Severe strongyloidiasis in corticosteroid-treated patients: Case series and literature review

Journal of Infection

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-27

  Fardet, Laurence ^a   Généreau, Thierry ^a   Poirot, Jean Louis ^a   Guidet, Bertrand ^a   Kettaneh, Adrien ^a   Cabane, Jean ^a  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Strongyloides stercoralis; Strongyloidiasis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARSENIC; CORTICOSTEROID; INTERFERON; PREDNISONE; TIABENDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG FATALITY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG AUSCULTATION; LUNG INTERSTITIUM; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PULSE RATE; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN EXAMINATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SPUTUM; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRAVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 33845596040     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2006.01.016     Document Type: Article

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