Respiratory hyperinfection with Strongyloides stercoralis in a patient with renal failure

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 573-577

  Rajapurkar, Mohan ^a   Hegde, Umapati ^a   Rokhade, Mahesh ^a   Gang, Sishir ^a   Gohel, Kalpesh ^a  

^a MULJIBHAI PATEL UROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Albendazole; Hyperinfection syndrome; Ivermectin; Nonresolving pneumonia; Strongyloides stercoralis

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFUROXIME; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IVERMECTIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PIPERACILLIN; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TAZOBACTAM;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM STAINING; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAVAGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; VOMITING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; IVERMECTIN; KIDNEY FAILURE; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STEROIDS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 34748898343     PISSN: 17458323     EISSN: 17458331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0598     Document Type: Article

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