enteric bacterial infections. This study was undertaken to determine if enteric organisms caused extraintestinal infections in patients infected with Strongyloides stercoralis but without apparent dissemination. The medical records of hospitalized patients from central Kentucky with strongyloidiasis (1993-2003) were examined to determine th...

Gastrointestinal strongyloidiasis in immunocompromised patients: a case report.

Strongyloides stercoralis is an intestinal nematode, endemic in tropical countries. The parasite has a complex life cycle, causing a long-lived auto infection in hosts. It may remain asymptomatic or with minor symptoms; the dormant carrier state of the illness may persist for a long period of time. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) including Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), comm...