Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: Case report

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-148

  Wirk, Baldeep ^a   Wingard, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Hyperinfection; Invermectin; Strongyloides stercoralis

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; IVERMECTIN; METHOTREXATE; TACROLIMUS; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHILIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LIFE CYCLE; LUNG LAVAGE; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RISK FACTOR; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TRAVEL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; EOSINOPHILIA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; IVERMECTIN; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, ACUTE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SUPERINFECTION;

EID: 64249104456     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2008.00360.x     Document Type: Article

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