Disseminated strongyloidiasis in immunocompromised patients - Report of three cases

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 975-978

  Galimberti, Ricardo ^a   Pontón, Anahí ^a   Zaputovich, Fatima Agüero ^a   Velasquez, Lorna ^a   Galimberti, Gaston ^a   Torre, Ana ^a   Kowalczuk, Alicia ^a  

^a HOSPITAL ITALIANO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; IMIPENEM; IVERMECTIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS; TIABENDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DUODENITIS; DYSPNEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROSCOPY; HEMATOCRIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCELE; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; NAUSEA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PUNCH BIOPSY; PURPURIC LYMPHOMONOCYTIC VASCULITIS; PURPURIC RASH; SKIN BIOPSY; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VASCULITIS; VOMITING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 69249142693     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2009.04082.x     Document Type: Article

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