A 57-year-old Samoan man with large B-cell gastric lymphoma presented with fatigue, anemia, and melena. A positron emission tomography (PET) with 18-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) showed no gastric activity but marked hypermetabolic activity in the cecum and ascending colon (Figure 1). Corresponding computed tomography (CT) revealed bowel wall thickening, consistent with infectious or inflammatory...

Background: Immunosuppresion caused by corticosteroids predisposes leprosy patients to Strongyloides stercoralis infection which if untreated can be fatal. Patients acquire infection by walking barefoot in infested soils and can be infected for life because of the auto infective cycle of the parasite. Corticosteroids have precipitated death in more than 60% of disseminated strongyloidiasis case...

The course of Strongyloides stercoralis infection is usually asymptomatic with a low discharge of rhabditoid larva in feces. However, the deleterious effects of alcohol consumption seem to enhance the susceptibility to infection, as shown by a fivefold higher strongyloidiasis frequency in alcoholics than in nonalcoholics. Moreover, the association between S. stercoralis infection and alcoholism...

TO THE EDITOR—We share an interesting clinical case that impacts on the treatment of Strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome. A 64-year-old man was admitted to our intensive care unit for postoperative care after aortic valve replacement. His previous medical history was relevant for giant cell arteritis for which he was using prednisone. Three days postoperatively, severe sepsis with multiorgan ...

The first report to our knowledge, of hyperinfection by Strongyloides stercoralis (HS) and hypereosinophilia, associated to immune suppression by Rituximab (the only drug received for the last one year and 10 months), in a patient with mantle-cell lymphoma (MCL), is presented. The patient has a 3-year history of MCL, and developed two accesses of HS during 2008, including meningitis, pneumonia ...

BACKGROUND Clinical manifestations of Strongyloides stercoralis are variable from asymptomatic to hyperinfection and devastating disseminated infections. Hereby, clinical characteristics of a large series of Iranian strongyloidiasis indigenous cases are described. METHODS The records of people referred to the Helminthological Diagnostic Laboratory of School of Public Health, Tehran University...

Post transplant parasitic infections are a rarity and occur in around 2% of transplant recipients; the intestinal helminth Strongyloides stercoralis (Ss) is found in contaminated soil in hot and humid tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, South and East Asia, and South America. Infective larvae from contaminated soil enter the host venous system from the skin to end up in the lungs and ar...

Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil-transmitted helminth infecting humans that can cause hyperinfection and disseminated disease in the immunocompromised host. This case report describes 56-year-old patient, diagnosed with hepatic metastasis, who was screened for strongyloidiasis by faecal culture. The agar plate culture became positive on third day of incubation, demonstrating characteristic t...