Fulminant fatal Strongyloides stercoralis infection in a postchemotherapy immunosuppressed cancer patient

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 504-505

  Patil, Poonam ^a,b   Jayshree, R S ^a   Acharya, Rani S ^a   Sridhar, Hema ^a   Babu, Govind ^a   Suresh, T M ^a  

^a KIDWAI MEMORIAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (India)

^b 103 RIFCO Santosh Apartments ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Cancer; Immunosuppression; Parasitic infection; Strongyloides stercoralis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 0032728889     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199911)33:5<504::AID-MPO13>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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